Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the defenders seemed to get up front from time to time . |
| 2 | Paul told police he had no idea why he and his friend had gone out armed with the bat . |
| 3 | When I was there last year it cost only £12 : the rate had gone down due to the Gulf war and the fear of AIDS . |
| 4 | Post and Telecom 's convincing start to the season had fizzled out due to injury . |
| 5 | No doubt Georgiana began picking up Spanish from our numerous visits to Majorca . |
| 6 | A sole practitioner , Mark Ledger , was brought in to head up the Salisbury office , which Ms Harris had set up prior to the merger ; the new firm set up an insolvency department under Geoffrey Morgan ; and 18 months later another sole practitioner , Philip Parmenter , was brought in to set up another office in Witney , Oxfordshire . |
| 7 | Sally Varna stepped out of her bath , reluctant to leave the froth of delicately scented bubbles , reached for one of the enormous pink towels the maid had laid out ready for her and wrapped herself in it . |
| 8 | The news comes less than a month after the release of his latest acclaimed opus , ‘ Jehovakill ’ , and the announcement that three Town & Country club shows had sold out prior to the tour being pulled . |
| 9 | The stains around the rivet had shown up positive in the test for human blood . |