Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The absence of noise placed it happily in the private sector . |
| 2 | An incessant internal monologue occupied her most of the morning , during which , by turns , she tried to convince herself that Fen 's effect on her was all in her imagination or berated herself for being fickle . |
| 3 | When a new Arab-Israeli crisis broke out in May 1967 , the General linked it closely to the war in Asia and predicted to Harold Wilson that the world might well be at war by September . |
| 4 | But apparently its owner regarded it simply as a vegetable patch , for there were no flowers to be seen . |
| 5 | The Doctor fixed him squarely with a look that had frozen the hearts of evil intelligences the universe over . |
| 6 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 7 | The cap fixed him securely to the board , with his airborne body trembling behind him like the handle of a plunged dagger . |
| 8 | The porter planted himself firmly in the aperture , presumably in case they changed their minds . |