Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They assumed that their arrests had been a political move and began to suspect that their continued detention had equally a political motive . |
| 2 | The Midlands has the greatest concentration of motorways in the country — 350 miles which last year witnessed nearly a thousand serious or fatal accidents , |
| 3 | It had been built earlier in the century , and by 1794 was the home of Henry Poole 's uncle , Thomas Poole the elder , an ‘ irritable , arbitrary old man ’ whose bad temper owed only a little to his sufferings from the gout . |
| 4 | There was a rustling beside Masklin and his Floridian co-rider pushed aside a feather . |
| 5 | Your dear brother left quite a few problems behind when he failed to take that corner . |