Example sentences of "[art] [noun] was [v-ing] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 DROPPING your aitches is something of a crime if My Fair Lady is anything to go by , and the game that her fair ladyship the Queen was playing in last week 's Echo Memories had indeed committed that crime .
2 Late May , the sun was returning at last , but it was still cold .
3 It was clearly a case of arson , but the motive was puzzling at first .
4 The beast was terrifying at first but after a while you realised he was a big softie underneath .
5 The cannabis was working at last .
6 The lack of apparent activity in the factory was startling at first , but not when you remember that Caterham makes as much money in a year as General Motors does in half an hour .
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