Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ships laden with nutmeg or cinnamon , cloves or coriander once battled the Seven Seas to bring home their precious cargo . |
| 2 | The sigh of the waves sounding up that chute only emphasised the genial security of the chamber . |
| 3 | Donaldson was not , however , quite correct in stating that Burn always followed the Vitruvian principle of waiting to be sought . |
| 4 | This process implies that forecasts effectively became the annual budgets . |
| 5 | So much for Barry boasting at school that Rebel only ate the best . |
| 6 | At the city centre slid out of the skin and moved away thought the dense crowds . |
| 7 | Squid and yellowtail then became the main species fished , but throughout the 1960s and 1970s the pattern was repeated as the yellowtail fishery began to show the familiar signs of overfishing , with catches decreasing despite increasing fishing efforts . |
| 8 | Grassland life is much the same the world over , and horses and litopterns independently evolved the same qualities to cope with the problems of grassland life . |
| 9 | It can not be easy to be the partner of a genius , and Constanze certainly made the best of it . |
| 10 | The woman 's father and Jaffray also reached the same rock . |