Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 2 | ‘ Might she not have had it on crooked ? ’ |
| 3 | Your interest in works like the B minor Mass of Bach , Beethoven 's Missa Solemnis , and such semi-sacred works as the Bruckner Fifth Symphony was said not to have endeared you to certain Party officials . |
| 4 | My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good ! |
| 5 | Perhaps a Labour government would have spent even more : it would certainly have spent it in different ways . |
| 6 | Ælfheah 's cult may therefore have presented him with considerable problems , and it is unlikely to be coincidence that the bishopric of London is known to have suffered at his hands . |