Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The students not only tore down the separate ‘ Ladies ’ and ‘ Gentlemen ’ notices from the lavatories … but they even painted out the distinction between first floor and second , between second and third and so on : even purely functional classifications of space had to go , just as the watches and clocks had to be discarded in order to free time . |
| 2 | Billeting allocation was frequently chaotic : host families could be hostile ; children might be selected according to their good looks and manners ; in rural areas , farmers often gleefully snapped up the strongest boys and set them to work on the land . |
| 3 | Even though it was high morning , the light was dim and artificial outside as acres of arched roof far above kept out the Canadian weather . |
| 4 | If everybody here just rang up the Foreign Office , rang up their MP , or wrote to the Prime Minister — it 's everybody 's right to do that — and said ‘ What 's happening to John McCarthy ? |
| 5 | Soldiers again briefly took over the national radio station on Dec. 15 to broadcast their demands . |