Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | It was swollen with the heavy rain that had fallen during the last few days , and it looked fierce and dark . |
2 | Mr Prescott , who was given a rousing reception after his election to Labour 's national executive earlier this week , condemned Paul Channon , the former Secretary of State for Transport , for refusing to accept that government policies had played a part in the series of transport disasters that had occured over the last two years . |
3 | The second and stronger tendency is a conservative nationalism that views the communist era as a Soviet-imposed interruption of a national democratic tradition that had flourished before the second world war . |
4 | In these circumstances , many of the different philosophical perspectives that had flourished in the nineteenth century were able to update themselves and remain viable in the new age of professional specialization . |
5 | In the silence of his shelter he was finally letting the true sorrow he felt for all that had happened in the last months come into him , and he was beginning to grieve . |
6 | She was wearing a halter dress the colour of flame that had wilted in the first hour . |
7 | My husband was going out to Qatar , that pear drop of moonscape pitted with rich oases and edged with ancient trading posts , the Emirate that had refused at the last moment to join Sheikh Zayed 's dream of unity . |
8 | It was this message which went out in the eighteenth century , and became enshrined in the First Amendment to the American Constitution . |
9 | These incursions were , however , small-scale and localised compared with the first major upheaval in the life of Tudor Sussex , the Reformation . |
10 | Whitely was all he knew and had known for the last sixteen years . |
11 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |