Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The job involved visiting mining camps , quarries and oilfields all over the world selling explosives and it gave Haslam his first taste of the excitement of travel , something that has remained with him all his life . |
| 2 | The door of the grocer 's shop was flung open with a ‘ crash ’ and a small rotund figure , angry as a bee that has sat on its own sting , buzzed past the rubber merchant and accosted the sedan-chair operator . |
| 3 | The third is a less tangible but no less striking phenomenon , the general feeling for freedom that has come over us all , an understanding heightened by the recent escape of millions of people by 1990 from the miseries of authoritarian rule and command economies . |
| 4 | Australia can not claim that it is unaware of the uncertainty about the legal status of Indonesia 's assertion of jurisdictional authority in East Timor and the off-shore waters , and has relied upon its own determination of legality . |
| 5 | Geoff is married , has a young family and has moved from his former home in West Yorkshire to Barmill . |
| 6 | Bubbly schoolgirl Claire says she 's had enough of the Cinderella lifestyle forced on her by her natural mother and wants to live with her former foster parents . |