Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people were cheated into believing they had the highest standard of living in Europe . |
| 2 | In Bejing he met the Chinese President , Yang Shangkun , the Prime Minister , Li Peng , and other senior officials . |
| 3 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
| 4 | In the attainment targets for reading we included the following for levels 8 , 9 and 10 : ‘ Read a range of poetry , fiction , literary non-fiction and drama , including works written before the twentieth century and works from different cultures . ’ |
| 5 | And in the moment that she laid herself open to dying she heard the whispery voices of the wild beasts in the wilderness : |
| 6 | On graduating he joined the Geological Survey in 1875 , working in the Teesdale and Cheviot districts until 1884 , when he was posted to the Survey 's Edinburgh office . |
| 7 | Warm scents rose from a honeysuckle hedge at Monboddo , the much-changed home of a man who , according to Sir Walter Scott , went out at night with a candle to inspect his turnips growing in the fields ; who , hating to sit behind a horse 's backside , would not travel in a carriage and therefore — he was in his eighties — rode to London on horseback ; who took a cold bath every day and damaged his children 's health by insisting they did the same ; and who , when in residence at Edinburgh , gave dinner parties at which his wine-flagons were wreathed in garlands of roses . |