Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] [subord] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a mini-rebellion about that just after the Police Strike and then they allowed policemen to go in for half an hour 's and eat breakfast . |
| 2 | Normally , I get my flowers on Oxford Street just after 7.0 p.m. when the barrowboys have knocked off and gone to the pub , leaving loads of blooms for the Westminster Council rubbish collectors later on . |
| 3 | ‘ What an idiot ! ’ cried Pétain , on learning at Verdun that a battalion commander , having received the order of alert just as the rations arrived , had ordered his men to depart forthwith on empty stomachs ; ‘ He does n't deserve to be a corporal . ’ |
| 4 | After struggling through umpteen games of blackjack , I would taxi home and sleep till 8 a.m. when the boys awoke . |
| 5 | At 2.00 p.m. as the doors opened before the flood of Medau girls surging through , the 1979 reunion was once again set in motion ; one thousand tickets sold and every one being used . |