Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] and [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upstairs Rachaela put on a tape of Brahms and laid out some leaves of lettuce and slices of tomato , a cold chicken leg from the deli . |
| 2 | Somebody said that it was a colder day than any we had morning I read Houghton 's Life of Keats and copied out some passages from Keats ' letters . |
| 3 | It was the same idea of the Empire as a patrimony , or an estate , the source of a livelihood for the mothercountry , to which Chamberlain had appealed : ‘ I know how our forefathers … bore themselves bravely in the titanic strife with Napoleon and came out victorious . |
| 4 | This ca n't be good for him , thought Denis , and he remembered the story he had read of an old man in England , although younger than Uncle Mick was now , who lined up to receive the very first old age pension ever issued in England and dropped down dead as soon as his money was passed over the counter to him . |
| 5 | We carried troops dropped them off in Italy and picked up German prisoners of war and Yugoslav refugees to take to Port Said . |
| 6 | In 1863 he moved to Singapore and set up another , much larger studio . |
| 7 | He retreated to Highgrove and took out some of his frustration on the soil and the polo field . |
| 8 | Both King Robert II ( 1371 – 90 ) and his son Robert III ( 1390 – 1406 ) spent time at Rothesay and carried out minor building works on it . |
| 9 | The tented village was far larger than the one assembled for The Open at Troon and stretched over some 10 acres on the site . |
| 10 | All had been recruited by Elaine and gave up one Sunday afternoon to complete the circular route around Kilmarnock for which they were sponsored . |