Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The English used it as a convenient base for raids into the Scots East and Middle Marches , and as a permanent threat , its strong position on the rocky spine at the junction of the two rivers making it a very difficult nut to crack . |
2 | They are old enough to remember the early days of independence , when the departing British pushed them towards a pan-Caribbean federation of English-speakers ; but the people of Jamaica , the largest potential member ( with 2.5m people now ) , killed that by voting against it in a referendum . |
3 | Never quite stationary , the mag-lev decanted her on a windy platform and whined away into the cavernous tunnel . |
4 | He then heard my earnest indefatigable prayers and by a train of events the most impossible and unexpected released me from the cruel bondage in which the enemy of my soul had bound me . |
5 | United won it in the second half . |
6 | William Swainson in particular congratulated him in an enthusiastic letter , written from his house in St Alban 's : |