Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old tombstones provided her with that lit match to the powder trail of her imagination . |
| 2 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 3 | ‘ Around 80 Subject Assessors visited us during that fortnight , and every module was looked at . |
| 4 | A few hours earlier Mrs Valerie Williams was robbed of her firm 's wages on a quite road in South Wales when masked men overtook her in this stolen car and forced her to stop and then rammed her vehicle from behind with another car . |
| 5 | Their neat bottoms reminded me of those of failed bullfighters . |
| 6 | The corner that Japan had been backed into by economic sanctions left her with little alternative . |
| 7 | Subsequent parliamentary enquiries into improper electoral practices involved him in some censure and this enabled Disraeli , who never liked him , to make fresh arrangements for the management of the party in opposition . |
| 8 | On my final day at Berkeley , my fourth-form pupils presented me with some flowers and a small mounted copy of Claude Lorrain 's ‘ Hagar and the Angel ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ You and your bloody mates fingered me for those three other burglaries . |
| 10 | The Soviet authorities presented it to those in the Royal Navy and merchant service who operated in Russian waters during the war . |