Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 16 year old who spoke at a Young Enterprise presentation admitted that he was not much of a public speaker and that he had become disaffected with school where he had ‘ failed ’ regularly . |
| 2 | On the whole , however , it was the powerful who travelled in the Carolingian world , following the economic and political requirements of the seasons : winter would be spent at a home-base , whereas in summer men took the road when summoned to assembly and/or campaign . |
| 3 | At the end of a high scoring quiz it was Frazers Select who finished in the top spot . |
| 4 | A COP-A-GRAM who stripped in a busy railway station has escaped prosecution . |
| 5 | Here was an Anglo-Catholic who insisted on the apostolic succession of bishops , and thought intercommunion between the Churches , before a proper union , to be wrong , and yet refused to unchurch the Protestant Churches . |
| 6 | Instead wrong-doers , or even the mischievous who came under the stern eye of the chief dresser , were sent off home to their parents , and like-as-not , a strapping . |
| 7 | One day they decided to visit their best friends , the three billy-goats Gruff who lived over the rickety bridge . |