Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her investments provided her with an annual income of well over a million dollars , in addition to the trusts and investments left to her directly by her husband . |
| 2 | Worse still , the embassy refugees manoeuvred him into an impossible corner . |
| 3 | Lucy spent just three days in intensive care before doctors moved her to an ordinary ward at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital . |
| 4 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 5 | Placards around the Dundee plant gates depicted him as an alien enemy from south of the border . |
| 6 | The patterning of fine wrinkles reminded me of an aerial photo of Easter Island . |
| 7 | While O'Neill and his supporters represented that visit as the Republic s de facto recognition that the North did exist as a separate entity and that doing necessary economic business with the North meant the Republic attenuating its claims to the territory of Ulster , the conservative Protestants saw it as an horrendous betrayal of the history and sacrifice of Ulster Protestants . |
| 8 | She had looked up ; she had looked around ; the frescos left her with an abiding sense of hopelessness , reinforced by the pastor 's impotent testimony . |
| 9 | His guardian uncles intended him for an academic career , and his brother Christopher , presumably of similar intelligence and attainment , later became Master of Trinity . |
| 10 | The thieves stole it from an industrial estate at Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire , where Robin Macdonald runs a small bakery . |