Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | On the west , they said , the waves had ranged a hundred feet high up the cliffs , scouring the bird-ledges clean and breaking through bridges and tunnels of rock where no gap had existed before . |
2 | ( The only other case in this category where the charges were dropped or the defendants acquitted involved a 47-year-old police sergeant accused of having unlawful sex with his babysitter , but the charges were dropped after the prosecution heard that the pair were now married . ) |
3 | Within two weeks the Allies had put a million men into France . |
4 | If the explosions had happened a few weeks later , the Hoffmans would have been living somewhere else . |
5 | Once folks had printed a few pages of closely spaced text , the next logical step was to print lots of pages of giant words announcing to the world that Fred and Wilma had just got married , or that winkles were on special offer at only ten bob a pound . |