Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brazilian panelinhas are informal groups made up of a number of dyadic contracts , that is , people linked by personal ties — family , kin , friends — but the members are selected according to their occupation . |
| 2 | But Eliot emphasized that Johnson , unaware that such distinctions grew out of a difference in ritual , had been ignorant of their importance for the Greeks . |
| 3 | The irregular payments arose out of a disagreement between the TEC and senior civil servants over the interpretation of a section of the TEC 's operating agreement . |
| 4 | The men operating the windlass for the portcullis cheered Burun as he rode past and , as soon as they gave tongue , more men came out of a gate-house and joined in . |
| 5 | A group of Dutch tourists swarmed out of a restaurant behind Rain and Oliver and the pedlar lost ground . |