Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked up the wide , white steps and gently pushed it open . |
| 2 | Primaflora took the kerchief and drew it over her cheeks and then held it taut , staring at the damp blotches . |
| 3 | For example , in fifteen fifty seven/eight , when Queen Mary lost Calais to the French , the income of the town corporation doubled in that year from three hundred pounds to six hundred , and that 's entirely because they pulled in awful lot of French boats and then charged them all a lot of ransom money before they sent them back to France . |
| 4 | For example , in fifteen fifty-seven , eight , when Queen Mary lost Calais to the French , the income of the town corporation doubled in that year from three hundreds pounds to six hundred and that 's entirely because they pulled in an awful lot of French boats and then charged them all a lot of ransom money before they sent them back to France . |
| 5 | Etienne Saqr , who used the name Abu Arz , the Father of the Cedars ’ — one of the more psychopathic of the minor Christian militia leaders — commanded a group which specialised in cruelty , whose men tied Palestinian prisoners to the backs of taxis and then dragged them 12 miles up the motorway to Jounieh . |
| 6 | Her mother had by now recognized her favourite foods and deliberately offered her one new food every day in order to increase the range of foods she would try . |
| 7 | Scoular took up bowls and probably scared them half to death after his wife , Joyce , became a Welsh international . |