Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood there beside him , acknowledging the marvellous presence of the terns , and as she did so the thought came to her that striped shirt , and pink tie , and Julia of the leather skirt , presumably passed them by five days a week without knowing that they did so . |
| 2 | The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic . |
| 3 | They had a large box of miscellaneous bit and pieces of sticky tape and straws and wood and drawing pins and all sorts of things , and we essentially just left them for two weeks to do this — and they came up with some superb ideas . |
| 4 | Sir Thomas More owned it for two years , although he probably never lived there . |
| 5 | The tug refloated the vessel , towed her to a sheltered anchorage where she was made fit for the tow to Hong Kong , and thereafter towed her for four days to docks in Hong Kong . |
| 6 | An X-ray later condemned me to six months away from this crazy pastime . |
| 7 | Mr Copeland also jailed him for three months for possessing Ecstasy , three months for possessing amphetamines , six months for having Ecstasy with intent to supply and three months for having amphetamines with intent to supply . |
| 8 | Much of the land is a massive plain but the mission 's route also took it across 500 miles of the arid , stony desolation of the Gobi Desert , which was inhabited by hostile nomadic Mongol tribes . |
| 9 | Sir David English probably disliked it for two reasons . |
| 10 | Dennis shook his head , then tapped it with two fingers . |
| 11 | The stability of the building was also queried and Mr. Fair ‘ absolutely guaranteed it for 200 years ! ’ |