Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare was told she was in for a long stay in bed , and Mother moved in a divan to sleep next to her . |
| 2 | As the Earl lay close to death , they called in a clergyman to rid 16th Century Althorp House of the phantom . |
| 3 | After a long breakfast , we went into the Town to buy last minute chocolates for our families before visiting the Ferris wheel for a champagne meal overlooking the entire city . |
| 4 | Conway looked at the woman sitting next to him . |
| 5 | That it impinged as a call to slaughter first and foremost seems only too clear ; for the first result of the preaching of the crusade was a fearful massacre of the one species of ‘ infidel ’ within easy reach . |
| 6 | But it emerged after an emergency meeting last night that parliament and government might stave off the crisis by agreeing a compromise to leave the economic reform programme intact . |