Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of Taiwanese rallied yesterday to mark the 10th anniversary of an anti-government riot and demand the release of dissidents involved in the 1979 incident . |
| 2 | He caught a train from Paddington to Reading , arrived there to find the last train to Goring and Streatley had gone , and , after a considerable wait , got a minicab . |
| 3 | His total of 275 was 13 under par , four outside the record , and he also failed narrowly to become the first man to score in the 60s in every round . |
| 4 | To his right the hill rose up above where he stood , then fell again to meet the next turn of the river . |
| 5 | The United Kingdom chose dutifully to implement the Fourth Directive on Company Accounts without waiting , as some other member States did , for the adoption of the Seventh Directive on Group Accounts . |
| 6 | Two of a series of five stamps issued today to mark the 14th World Orchid Conference depict Papua and New Guinea orchids Dendrobium hellwigianum , on the 18p stamp , and Dendrobium vexillarius on the 39p stamp , that Paddy Woods has spent 30 years investigating . |
| 7 | This was followed by a three-year trial period for successful candidates , who had then to sit a second examination ( examen de classement ) . |
| 8 | When he turned up , the traveller was thus not allowed to travel on his booked flight and had instead to travel the next day . |