Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King Edward bent to pick it up amid suggestive laughter , declaring ‘ shame on him who thinks evil of it ’ , and prophesying that he would make it the most sought-after badge of honour in Britain . |
| 2 | There was a pause , and the Oak seemed to study him afresh with solemn , scholarly eyes . |
| 3 | At first these services were administered by ad hoc bodies but legislation covering England and Wales in 1888 and 1894 began to draw them together into modern units of local government . |
| 4 | A cool shower managed to sharpen her up to normal . |
| 5 | But then , having thrown away the chance of greater equality , women gradually proceeded to win it back by devious ways until by 1960 there had been a stealthy but profound erosion of male dominance with hardly a male being yet aware of it . |
| 6 | The er other thing about our crew was that er one time there , I guess after was the only one that got back and they , they had to get him back on flying service . |
| 7 | But , as other African countries have discovered , African insurance companies were too small to carry major risks and had to lay them off with foreign re-insurers . |
| 8 | It was partly for shame after all the talk and the things that the papers said , but as well as that they wanted to cut him off for good . ’ |