Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relegation-threatened Inverleith and Stepps clash , with the odds appearing to favour Inverleith , but , as Kelburne found out to their cost last week , there are no pushovers in the lower half of the table . |
| 2 | It was round two in a battle which broke out after their wedding last May . |
| 3 | There followed a period of ten years of overwork and stagnant promotion , but his career took off with his promotion first to assistant secretary and then to be the chairman of the Prison Commission ( 1932–9 ) . |
| 4 | She thought back to his anger last night . |
| 5 | Hester , of Chiswick , west London , left her 12-year-old son Thomas in California when she split up with her husband last year and she and her other child Katy , 18 , spent a miserable first Christmas back in England . |
| 6 | Mr Neilsen set out on his campaign last year , after his wife had been approached by a curbcrawler . |