Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that . |
| 2 | Patients 101 and 102 died at the ages of 72 and 70 years with no known features of FAP and no cancer . |
| 3 | Mum and Dad and six kids , there was four in one bedroom , me sister , me and her my Me two sisters in the slept in in a double bed in me Mam 's bedroom and we four lads slept in the back bedroom w w whi which was just just big enough to get a double bed in , as you can see , and there was two that slept at the top , and two slept at the bottom . |
| 4 | The Governor of Caracas , Antonio Ledezma , reported that 100 prisoners had been killed and 200 injured at the Catia prison in western Caracas , after troops quashed a mass escape attempt sparked by the coup . |
| 5 | The Doctor bought some roast chestnuts and both nibbled at the snack . |