Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The sense of relief that the Danes had ‘ let us all painlessly off the Maastricht hook ’ was immediately replaced by a despondency at the Government 's response .
2 While they glared at each other he recalled that Carrie had said something similar earlier in the day .
3 his foreign and done it , done it all legally at the hotel and so on
4 The cream stucco on the houses — the imposing pillared porches with their black-and-white tiled steps ; she felt as if she had seen it all before in a dream .
5 But the company , now run by Joe 's son , Sir Anthony Bamford ( above ) , has seen it all before in the early '80s .
6 Although the government managed to survive a no confidence vote in the Knesset on Jan. 27 , Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir had made it clear shortly after the departure of Tehiya and Moledet that he favoured holding an early general election ( elections were due to be held before November 1992 ) .
7 I , I noticed too , that he has n't got it straight like over the
8 Someone had called him this more as an insult than a compliment but Francis took a liking to it and you will find salamanders carved all over his palaces .
9 If the 1959 Act had proved itself suitable only for the control of sexual depictions or descriptions where the question was one of manners rather than morals , then the recommendation of the Commission might have been acceptable , since sex between consenting adults in private was no longer a matter for the British criminal law .
10 ‘ Other firms in other parts of the country have tried this and have found it successful both as a social event and as a promotion . ’
11 Education was probably a larger issue in the 1964 general election than ever before ( or , it need hardly be added , since ) : the national opinion polls placed it second only to the cost of living .
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