Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was most willingly rescued and brought down manually the four flights of stairs . |
| 2 | The Dragoons closest to the Prussians immediately turned and galloped back up the slope towards their comrades . |
| 3 | There were some valid defences , particularly the poor state of most of the pitches and the injuries to Gatting ( having returned from getting his nose repaired he promptly had a thumb broken and played in only the final Test ) , but some of the criticisms were very valid , too . |
| 4 | The upvc comes in planks , in sizes similar to timber , and can be cut , nailed and screwed in much the same way . |
| 5 | It seems to me that he was waylaid and killed round about a quarter or half of the hour past six . |
| 6 | The scale on which Pound was working was not clear even to the poet himself ; so that the eleven cantos which he originally designated as ‘ preparation of the palette ’ are now by responsible commentators considerably extended — to the extent that the first thirty cantos , which are all that the twenties knew of the poem ( A Draft of XVI Cantos ( Paris , June 1925 ) ; A Draft often Cantos 17–27 ( 100 copies , September 1928 ) ; and A Draft of XXX Cantos ( 210 copies , August 1930 ) ) , are now often regarded as laying out no the painter 's palette the hues that only in subsequent cantos would be combined to polemical and imaginative purpose . |