Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] in the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 2 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 3 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 4 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
| 5 | This last item did much to restore the confidence that seemed to have deserted me in the previous few months . |
| 6 | Third , Raven has signed it in a position that suggests ownership ( i.e ; on the back ) ; if he were claiming authorship he would surely have signed it in the bottom right-hand corner in the normal way . |