Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] by a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
| 2 | Some farmers cured their own bacon but most of the curing was done commercially by a few firms established for the purpose . |
| 3 | The foreword is written jointly by a former chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and a former Under secretary of the Navy . |
| 4 | ( There is another argument , nowadays timidly advanced only by a few academics of the old hair-shirt tendency , that the white man has fixed the game , making it almost impossible for the others to get in . ) |
| 5 | His face was flat and wide , clean , the skin marked only by a few freckles on the right cheek , the eyes set far apart and shallow in their sockets . |
| 6 | Davies , once described fondly by a former captain of Wasps , Alan Black , as the clown prince of rugby , said enigmatically afterwards that every dog had his day . |