Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Two bullets from a gun fired in Amsterdam ; Ray Doyle dying ; and we would have had Menni Latowa , which would have stopped all this , if we had n't decided to bring him in too late . ’ |
| 2 | The flow of supplies to Iraqi troops in Kuwait , he said , had been cut from the 20,000 tons per day needed to support them to only 2,000 tons . |
| 3 | Which means you 've got to make it for about twelve or fourteen . |
| 4 | She should not be encouraged to share it with too many people . |
| 5 | sort of well we ca n't pay this that and the other and the thing that really gets me and , and , you know , I , I 've tried to reason it through so many times but top er top of these mums ' sort of shopping list is these disposable nappies |
| 6 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
| 7 | Many new cars are now capable of using unleaded petrol and most modern cars can be altered to take it at very little expense with no loss of performance . |
| 8 | I 'm contracted to tutor you for so many hours a day , and I 'm afraid I must insist on fulfilling my contract . ’ |