Example sentences of "[subord] the [noun] [vb past] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police stated that although the troubles appeared at first to be spontaneous , both left- and right-wing extremists , Islamic fundamentalists and drug dealers had soon moved in . |
| 2 | Although the party had at first favoured the maintenance of two German states the Jan. 12-14 conference affirmed its policy goal to be " a united Germany … with the consent of our neighbours " . |
| 3 | When the light came they mustered what was left to them , and knew without many words spoken , even when the storm subsided at last into mere mist and drizzle , that they could not advance further . |
| 4 | When the council re-convened on 3rd June , the arrival of the anti-treaty Nez Perce — led by Old Joseph and his son , Big Thunder , Eagle from the Light , Three Feathers , Red Owl and White Bird — had swelled the Indian ranks to 3000 . |
| 5 | When the secretary had at last left them , she lay back in her chair and gave a long sigh of exasperation . |
| 6 | BLACKPOOL : A bit of a cheer went up when the news came through last week in Brighton of the Government 's humiliation at the hands of the Bundesbank . |
| 7 | When a frottola is through-composed under textual pressure , and aerated and enlivened by polyphonic passages , it is indistinguishable in musical style from the earlier madrigal , particularly as the madrigal tended at first to cling to the note against-note style with a melodically more important highest part . |