Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] [vb past] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was seven the boy almost died of typhoid . |
| 2 | She turned and walked the long clicking walk down the floor ( the shop strangely quenched of sound and movement ) , tugged back hard on the glass door and with a shake of shiny hair had passed into the random straggle of the street . |
| 3 | Twenty months later , the patient again complained of pain in the right upper abdomen . |
| 4 | In producing national network programmes ( the network basically consisted of telegraph wires stretching some 5,000 miles from Vancouver , on the Pacific to Halifax , Nova Scotia on the Atlantic coast ) we soon became familiar with the five time-zones across the country . |
| 5 | In April 1102 the pope still spoke of homage and investiture in equally uncompromising terms , but by the end of the year a change of emphasis is observable . |