Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has long thick hair and tried drying it with three different dryers . |
| 2 | They were given some money , and told to divide it into two accounts , one ‘ private ’ , one ‘ public ’ . |
| 3 | The tsar was well aware that the legislation left much to be desired and delayed publishing it until 5 March , the first day of Lent : " alarmed by the prospect of riot , " wrote an admittedly hostile contemporary , " he hesitated a long time before choosing a day for promulgating the sham freedom and eventually chose the day when it was least of all expected " . |
| 4 | The decision came after a special tribunal in Peshawar had found Gilani guilty on April 24 of the misappropriation of public funds , and had disqualified him for seven years from a seat in the National Assembly . |
| 5 | Chatichai , who had previously removed three parties from his ruling coalition and had replaced them with two new members , had been under pressure for some time from the military and the media to carry out an extensive reshuffle in order to cleanse his government of allegedly corrupt elements . |
| 6 | Gran had noticed it three evenings ago , when they were getting the breakfast things ready , and had pushed it behind one of the geraniums as if she did n't like the sight of it . |
| 7 | British merchant banks had failed to see the enormous unfulfilled potential in Habitat and tended to regard it as one of those here-today , gone-tomorrow phenomena . |