Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has pulled back several miles . |
| 2 | AN ESSEX health promotion unit has lined up several schemes to encourage smokers to take their final puff on national No Smoking Day on March 10 . |
| 3 | For instance , a sales pitch claiming that a major discovery has been made in the North Sea sounds suspect to the investor who has lost out several times in the past . |
| 4 | Forty minutes later , having checked out several vehicles Which were unknown to us , the teams re-entered the base . |
| 5 | He would admit , when brought to it , that the bulldog policies of this Niccolò had achieved what he himself , had he cared , could have brought about several years ago , with some small application . |
| 6 | The squad had picked up several copies from a local newsagent : would I like one ? |
| 7 | Here , a vast decaying tree whose roots were eaten away from the inside had begun to lean backwards as if longing to sit down , and a massive , arthritic branch had elbowed out several stones from the top of the wall against which it now gratefully rested . |
| 8 | Dr Spock 's Baby And Child Care was published first in the United States in 1947 and in Britain in 1955 and there were mothers who boasted they had worn out several copies . |
| 9 | Like most new machines , everything was a tight fit and by the time we had the glider rigged , we had worn out several people with the sheer weight of the wings . |
| 10 | Sam spent the next morning poking his broom everywhere it was wanted and a few places it was n't until he had swept up several titbits of very interesting information . |
| 11 | He said relationships between inspectors and schools have broken down several times . |
| 12 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 13 | before that it had been done in eighty one , eighty two , eighty four , eighty six , eighty eight and ninety , so curiously now , it 's it 's missed out several years , |
| 14 | We sorted all the papers I brought from ex employers and quite a lot of other stuff too , and I have put out several sackfuls of old paper and so on … |
| 15 | The more militant among them have formed a bakers ' commando and have blown up several stores belonging to their ‘ industrial ’ enemies . |