Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb pp] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 2 | Taff , the mortar team , and all the others who were present one day and gone the next , some to hospital in England , and others to a shallow grave here in Normandy . |
| 3 | The whole family liked to be heard , as if they wanted people to know they were alive in a world where young and old alike were here one day and gone the next . |
| 4 | ‘ In my occupation the people you meet tend to be here one day and gone the next — or I am , since I work freelance . |
| 5 | It 's just a man failing to reappear , that 's all — now you see him , now you do n't that 's the only thing that 's real : here one minute and gone the next and never coming back — an exit , unobtrusive and unannounced , a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on , until , finally , it is heavy with death . |
| 6 | ‘ It makes you realise your life can be here one minute and gone the next , ’ Alison told her mum in a trans-Atlantic telephone call . |
| 7 | Those who accepted his commandments were to be judged in punctilious accordance with the law , whereas the ignorant savage in the darkened jungle who could not possibly have known the light would be treated with gentleness and given a second chance . |
| 8 | Instead , they drove south , down the western side of the estuary , to a pull-in at the end of a lane , whence Mossop and Heather had walked down to the river 's edge and taken the third photograph . |
| 9 | In September the epidemic of Spanish influenza that devastated Europe , and killed more people than the war , reached Abyssinia ; there it killed three of the five doctors in the country and incapacitated a fourth . |
| 10 | In last month 's issue , The Art Newspaper published the list of artists who have been included in this ambitious survey and identified a second list of candidates whom Rosenthal and Joachimedes had decided to ignore . |