Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seemed to me the greatest achievement of the afternoon ; some people do n't even learn to think for themselves at university . |
| 2 | This happened despite whatever the countries ' constitutions may have said about freedom of speech . |
| 3 | Indeed the sixth GCC summit held in Muscat in November 1985 took upon itself the task of ending the war the following year . |
| 4 | About 350 million years ago , some appeared in which the sexual generation no longer grew flat on the ground , but up in the crowns of the trees . |
| 5 | All were shabby ; all had about them the cleanliness of icy well-water , spoiled and fetid with the reek of the city , that nothing but fire could dispel . |