Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother had by now recognized her favourite foods and deliberately offered her one new food every day in order to increase the range of foods she would try . |
| 2 | ‘ But if they only looked at me coldly , and whispered behind their hands about me , and then left me one by one ? ’ |
| 3 | Etienne Saqr , who used the name Abu Arz , the Father of the Cedars ’ — one of the more psychopathic of the minor Christian militia leaders — commanded a group which specialised in cruelty , whose men tied Palestinian prisoners to the backs of taxis and then dragged them 12 miles up the motorway to Jounieh . |
| 4 | His passenger helped pull him out and then carried him two miles away across fields from the accident scene . |
| 5 | Cleveland councillors agreed to try to improve relations with British Rail and then criticised it five minutes later . |
| 6 | Fear slowed his thoughts , and grudgingly granted him one consolation : at this speed they must come out at the bottom a damn sight faster than they went through at the top . |