Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the April referendum applied only to savings banks . |
| 2 | Twenty years of police service had convinced him that Murphy 's law applied especially to police operations — no matter how meticulously they were planned , if it were remotely possible for something to fuck up , then it would ! |
| 3 | Usually they drew heavily on blues traditions . |
| 4 | Jews allowed to keep pets ; budgies and puppies , etc. , doled out at police stations ; Jews weeping with gratitude as they take their new playmates home . |
| 5 | A WOULD-BE Royal Marine hit out at police officers as they tried to arrest him , a court heard . |
| 6 | Case records were examined and one hundred individual interviews , divided equally between police officers and social workers involved in the sample , were carried out . |
| 7 | She wished she knew more about police procedures . |
| 8 | ‘ Broad ’ money refers to money held both for transactions purposes and as a form of saving . |
| 9 | Don Regan , the blustering ex-Wall Street chief of staff , had attended the crucial meetings of the previous August and September ; but he had apparently spent the September meeting more bothered by McFarlane 's pronunciation of ‘ bona fides ’ as ‘ bonerfydies ’ than by anything he picked up about weapons shipments . |