Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [subord] [pron] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has romped in with profits of £5m since it was acquired from the Virgin airlines boss in June and should make more than Pounds 40m to £50m in the full year . |
| 2 | Philip Raper , 48 , was ordered to pay barmaid Christine Charlton compensation of £75 after she was left with bruising and swelling to her head . |
| 3 | In the past two years it has grown by more than 35 per cent , and anyone who put in £3,000 when it was launched , in April 1988 , will have seen their investment swell to £4,267 . |
| 4 | She turned round to sec if he was laughing at one of the postcards but he was laughing at her . |
| 5 | Chapman drove at 50 to 60mph before he was stopped by a police patrol car . |
| 6 | There were four bids of 4,000gns and over with the two-year-old Zhaab from TJ Harding of Hardhurst , Walton , Brampton , making the second top figure of the day at 4,400gns when he was snapped up by J Tully of Bowenhill , Teviothead , Hawick . |
| 7 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |