Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] [noun] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British missionaries started arriving in the early 1800s and convinced Fijians that they should wear clothes . |
| 2 | She was with a stranger and told friends that she intended to stay at the site as long as possible and then possibly go to Portsmouth . |
| 3 | North American house wrens favour sloughed snake skins and the eider duck grows special downy feathers on its own breast which it plucks off with its beak to produce a soft and warming blanket that none of man 's synthetic materials can equal . |
| 4 | Instead he was provoked , in a letter , into one of the most illuminating and betraying comments that he ever made , on Eliot , Williams and himself : |
| 5 | ‘ Brothers , let us stand here resolute and show Order that we are united in opposition ! |
| 6 | ‘ And I continue briskly with my artistic career , Breaking Out at weekends it must be admitted — but in the main being the severe and collected Minton that you have come to expect . ’ |
| 7 | He started well by making it clear to a shocked and protesting Curzon that he could not again be Foreign Secretary . |