Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adj] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they are a form of money they have often been concealed for safe-keeping in hoards , and such careful burial has contributed to the excellent state of preservation today of so many objects made hundreds of years ago . |
| 2 | The monsters are cloned from genetic material extracted by scientists from insects trapped millions of years ago . |
| 3 | Guests included 8 past presidents as far back as Roger Mansfield ( 1960–61 ) . |
| 4 | The bed , with its cream lace counterpane , was huge and comfortable , and the antique wardrobe , original fireplace and generous sofas piled high with cushions immediately made us feel at home . |
| 5 | SIX holidaymakers aimed high for Christmas yesterday when they climbed 3,500ft up a mountain . |
| 6 | Flames leapt hundreds of feet high , illuminating the jagged edges of the blocks . |
| 7 | Second , its members appeared immune from detection regardless of the outrage . |
| 8 | The centre of Manchester was sealed off as police shepherded thousands of workers away from their city offices . |
| 9 | I wonder what travellers did hundreds of years ago when there were no proper roads and no streetlights or signposts ? ’ |
| 10 | Peons made sacrificial meat and the men smelt this on Gomez so that his command of them was tentative . |
| 11 | That We must remember that 300 years ago British slavers dragged millions of Africans halfway round the world to work on British sugar plantations in the Caribbean ? |
| 12 | A FORMER miner who armed himself with a toy gun to protest against pit closures walked free from court yesterday . |
| 13 | The shares rose 4 to 254p yesterday . |
| 14 | With the City looking for £14m profits next year , rising to £20m in 1993 , the shares rose 40 to 750p yesterday . |
| 15 | That must be something nomes learnt hundreds of years ago , in this place full of foxes and rushing things and a hundred nasty ways to die . |
| 16 | The shares fell 11 to 259p yesterday , cutting the multiple to 17 . |