Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [n mass] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Honduran newspaper , La Tribuna , reported that people opposed to the project had been receiving threatening phone calls .
2 The small disc is inserted into the floppy drive of the computer and the program can then be run or installed or data read from the disk .
3 He emphasised that people distinguished between the ex-government and the King .
4 I sat back expecting to be proved right and watched as people joined in the discussion and debate .
5 It was a fortnight now since it had started with such a hullabaloo , but there had been no raids , and no bombs had been dropped ; the sirens went and people made for the shelters , but more and more half-heartedly , as days passed and nothing exciting happened .
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