Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his adult life all these painful thoughts had been buried but still caused a great deal of unhappiness . |
| 2 | Thucydides also underlines the strategic importance of the place : an enemy like Sparta , if she held Amphipolis , could strike at Athens ' north Aegean allies , provided that Thessaly allowed a safe passage to the Strymon area . |
| 3 | He paid calls to La Vieille Cité , famed for its antiquities , where he was politely entertained and actually bought a little Renaissance bronze relief , but no one had heard of a cross coming on the market in recent years . |
| 4 | He had always been very highly strung and eventually suffered a complete mental and physical breakdown before dying in a private lunatic asylum in Roehampton 2 January 1900 . |
| 5 | The next morning when the bells of the abbey tolled for Prime , the first prayer of the monastic day , Corbett was up , dressed and gently kicked a sleepy , grunting Ranulf awake . |
| 6 | A winter-flowering cherry , planted in memory of someone in a place I can not visit to water regularly , bit the dust last spring , but a replacement seems to have become established and even had a few blossoms this winter . |