Example sentences of "of [adj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and these people , you know , er had a deputation and all this business and I think some of that rubbed off on the children and , and you 've |
| 2 | Use of mundic tailed off in the Fifties . |
| 3 | A welcoming party of six walked down to the shore as the boating party disembarked not without difficulty ; Johnson , after his six or seven hours on the Atlantic , found the rocks ‘ irregularly broken , and a false step would have been very mischievous ’ . |
| 4 | The first three teams from each of these went through to the final at East Sussex . |
| 5 | Over in Cheltenham , 6 teams of 4 turned out for the day 's main event , won by the team from the St James Hotel . |
| 6 | ‘ The best scores from weekly magazines came from City Limits and New Stateman & Society ; the Literary Review scored well ; the TLS and London Review of Books were disappointing , and the worst scores of all came in from the Spectator and Time Out . |
| 7 | Tessa first of all sat down on the edge of the bed , with her knees together , her feet crossed and slightly to one side , her back straight , and her cup and saucer at chest height , as she had learnt in Social Situation Training . |
| 8 | This lady of 42 came along with the diagnosis of uterine fibroid which was leading to severe haemorrhaging at the time of her period . |
| 9 | The World Cup limited the domestic appearances of the leading players so that an unusually high number of 103 turned out for the six first-class teams . |
| 10 | SO&sub2 ; and soot are measured at 418 sites ( the descendants of thousands set up for the Clean Air Acts ) but , prior to criticism from the House of Commons Environment Committee in 1984 , knowledge of other pollutants was threadbare . |