Example sentences of "[prep] france and [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most controversial item in this low-key list was the establishment of a competitive VAN sector ; but even this was already under way in France and well advanced in Britain . |
| 2 | The milky-white substance which cloaked Bourn every day totally stopped the heavy bombers from taking off , and at that time the Allied armies were coping with the Battle of the Bulge in France and desperately needed air support . |
| 3 | It seems that Louis-Napoleon , through a combination of misinformation and wishful thinking , overestimated the strength of Bonapartist feeling in France and foolishly decided to attempt the overthrow of the government of Louis-Philippe by means of a coup d'état . |
| 4 | And in spite of the compromise , five-sixths of the 30,000 Vichy troops in Syria and Lebanon were permitted to return to France and thereby lost to Free France . |
| 5 | Our operations controlling officer , Sammy Powell , often accompanied us to France and always worked hard on both sides of the Channel to establish good relations with our French colleagues . |