Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following closely on the heels of the micro-mainframe link , the LAN gave many organisations their first management information system ( MIS ) . |
| 2 | Three paintings fetched three times their expected price , going for over a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 3 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 4 | Away games gave working-class youths their first taste of comfortable living . |
| 5 | This balmy airmass gave most places their warmest day of the month on the 16th — over 13C being recorded at Glasgow and Edinburgh . |