Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [conj] of " in BNC.
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1 | The besieger had become the besieged , and Matilda had only escaped because of the gallant rearguard action of her half-brother , Robert , Earl of Gloucester , as they fought their way out of their castle before they were starved out . |
2 | Toby had partly under-performed because of nerves and lack of examination technique . |
3 | Chile and Argentina were both offered barter deals , involving the exchange of Chilean nitrates ( demand for which had recently collapsed because of German development of synthetic substitutes ) and Argentine agricultural products for Soviet crude oil , along with assistance in the setting up of their own national refineries . |
4 | Eleven of 36 male CLO patients had never smoked and of those who had smoked the median pack years accumulated was 15 ( mean 20.3 , range 5–60 pack years ) . |
5 | She had been relieved when he first appeared in it ; it was bright blue striped with red , expensive , obviously new , a reassuring sign that the mother she had never met and of whom he never spoke , tried to take good care of him . |