Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Cynical and astringent too , which she found satisfying after too much flattery .
2 and it was er a penny each way from across to Mold and when he sold out to Crosswell , old Jenkins stipulated that for so many years they had to keep penny each way
3 first first few days you got involved with too many foremen .
4 On the water the Aqua-Pak felt comfortable with very little restriction in movement .
5 For some reason Ianthe felt tired by so much talking and was glad when half-past twelve came and John suggested tentatively that he might go out .
6 But none of them lay still in quite this way .
7 She felt annoyed with herself , made miserable with so little cause .
8 Their armament consisted , as did that of almost all battleships for the next two decades , of four big guns ( 12-inch in this case ) mounted in two pairs and a secondary broadside battery of half-a-dozen 6-inch .
9 He did this with very little effort , and I gave him small wooden cubes so that he could make a cube to keep .
10 Yet for the greater part Chopin 's elusive essence emerged unscathed from so much inaccuracy and caprice .
11 It said : ’ the land left fallow in almost all Member States was of very low productive level . ’
12 Virginia Woolf was asked once why she stayed married for so many years to Leonard , a man most of her colleagues found to be her intellectual inferior .
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