Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe .
2 I would have understand if he 'd dived and got out their way and the wind just blew it the other end .
3 Gould virtually admitted it the other day . ’
4 He soon became a permanent fixture in our Southern and United League teams and his delicate ball-playing skills rapidly earned him the quaint nickname ‘ Lady ’ , and a special place in the affections of Palace supporters .
5 Because the market for meals is in competitive equilibrium we saw that the marginal cost curve for films also told us the marginal value of the meals being sacrificed to make the last film .
6 But serious or lighthearted Central News always brought you the offbeat , like the catfish who loved to be fed by hand .
7 The owner then swapped me the beautiful picture with which he had boarded his shed window .
8 Mrs Green also sent me the cardboard box in which the gift had come and , curious to find out more about the cake 's origins , I rang the Yorkshire Farm Bakery .
9 For working-class girls ( unlike middle-class girls , for whom comprehensives potentially offered them the academic education denied to many under the systems of 11 + weighting ) comprehensives probably made little difference .
10 Terry eagerly gave me the whole picture ; he seemed to know enough about Pyke to write his biography .
11 His great courage at the time eventually earned him the Military Cross , but the harrowing experience was for a long while foremost in his mind and symbolized by the walk back to his commanding officer over a mass of dead German and British soldiers in which his feet scarcely touched the ground .
12 Mr Anderson therefore gave him the Hailing Ferry in perpetuity and set him up in a shed selling chandlery to the barge owners .
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