Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faldo took his 1992 winnings to a world record £1.5m , while Norman 's only consolation was that the £190,234 runner's-up cheque made him the first player in history to breech the $10 million barrier in career earnings . |
| 2 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 3 | So his political background and other skills made him the logical candidate ’ . |
| 4 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 5 | In a follow-up survey , the great majority rated it the best AIDS resource they had seen . |
| 6 | and we 'll be joining all the Irish folk at Cheltenham … do n't think Carmody 's mare will be running … but we 'll be following those that are with special reports from the festival all next week … for football fans the big one is tomorrow … at the Manor Ground its the Central South second division derby Oxford against Swindon … |
| 7 | He was immediately dispatched to the scene , where his energy , intelligence and presence of mind made him the chief decision-taker in the first days after the explosion of reactor number four . |
| 8 | It was only when the high priest asked him the direct question : |
| 9 | Christina cringed as Susanna pronounced it the American way . |
| 10 | Yeah Sue told me the other day that er she wo n't come out till she 's , she 's right cold . |
| 11 | As the dreamsun showed us the insubstantial outlines of the City down in the valley , we faded to white . |
| 12 | When we arrived , Helen Stoner showed us the three bedrooms . |
| 13 | The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars . |
| 14 | Monsieur Saulnier informed me the other day that it was not usual in this part of Normandy to have so many mosquitoes . |
| 15 | The Brazilian agent saw me the next morning . |
| 16 | Dot gave her the violet-patterned hanky that used to belong to Henrietta Forbes-Read to wipe her eyes . |
| 17 | The pose of the bald egg-shaped heads , the jointed arms stiffly flexed in a parody of benediction , the staring eyes and curved arrow-like lips gave them the hieratic look of a couple of painted deities . |
| 18 | That is why , when the French economy was screaming for lower interest rates , President Mitterrand increased them the other day . |
| 19 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 20 | Dennis gave me the vague smile of complicity that men exchange in lavatorial situations . |
| 21 | When asked which of all their various roles gave them the greatest satisfaction , 47% opted for being a mother , 22% simply being themselves , 15% being a partner/lover and just 10% being a working woman . |
| 22 | ‘ The brooch gave us the right clue — in fact it gave us two . |
| 23 | Daddy and Mummy greeted her the next morning . |
| 24 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 25 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 26 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 27 | At Cabinet on the Wednesday morning the Chancellor reported what the Foreign Secretary ( still confined to his house ) proposed to say . |
| 28 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 29 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |