Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So his political background and other skills made him the logical candidate ’ . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was only when the high priest asked him the direct question : |
| 5 | Christina cringed as Susanna pronounced it the American way . |
| 6 | Yeah Sue told me the other day that er she wo n't come out till she 's , she 's right cold . |
| 7 | As the dreamsun showed us the insubstantial outlines of the City down in the valley , we faded to white . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Monsieur Saulnier informed me the other day that it was not usual in this part of Normandy to have so many mosquitoes . |
| 10 | Dot gave her the violet-patterned hanky that used to belong to Henrietta Forbes-Read to wipe her eyes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That is why , when the French economy was screaming for lower interest rates , President Mitterrand increased them the other day . |
| 13 | Dennis gave me the vague smile of complicity that men exchange in lavatorial situations . |
| 14 | ‘ The brooch gave us the right clue — in fact it gave us two . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 17 | At Cabinet on the Wednesday morning the Chancellor reported what the Foreign Secretary ( still confined to his house ) proposed to say . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 22 | They stamped round the sofa and did that tricky bit of acrobatics that Sid and Ethel showed us the other night . |
| 23 | Our instructors taught us the correct names for the parts of the Topper . |
| 24 | People said things like for instance well females are n't intelligent enough to make choices and er which is , which is clearly pretty silly , and er there was also I think and the uncomfortable erm prospect that females could in some way or another control the evolution in males which I do n't think it appealed to the Victorians either and in fact many social Darwinists like Edward Westermark for example rejected the whole concept of sexual selection as Darwin called it the female choice , because it did n't promote survival of the fittest . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ Alan rang me the other night and told me to bring my hosepipe because he 's on fire at the moment . |
| 26 | To her relief , she was back to full fitness in time for the British Stroke-Play at Southerness where a 78 and 77 carved out of near gale-force winds gave her the half-way lead . |
| 27 | Wickham gave him the withering look of a man whose junior reads too many detective stories . |
| 28 | Azharuddin gave him the three-fours-in-an-over treatment , driving all three off the back foot . |
| 29 | The thought of the delicious lunch gave me the extra boost I needed to reach the summit . |
| 30 | It was said that Gertrude gave him the final result . |