Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As usual I popped into the second-hand bookshops and , as usual , failed to find any old golf books of any interest . |
| 2 | In this they suffered from the same defects as the streltsy , the small force of regular infantry originally set up during Ivan the Terrible 's reign . |
| 3 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
| 4 | To achieve this they concentrated on the whole spectrum of damaging events in an area and explored their aggregate impact . |
| 5 | Drivers Ronnie Peterson and Jacky Ickx were n't convinced by the car 's handling characteristics , so unconvinced they collided at the first corner . |
| 6 | In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police . |
| 7 | This it did by the 1981 Contempt of Court Act . |
| 8 | Izanagi possessed a magical jewelled spear and this he flung into the endless water , creating the first land-mass from its point . |
| 9 | Fossils from more recent strata showed progressively less similarities with time in the different continents ; this he attributed to the contrasting evolutionary paths of groups of animals and plants separated by continental drift . |
| 10 | I can still remember how good that coffee tasted , and how different it tasted from the common-room coffee I was used to . |
| 11 | On Sept. 30 he called for the first time for dialogue to reach an equitable global settlement , addressing himself particularly to France which he had identified as more flexible [ see below for Mitterrand 's UN speech ] , although once again stressing that there would be no compromise over Kuwait belonging to Iraq . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm afraid it vanished along the main highway . |
| 13 | On Sept. 22 he resurfaced in the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este , declaring that he would not be returning to France to face charges because he had reason to fear an assassination attempt . |
| 14 | In 1979 I went to the English Schools Championships for the first time , to run in the 200 metres for London . |
| 15 | In 1979 I interviewed for the first ( and last ) time the newly elected Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 16 | In July 1979 she moved into the 50,000 apartment and immediately set to work furnishing the rooms in a warm but simple Habitat style . |
| 17 | Indeed he was appointed London correspondent for EVO when it was launched , a fact that initially escaped Miles , since he was unaware it existed until the third issue . |
| 18 | From 1888 he served on the new Cumberland county council , opposing the construction of roads over Lakeland passes , reducing mining pollution , and organizing the proper signposting of footpaths . |
| 19 | After that she sat on the morning-room steps watching the day slide off the face of Old Carrots field . |
| 20 | I 'm very glad I went into the Red Lion . ’ |
| 21 | These I consigned to the waste-paper basket . |
| 22 | Between January 1939 and June 1940 she worked on the French–Spanish border to alleviate the wretchedness of the defeated Spanish Republicans , only leaving on the last boat to sail for Britain from Bordeaux . |
| 23 | The Chilean party , in alliance with Radicals and Socialists ( who had sprung up to challenge the Communists in 1932 ) won a popular Front victory in 1938 , and in 1946 they collaborated with the Radical party to win an election ( this time without the Socialists ) and participated briefly in the government . |
| 24 | Then at the age of 35 he moved to the ruined fortress of Pispir on the east bank of the Nile . |
| 25 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 26 | From the 1920s to the 1940s he acted as the principal representative of the provisional administration in Washington , having given up the presidency . |
| 27 | These he expressed in the Working Men 's Club and Institute Union , founded chiefly on his initiative on 14 June 1862 in London , becoming its first paid secretary in 1863 . |
| 28 | He had long ago accepted the feudal organization of Church and baronage as an adequate way of organizing the world : the real questions of salvation lay in a quite different area of experience , and on these he spoke with the simple and clear authority of a personal vision and prolonged thought . |
| 29 | Starving and tired I prepared for the next day . |
| 30 | I told them all I knew except the one thing the great cardinal wanted . ’ |