Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only took over the financial reins three weeks before the end of the financial year ! |
| 2 | I , I , I , I did it , but I only missed out the two people that were away . |
| 3 | They even escorted me to the school gates sometimes — and I just bunked out the other way . |
| 4 | Readers from last month will be glad to know that I finally tracked down the elusive Tequila based Marguerita in a Tex-Mex cafe in Covent Garden . |
| 5 | Brian and I usually rode up the steep hillside at the back of the house to where , at 8500 feet , there was a grotto , crudely cut out of the rock below ground level . |
| 6 | I quickly trod out the flickering twists of paper , and scrambled across to the door . |
| 7 | I also put on the real Sperzel locking tuning pegs as opposed to the fake ones that Fender are making now . |
| 8 | I also tracked down the first lieutenant of the submarine and one of the two soldiers carried on board and they confirmed the killings . |
| 9 | These new sweeping powers opened the door to planned redevelopment on an extensive scale , an important forerunner to the Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 , which effectively set up the post-war statutory planning system . |
| 10 | Elections to the Nationalrat ( lower house of the federal parliament ) on Oct. 20 left the four largest parties , which together made up the governing coalition , controlling 147 of the 200 seats ( previously 159 ) ; the Radical Democratic Party ( FDP/PRD ) lost seven seats and the Christian Democratic People 's Party ( CVP/PDC ) lost five . |
| 11 | The Balkans underwent successive crises of competing nationalisms , one of which finally brought down the pre-1914 structure of European power . |
| 12 | But Gloucester also insisted throughout that he stood for the continuance of Edward IV 's regime , an emphasis which inevitably played down the political significance of the ‘ outs ’ . |
| 13 | But Gloucester also insisted throughout that he stood for the continuance of Edward IV 's regime , an emphasis which inevitably played down the political significance of the ‘ outs ’ . |
| 14 | There was none at all in the subsequent Financial Services Bill and the accompanying paper from the SIB , Regulation of Investment Business , which simply set out the proposed clauses to be enacted and the regulatory framework to be adopted without any attempt at justification . |
| 15 | Agriculture was beginning to change dramatically as well and after two hurricanes which almost wiped out the flourishing egg industry many farms built more substantial hen houses out of concrete blocks and the poultry were kept inside all the time in what was known as deep litter houses . |
| 16 | It is a collection of those books which the early church accepted as written by the apostles themselves , or by their close associates , and which therefore set out the true apostolic faith . |
| 17 | Looking up , she slowly spelt out the faded letters on the broken-off arm of the signpost , and then she had a shock . |
| 18 | However , such was A Smooth One 's superiority that she quickly made up the lost ground to score by four lengths . |
| 19 | Wayne seemed frozen in mid-action as she quickly threw back the top sheet of the bed and climbed in ; but then he recovered , and started an awkward fight to get his shoes off without actually untying their laces . |
| 20 | Orwell has left us with a graphic description of a typical reader , the elderly lady who always took out the same books , year-in year-out — a thing not possible incidentally in today 's rapid-turnover public libraries — with the word , ‘ I do love a drop of Dell ! ’ referring to the popular writer Ethel M. Dell . |
| 21 | Nafissa Lalliam was replaced as Health Minister by Mohammed Salah Mentouri , who also took over the Social Affairs portfolio but another woman , Anissa Benameur entered the Cabinet as Minister for Vocational Training and Employment , replacing Mohammed Bonmahrat . |
| 22 | Barbara not only acted as secretary to a succession of senior managers including Harold Worland and Raymond Anderson , she also carried out the secretarial work for the Board for many years . |
| 23 | The very phrase ‘ the Ulster people ’ refers to those who originally set up the true faith in Ireland and colonized the land accordingly . |
| 24 | Finally , Ricci got up and walked over to her daughter , who immediately handed over the troublesome hammer . |
| 25 | There was no central heating in the Old Rectory and she seldom switched on the two-bar electric fire in her bedroom , knowing how worried the Copleys were by their her bills . |
| 26 | In New York , Robert Schwartz , chairman of the Tarrytown Group of New York , offered $10000 to the person who actually carried out the best test of the hypothesis . |
| 27 | Whitby is worth minor discomfort , however , and we quickly clambered down the 199 steps and strolled around the endlessly fascinating harbour and backstreets . |
| 28 | At half-time Gloucester were only a penalty down , but they soon made up the three points and took the game with the only try . |
| 29 | When staff at the hospital realised their mistake they quickly brought out the right baby . |
| 30 | I saw parties feeding on the seed-heads of thrift in the middle of a gannet colony , on the seeds of rushes out on the windswept moors , and in my own garden where they quickly cleaned up the remaining rowan berries . |