Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third John Booth provided much of the capital for his partners , Samuel and Aaron Walker , when they established the business that eventually made them the leading ironmasters in the North of England . |
| 2 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 3 | I only asked him the other day |
| 4 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 5 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
| 6 | No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down . |
| 7 | Sharpe told Ziegler what he knew , which merely confirmed what the Prussian Captain had already discovered for himself . |
| 8 | And in that moment , Joseph suddenly knew who the three men were ; only Katherine Lundy 's men would be enquiring after Patrick . |
| 9 | ‘ But you only saw me the other night ! |
| 10 | Erm before I sent , I only did it the other day , I regret to say any rate . |
| 11 | Terry eagerly gave me the whole picture ; he seemed to know enough about Pyke to write his biography . |
| 12 | Durkin soon made himself the principal object of attraction . |
| 13 | On the strength of this scanty victory ( 23,000 votes , i.e. 28 per cent of the total number cast ) this largely unknown candidate was now treated by the media as ‘ the front runner ’ and ‘ the man to beat ’ , allowing him to gather the momentum that finally brought him the Democratic nomination . |
| 14 | I would have understand if he 'd dived and got out their way and the wind just blew it the other end . |
| 15 | So I just gave them the statutory amount per tape |
| 16 | That just gave him the more confidence . ’ |
| 17 | The other thing I was interested in was the increase of ele of occupational therapists and I just wondered what the realistic expectation was of being able to recruit them because as far as I know they are a scarce resource er and not easy to find . |
| 18 | Leith hardly recognised herself the next day when , with her usual free-flowing locks fastened severely in a knot at the back of her head , she donned a pair of plain glass , horn-rimmed spectacles , and surveyed the result . |
| 19 | Emperor Akihito , 56 , formally proclaimed himself the 125th emperor of Japan on Nov. 12 , in a lavish 30-minute ceremony held 20 months after the death of his father , Hirohito ( in death known as Showa ) . |
| 20 | Has no one ever taught you the gracious art of how to accept help when it 's offered ? ’ |
| 21 | But I still enjoyed it the second time . |
| 22 | We always called it the posh part , because although our street carried on from it over the main road , it was like being in a different village altogether . |
| 23 | Burton always thought it the finest thing he ever did . |
| 24 | ‘ I liked your family very much , but you deliberately gave them the wrong impression about me , ’ she said angrily . |
| 25 | ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And yet she openly admitted it the other day . |
| 28 | When a care worker later approached her the 88 year old pleaded : ’ Do n't hit me . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Treatment improved since it nearly lost us the Crimean War . |