Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But trainer Tim Forster 's assistant Henry Daly expected nothing less of the 2-5 favourite . |
| 2 | The Moghul tombs , the Red Fort , the towering minarets of the Jami Masjid , made me aware for the first time of the significance of civilization , and the meaning of history . |
| 3 | I tried to become one with nature on the games-field , which made me unpopular with the enthusiastic cricketers . |
| 4 | Taking a step back , he flung the blanket aside , cursing aloud as the movement wrenched his arm , and lowered them both to the hard bench . |
| 5 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
| 6 | I fought my hardest for the Dutch prisoners before the Privy Council this morning , but the tribunal was hopelessly divided , and the anti-Boers prevailed over the pro-Boers . |
| 7 | Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure . |
| 8 | The Times , which had hitherto kept a dignified silence on such a distasteful subject , pronounced itself well-pleased with the modified outcome . |
| 9 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 10 | Some of us worried and went looking for him , then one of Alf Wood 's sons found him dead in the old pw hut , we think he died of a heart attack or so the doctor said . |
| 11 | All found it one of the hardest forms of market intervention . |
| 12 | We found it one of the simplest to use because of the trigger action and the compact shape . |
| 13 | The 44 has a 1/4in shank , and I found it perfect for the aggressive work I was attempting . |
| 14 | It was just by chance that I turned up at one of the early meetings of the first lesbian liberation groups in London and found myself involved in the early debates around socialist feminism , radical lesbianism , the Women 's Movement and the sixth demand which named women 's right to a self-defined sexuality . |
| 15 | Duncan unlocked the door and supervised the fuelling from a small bowser as Myeloski made himself comfortable in the rear seat . |
| 16 | The row began after father and baby were evicted from a council bed and breakfast — on the grounds Steve made himself homeless in the first place . |
| 17 | He immersed himself in parish work and made himself indispensable to the overworked parish priest . |
| 18 | Her own self-confidence made her impervious to the intended snubs . |
| 19 | They ignored me safe in the open field where the old ridge and furrow strips and the flatter headlands where the plough was turned were clearly silhouetted by the sun . |
| 20 | Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper . |
| 21 | When I was getting better , he told me some of the local news . |
| 22 | and he was saying , told me some of the different names , you know , other than pine , I suppose their name for whatever these pines were , the timber there was beautiful |
| 23 | as their political and moral equals by signing an agreement which committed them all to the same values . |
| 24 | I sat down in Dad 's chair and told him all about the old lady and her brother , or at least what I knew , which was n't much . |
| 25 | She needed to know that you loved her ; so you told her all about the new drugs she could get from the Arcturans , or the huge advances in radiation treatment since rho mesons had been discovered . |
| 26 | Merson added his third in the 63rd minute . |
| 27 | Lawrence played it cagey after the goalless draw against Blackburn Rovers . |
| 28 | She had just come from London and she told us all about the great spirit of British resistance to the Nazi air attacks . |
| 29 | To be able to fly one around in a circuit made you one of the top flyers in the world . |
| 30 | But that was n't the end of it ; they had made up their minds to sample every diversion that Wickhams had to offer , and went on to explore the entire store , from Haberdashery , where Mabel bought some knicker-elastic , to Hardware , where Florrie could not resist a patent vegetable slicer which was being demonstrated by a lady in a snowy white apron , who showed them how the little gadget peeled apples , chipped potatoes , sliced onions and generally made itself invaluable to the busy housewife . |