Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " 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 | The assurance with which Gothic schemes were presented made them the obvious alternative to Second Empire , but large secular Gothic buildings of this type were an unknown quantity . |
| 3 | Then they had their way and asked me the usual series of childish but charmingly eager questions about myself , about London , about England . |
| 4 | It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level . |
| 5 | Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine . |
| 6 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 7 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 8 | ‘ I promised you the best assassin in England , Mr Estabrook , and he 's here . |
| 9 | Yeah , yeah they mentioned you the other day at Eddy just said to him you know , |
| 10 | The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers . |
| 11 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 12 | ‘ I promised her the best view of Florence from here , Mama , ’ he said over his shoulder as he wrestled with the catch . |
| 13 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
| 14 | And apparently she phoned her the other night at half past twelve and said can you come and pick me up ? said no . |
| 15 | But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century ! |
| 16 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 17 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 18 | Durkin soon made himself the principal object of attraction . |
| 19 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 20 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
| 21 | Later in the evening , when the sheep and cows were in , and the family was sitting round the fire , Śa kar told them the whole story of what had happened . |
| 22 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 23 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 24 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 25 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |
| 26 | ‘ Mr Lloyd George came … and informed me that he is able to form an administration and told me the proposed names of his colleagues , ’ the King wrote in his diary . |
| 27 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 28 | The owner then swapped me the beautiful picture with which he had boarded his shed window . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | She wondered rather wildly for a moment if they would both refuse to let go and imagined herself the unwilling participant in an unlikely tug of war , but Bernard took one look at Alain and released her . |