Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The South Africans were asking the umpires in the West Indies whether they had received their one for the over . |
2 | The Hatchet had not lost those qualities which had made him one of the most respected , and feared , members of the underworld . |
3 | It was run by two balding , bespectacled men in their late thirties , neither of whom was called Largo , whose extensive knowledge of antiques had made it one of the most popular and profitable shops of its kind in the whole canton . |
4 | In Alexandria armies of monks sacked the Serapeum , the great temple to Osiris , and destroyed the library which had made it one of the world 's chief centres of learning . |
5 | When they had walked back to the car , his father had offered him one of the fish . |
6 | For some time he had thought her one of the most beautiful girls he had ever seen . |
7 | The validation procedure had become what one of the officers described as a ‘ treadmill ’ , sometimes with two or three visits a week . |
8 | Mill Reefs victory had proved him one of the greatest European racehorses of the age . |