Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 That made her a good decade younger than he was , but she looked it .
2 That made him the perfect fling .
3 That made it a perfect victim for the advance loans ' fraud .
4 This made him the intellectual heir of John Hunter , whose Essays and Observations he published with due filial piety in 1861 .
5 This made him the ideal choice to fly this naval fighter .
6 Some would say this made him the ideal publisher of a newspaper .
7 This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment .
8 This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment .
9 This made it a no-go area for the Hong Kong police and it developed into a warren of opium dens and criminal hideouts .
10 This made it an easy room to clean , no one would want to come in while she was working .
11 Ever a man for taking the particular to exhibit the general , this allowed him a global crack at the Scots : he claimed that they were not interested in doing anything unless it had natural awkwardness in it : ‘ What can not be done without some uncommon trouble or particular expedient , will not often be done at all .
12 This gave her a certain mystique : everyone wants fame , fame , fame and more fame , do n't they ?
13 This gave me a great sense of freedom — and , just occasionally , I did hurtle down the street at night !
14 I did , however , box for Oxford for four years , winning against Cambridge three times , and this gave me a certain standing in the College .
15 This gave me a neat opening .
16 At 19 miles I was greeted by some close friends from college and again this gave me the extra energy I needed .
17 Mr Wilson says this gave him a different approach as well as a wider experience of business .
18 This gave him a one-stroke advantage over two players -Bill Nicolson , of Coventry , who had 73 , 69 , and Richard Latham , a local player , who managed 70 , 72 .
19 This gave him an endless shopping list of radical causes which had no apparent connection , but were bound together by the radical-chic lifestyle of their supporters .
20 This gave him an invaluable insight into the boardroom and helped to bridge the gap between financial controller and finance director .
21 This seemed a great victory for the undefeated Britons and since those living within the Province also now had cause to hate Rome , this gave them a real hope of a military success .
22 This gave them a new experience of evaporation , as well as time to draw on their prior experiences .
23 This gave them a resounding lead in the contest for the McCormack Shield .
24 This gave them a statutory duty to appoint a committee and a chief officer specifically for the care of children .
25 This earned him the unusual distinction of being elected to a fellowship of the society at the age of twenty-five ( 1852 ) .
26 Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry .
27 This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire .
28 He also practised medicine and magic , and the latter brought him an unsavoury reputation .
29 Many thought it a cruel injustice that Julian should have to go to prison at all .
30 They all thought it a great joke .
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