Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In pre-Tom Watson days , this made Thomson the greatest British Open champion of the era . |
| 2 | The French gave Bismarck the opportunity for this . |
| 3 | Hill , who survived a late collision with Berger 's Ferrari lost a lot of time in the traffic and this gave Gerhard the opportunity to close up in the closing stages . |
| 4 | This gave Ian the idea of setting up a similar , small-scale , homely establishment in the Highlands . |
| 5 | This gave Conner the chance , when the breeze was light , to build up a sufficient cushion to protect him from Kanza 's better moderate air speed as the sea breeze grew . |
| 6 | And so Maldita the malevolent became Fantasma the fantastic . |
| 7 | In 1351 Edward III granted John the woodward of Raskelf a pension of 3d. a day ‘ for good service and especially because his eyes were torn out and his tongue and his fingers cut off by malefactors in the Forest of Galtres in the time when he was one of the King 's foresters there ’ . |
| 8 | When Mariner 10 reached Mercury the following data on planetary magnetic fields were to hand : the Earth rotates quickly , almost certainly has a large molten iron core , and has a strong dipole field ; Mars rotates quickly , but probably has no molten iron core , and has no detectable dipole field ; Venus probably has a sizeable molten iron core but rotates slowly , and has no detectable dipole field ( perhaps also because it has no solid inner core — see section 4.2 ) ; the Moon rotates slowly , probably has no liquid iron core , and has no detectable dipole field . |
| 9 | A birdie two at the 32nd gave Rafferty the lead and he went two up at the 34th where Lyle , disturbed mid-swing by the clicking of a camera , pulled his tee shot into the trees on the left . |
| 10 | All the cancer patients had adenocarcinomas : two had Dukes 's stage A , eight had B , and six had C. The polyps varied in size from 0.5 cm to 1.0 cm and five showed dysplastic changes ( one mild and four moderate dysplasia ) . |
| 11 | Solihull referee Vic Callow showed Pascucci the red card and booked Aspinall and Oliver Bierhoff during an 80th-minute clash . |
| 12 | The events of 1934 showed Joyce the propagandist in a different and more chilling role . |
| 13 | When in 1574 , Rudolf II made Prague the capital of the Holy Roman Empire , he gave the Jews yet greater security . |
| 14 | 11 ) called Corinth and Chalkis the handcuffs of Greece , and the importance of Corinth to Macedon , which this comparison indicates , goes back to 338 when Philip II made Corinth the physical centre of his new Greek league ( though whether the meeting-chamber has been identified on the ground is disputed ) . |
| 15 | Gourlay opened the second set with a double , but two ends later found himself two sets down after a maximum 4 and a 3 gave Corsie the set 7-2 . |
| 16 | He received military training in the Soviet Union and Egypt in the 1970s , fought the Israelis in Lebanon in 1982 and first entered Sweden the following year after obtaining a visa through its Damascus embassy . |
| 17 | The Revolution of 1688 lost D'Urfey the courtly connections he had developed , so that he had to turn to other means of support . |
| 18 | That gave Arsenal the initiative and within seven minutes they went further ahead . |
| 19 | That gave Fallon the overlap and he scored in the corner . |
| 20 | A poet in the 870s imagined Charles the Bald controlling the wheel of fortune , throwing down one man , and raising up another . |
| 21 | Berbizier 's new look garçons , short on height but strong in the arm , dominated the close-quarter forward combat , but a steady stream of set-piece gave Wales the lifeline they craved . |
| 22 | More specifically , it was suggested that a scene in a video nasty gave Fairley the idea of forcing the brother and boyfriend of a 17-year-old girl to perform group sex acts with her at gunpoint . |