Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [art] " 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 | ‘ That meeting with Ken and his decision to make Ken 's part big made it a sort of broken-back type of play . |
| 3 | Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life , and effectively found itself a conscience . |
| 4 | Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life , and effectively found itself a conscience . |
| 5 | Less than a year later we got married and I moved down here and eventually found myself a job . |
| 6 | Natural aptitude and a career in radio , film and television had helped him become an outstanding communicator — a strength chat not only made him a formidable campaigner , but also equipped him for the business of government in the television age . |
| 7 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 8 | Nevertheless its roots have evidently been shallower than in Northern Ireland , where the absence of comprehensive schools perhaps made it the more necessary . |
| 9 | After the two pictures for Leone , Van Cleef stayed in Europe to make pale imitations of them and only returned to Hollywood in 1970 for El Condor which unwisely made him a sympathetic character . |
| 10 | I only asked him the other day |
| 11 | It only revealed what a warm , decent nature you have . ’ |
| 12 | It only got us the £15 at The Marquee for doing a show for Radio London , the old pirate radio station . |
| 13 | ‘ I only met you a half hour ago and I love you like one of my own . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I only realised what the problem was when I went to Kenya straight after Twin Cities . |
| 15 | Although in fact ultra vires , taxing many men worth less than £2 on goods must have been considered justified by circumstances , for their numbers alone made them an important element in the local community . |
| 16 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 17 | From being just another kid with nits in his head , the smallest in his class and the only one in the whole school whose skin was a swarthy brown , he suddenly found himself the most popular boy around . |
| 18 | A host of examples can be cited throughout the period of Stewart rule up to 1542 ; the fate of the mighty earls of Douglas at the hands of James II in the mid fifteenth century , the case , enshrined in ballad , of the over-confident border reiver Johnnie Armstrong , who suddenly found himself the victim of the utter ruthlessness of James V , tell the same story about how royal power was exercised in Scotland . |
| 19 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 20 | Clear skies allowed us to witness , once again , sensational scenery ; the worst storm of the summer only caught us a few hours away from Sasoma . |
| 21 | I 'm glad I did n't buy a sling because I only used it a couple of times . |
| 22 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
| 23 | ‘ My parents only told me a bit about them , ’ said Creggan , ‘ and I only saw one once when a pair came close to my homesite and my mother attacked them . |
| 24 | No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down . |
| 25 | He erm , he left school , he only told them the day before . |
| 26 | John was going to make his comforting fiction — that she had not really saved the firm , merely secured it a little earlier than the normal contracts would have saved it anyway — he was going to make it true , by ( in effect ) doctoring the books . |
| 27 | The issue was that the receivers had sufficient liquid assets to pay themselves and then terminate the receivership if they only paid themselves the amount of remuneration which B and L thought was due to them . |
| 28 | And when I worked for her boss he only paid me a fiver ! |
| 29 | Spotting a hatch in the far wall , she walked across and gingerly opened it a crack . |
| 30 | Sharpe told Ziegler what he knew , which merely confirmed what the Prussian Captain had already discovered for himself . |