Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] the " 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 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 3 | Nevertheless its roots have evidently been shallower than in Northern Ireland , where the absence of comprehensive schools perhaps made it the more necessary . |
| 4 | I only asked him the other day |
| 5 | It only got us the £15 at The Marquee for doing a show for Radio London , the old pirate radio station . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
| 8 | No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down . |
| 9 | He erm , he left school , he only told them the day before . |
| 10 | You knew from the beginning the terms of the thing , and if you tried to make it more serious than that , you only lost him the quicker . |
| 11 | I was wearier , I was more tolerant , that was the only difference and that change only enabled me the better to accept what I 'd always been . |
| 12 | Besides birds , which obviously fascinated me the most , there were many kinds of spiders , ants , termites , bees and other insects in the forest , but the species that we enjoyed collecting were beautiful butterflies , dragonflies and cicadas . |
| 13 | Whitaker , a committed and active Guild member , recognised in Coburn a considerable talent and so offered him the not insubstantial opportunity to shape a BBC drama series from grass roots , by writing its pilot . |
| 14 | ‘ But you only saw me the other night ! |
| 15 | Bert and I both noticed it , independently like , even though Bert only saw him the once when he were so taken up looking to Celia . |
| 16 | Erm before I sent , I only did it the other day , I regret to say any rate . |
| 17 | Fair gave me the ‘ ump she did . |
| 18 | Garway 's resistance to exclusion perhaps earned him the respect of the government of James II . |
| 19 | Helen Crane , an ex-secretary , valued her job because it not only gave her the experience of autonomy , but it publicly valued her exercise of this responsibility : |
| 20 | ‘ There 's an inside to things , ’ he explained , ‘ and print only gave me the outside . |
| 21 | Maybe he just did n't think when they showed him it , that it was n't the right one cos I suppose if you 've seen them every day you do n't , it does n't register it 's just the fact that of course your dad only gave him the price of the blue and white |
| 22 | We , you only gave us the themes . |
| 23 | ‘ So did I. The feeling wears off . ’ |
| 24 | Terry eagerly gave me the whole picture ; he seemed to know enough about Pyke to write his biography . |
| 25 | What perhaps struck her the most was that , despite all , many of them appeared to be happy , while she , Sally-Anne , who could if she wished command the most luxurious life a woman could dream of , was most desperately unhappy , and had no idea of how she might become otherwise . |
| 26 | No , they only had them the the er rescue operations , rescue men . |
| 27 | ‘ And who unkindly told her the truth ? ’ |
| 28 | Moving to Guildford , Leese 's fanaticism and his willingness to devote all his time and resources to the new movement soon made him the fulcrum of racial nationalist activity in Britain . |
| 29 | Seeing that ruling railroaded through made it the saddest day of my life . |
| 30 | But it was n't Jozef who finally told me the truth — which of the three suspects had taken the pieces of silver . |