Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common .
2 None of them shared the icy restraint of the last letter .
3 Most people in bands have quite similar backgrounds and I reckon a lot of them shared the same experience as I did .
4 As Fael-Inis began to play , each of them drew a deep breath and surrendered , and each of them experienced the deepest contentment at hearing the silver pipes of enchantment .
5 Behind them hulked the great mass of Shunner Fell below the flanks of which the Butter Tubs Pass wormed its way over into Wensleydale .
6 But the flow of immigrants went on , with very little space to receive the new settlers , so in 1628 some of them made the easy move from St. Kitts to Nevis , and a couple of years later made a slightly longer move and occupied the islands of Antigua and Monserrat , laying the foundations of English settlement in the Leeward Islands .
7 Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team .
8 She never knew which one of them made the first move , but suddenly , unaccountably , she was in his arms , his hands pressing against her back to draw her closer still .
9 ‘ My guess is that one of them found the other end of the conduit , maybe the Fax machine at Pegasus or evidence of Cawthorne acting on information he should n't have had .
10 Starting with William Morris in the 1870s , a group of them found the medieval setting , craft traditions and stunning landsacapes they wanted in which to work .
11 One of them phoned the other every evening .
12 The enormous success of the BBC 's Follow Me demonstrated the huge scale of the demand .
13 Above them rose the poor fields , littered with rock and gorse , the lower slopes of the mountain .
14 It was not known how many of them caught the connecting flight to Katmandu .
15 Three weeks ago I became the proud owner of a Chihuahua and he 's changed my life completely .
16 When we got home , Dad came to the rescue , with the necessary bob ( as a shilling was called ) and so , on the following day , I became the proud owner of my very own tool set .
17 Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars .
18 So I became the only bluesman in Kensal Green .
19 Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head .
20 In 1951 , when I was nineteen , I became the first home-grown sex symbol in austerity Britain .
21 Later , because of my own initiative in originating the idea , I became the first Radio Editor in Canada , which meant writing a daily column about radio programmes , stars , and networks .
22 As I now personally from one of my previous lives in nineteen eighty-two , when I became the first Director of the newly independent National Federation of Community Organisations .
23 The more celebrated I became the worse I painted and the more false I felt .
24 Now I became the second edition .
25 I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties .
26 It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying .
27 And so I became the single , visible manifestation of homosexuality in South Yorkshire .
28 I asked the Assistant Commissioner to let me go to Helsinki and he refused .
29 The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought .
30 Moreover , ’ he smiled , ‘ I asked the young gallant who was sitting by Benedicta to take care of both ladies .
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