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 | Behind them hulked the great mass of Shunner Fell below the flanks of which the Butter Tubs Pass wormed its way over into Wensleydale . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One of them phoned the other every evening . |
| 9 | The enormous success of the BBC 's Follow Me demonstrated the huge scale of the demand . |
| 10 | Above them rose the poor fields , littered with rock and gorse , the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 11 | It was not known how many of them caught the connecting flight to Katmandu . |
| 12 | Three weeks ago I became the proud owner of a Chihuahua and he 's changed my life completely . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars . |
| 15 | So I became the only bluesman in Kensal Green . |
| 16 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And so I became the single , visible manifestation of homosexuality in South Yorkshire . |
| 19 | I asked the Assistant Commissioner to let me go to Helsinki and he refused . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Moreover , ’ he smiled , ‘ I asked the young gallant who was sitting by Benedicta to take care of both ladies . |
| 22 | What I asked the right hon. Gentleman — and what he has still not answered — is , would the Government veto a treaty with the word ’ federal ’ in it ? |
| 23 | I asked the right hon. Gentleman to appeal to the Roman Catholic Church to excommunicate the terrorists — the evil gang of murderers , and their supporters and helpers . |
| 24 | I asked the right hon. and learned Gentleman whether he knew that his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition would go to Luigi 's restaurant and say what he said about phasing . |
| 25 | It was a clear night , but the radar was a mass of echoes and I asked the Belgian contact to give me an estimated course and speed of our quarry , and as a result of this we were able to pick it up . |
| 26 | I asked the new director there , John Hutchinson , whether this concerned him . |
| 27 | I asked the Chief Accountant . |
| 28 | I put that as an amendment , not reiterating the entire Labour budget , but I asked the Liberal Democrats , who purport to want to erm provide that sort of service to vulnerable people could they not accept that extra half a million pounds as an amendment , and two out of the group abstained , the rest of them voted against that as an amendment . |
| 29 | AT a public election meeting held in St Luke 's Church Hall , Ferryhill , on Sunday , March 29 , I asked the following of the three candidates . |
| 30 | I asked the hon. Member before to bring the matter to my office . |