Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] 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 | ‘ I only realised what the problem was when I went to Kenya straight after Twin Cities . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 11 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
| 12 | No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down . |
| 13 | He erm , he left school , he only told them the day before . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Sharpe told Ziegler what he knew , which merely confirmed what the Prussian Captain had already discovered for himself . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I could make no further headway with the landlord so I made enquiries amongst the other customers : a beggar who whined for alms inside the doorway and a greasy-haired knave , but they only repeated what the landlord had said . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And in that moment , Joseph suddenly knew who the three men were ; only Katherine Lundy 's men would be enquiring after Patrick . |
| 22 | ‘ But you only saw me the other night ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | God alone knew what the traffic would be like on the freeway , through the mean streets of Edgware , down to the inferno that was the A406 , on through gloomy Tolworth and Chessington , out to the no-man's-land that was Leatherhead . |
| 25 | God alone knew what the girl did after the golden boy had gone off to sell his 57 varieties , heaven only knew why she could n't get herself dressed before ten o'clock . |
| 26 | Erm before I sent , I only did it the other day , I regret to say any rate . |
| 27 | Fair gave me the ‘ ump she did . |
| 28 | Garway 's resistance to exclusion perhaps earned him the respect of the government of James II . |
| 29 | 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 : |
| 30 | ‘ There 's an inside to things , ’ he explained , ‘ and print only gave me the outside . |