Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 5 | Nevertheless its roots have evidently been shallower than in Northern Ireland , where the absence of comprehensive schools perhaps made it the more necessary . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I only asked him the other day |
| 8 | It only got us the £15 at The Marquee for doing a show for Radio London , the old pirate radio station . |
| 9 | ‘ I only met you a half hour ago and I love you like one of my own . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I 'm glad I did n't buy a sling because I only used it a couple of times . |
| 14 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down . |
| 17 | He erm , he left school , he only told them the day before . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And when I worked for her boss he only paid me a fiver ! |
| 20 | Spotting a hatch in the far wall , she walked across and gingerly opened it a crack . |
| 21 | Mr Rochester was in such a hurry that he only allowed me a short time to put on my wedding dress and veil . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've ruined my Gnome costume and perhaps lost me a lovely bicycle . ’ |
| 23 | But when I said as much to Mala , as a joke to ease the tension that still showed in her eyes , she merely called me an unrepeatable name and stalked away to her cabin again . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They more or less called him a fool when he tried to change back into whatever it was our current whatever it was and if that 's the case erm Hungar Hungarians are holding on to this two thousand pound , it 's surety is n't it ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 28 | It only took us a few seconds to realize the mistake but by then twenty-eight kids and three of the missionaries were either dead or dying . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |