Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sold the two I had . ’ |
| 2 | The more celebrated I became the worse I painted and the more false I felt . |
| 3 | I mean you got the ten you wanted . |
| 4 | I remember the first time I used the frail I got a clout o' the skull that I 'd remember . |
| 5 | The judge , Andrew Brooks , told the two they would be remanded in custody till then . |
| 6 | Banner headlines and patriotic textbooks told the British they were ‘ an imperial race ’ — a message pictorially reinforced on biscuit-tins , sauce-bottles , and cigarette-cards . |
| 7 | 13 1775 & that Body is vastly improv 'd the longer it is kept & the little remains of fat shine a little more thro' & it is now very much the colour of Indian Copper , i.e. it is very near the colour of finished work 'd mahogany & is really a beautiful mass , the Legs are now perfectly dry and from the Beginning to the end there is nothing of putrefaction . |
| 8 | it was touch and go for a time and when Leicester hit back with an equaliser from Whitlow a draw seemed the best they could hope for … |
| 9 | The night seemed the longest he had endured . |
| 10 | And father learnt the Welsh you know . |
| 11 | At the US Open at Shinnecock Hills he played the best I 'd ever seen him play — probably even better than he was going to in the British Open . |
| 12 | But then as we played the 13th I thought it might just be down to Bernhard and Seve . |
| 13 | Sitting in the other studio but actually it 's Carl in there now and it 's it 's not Dennis in there at all and er how on earth I almost confused the two I do n't know . |
| 14 | Ashley Kriel , a comrade-in-arms of the fifteen , paid the highest price-he was shot in the back by the security police . |
| 15 | He sat on this mower you see and and er as it cut the sheafed it off you see and we 'd to make bands , y you know with pieces of s er And then the lifters put that on the bands and bound them and through the the site . |
| 16 | He knew if he birdied the last he 'd break it . |
| 17 | No , I just came over fields , I went along and followed a dyke , I turned left at the cafe , and then followed the first I saw going up . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought my family and colleagues would faint when they saw me but they loved the new me instantly , ’ she said . |
| 19 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 20 | The harder they pulled the louder it became . |
| 21 | Even if he still felt the same it was no good if I was going to drive myself mad by becoming obsessive . |
| 22 | ‘ You would n't feel that I was letting you down if I did n't go to veterinary college ? ’ she asked — and felt the happiest she had done in weeks at his reply . |
| 23 | I felt the happiest I think I have ever felt . |
| 24 | The story contained the usual will-he-won't-he changes of direction , but when the amounts of cash involved began to escalate no-one was surprised when Innes took the money . |
| 25 | She noticed Ian flush as she retailed the little she knew of their contents . |
| 26 | He said he 'd noticed that our Mini was getting a bit down at heel , and in the light of Ken 's injuries he thought the least he could do was to give me a better means of transport . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought the longer it went on , the better it was looking for me . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ They were in a state because the more they struggled the deeper they sank . ’ |
| 29 | I took the best I could , and this is how I 've made use of them . ’ |
| 30 | After a thrilling final-set victory , the 43-year-old architect said : ‘ I had a bit of luck to win the third set and after Ian took the fourth I thought I would lose . ’ |