Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The duties attached to some of these appointments were not too arduous , which made them all the more attractive to a landed gentleman with other interests but a great desire for an increased income . |
| 2 | Tribesmen might indeed be benighted savages , but they could still stir the liberal conscience — especially when their very primitiveness and simplicity made them all the more vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous Europeans . |
| 3 | Always small things , nothing she could have a qualm about accepting , which made them all the more delightful . |
| 4 | Their small majority made them all the more conscious of the problems they needed to surmount to win the next election . |
| 5 | Léger was shown the works of Picasso and Braque in 1910 by Kahnweiler and met them later the same year . |
| 6 | Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay |
| 7 | Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep . |
| 8 | It was he who held the troops together in their communal dormitory , and it was he who led them out the next morning . |
| 9 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 10 | But even when she whispered them aloud the words had a hollow ring . |
| 11 | Then someone asked me where the station was , and she was deaf , and I had to trumpet like an elephant for about ten minutes … . |
| 12 | ‘ In one game in Barcelona , the players asked me why the crowd was whistling . |
| 13 | He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses . |
| 14 | Then , one afternoon , Didier led me down the rue de Fleuve to the cemetery . |
| 15 | He led me down the hallway and into the communal kitchen . |
| 16 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 17 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 18 | This absence of news made me all the more careful , and an hour after leaving camp I arrived without mishap at an open glade near the top of the hill , within a hundred yards of the forest road . |
| 19 | they sold them out the next morning , they 'd |
| 20 | Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time . |
| 21 | In the hour before dawn , when the pulsar had risen above the horizon and the sky was still dark , they picked up pulsations at the correct rate — and , as confirmation , found them again the following morning . |
| 22 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 23 | Dad phoned me up the day before and , knowing I was about to go away on holiday , suggested we meet the next night , on the fourth of August . |
| 24 | Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part . |
| 25 | Your voice pursued me down the marble stairway : |
| 26 | When English resolution faltered and they turned to flee , the Scots pursued them down the Lowlands and across the Border , laying waste to Northumberland and Cumberland . |
| 27 | ‘ He stopped me down the village . ’ |
| 28 | He invited you up the pitch to meet him on the drive . |
| 29 | they hooked you out the rapids twice did n't they ? |
| 30 | Mr Atkinson says he met President Bush just last September , and the President promised him then the full facts would come out . |