Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course he got half the value of Trafford Hall , which was quarter of a million ? |
| 2 | I think I made half the record with the Firebird and the other half with the Lazer . |
| 3 | In the 1950s the UK was still second to the USA for its share of world manufacturing exports and produced half the world 's export of motor cars . |
| 4 | Sara began to wish she had n't embarked on this explanation of how and why Matthew Preston owned half the house . |
| 5 | Martin reported that the Met . |
| 6 | The smoke this produced was so dense that it closed airports and smothered half the country . |
| 7 | Coy-yll ( 1970 ) also showed that , for a given crystalline solid , there is a point at which increasing the electron beam current ceased to produce greater luminescence intensity ; he termed this the saturation level . |
| 8 | Instead , she said , there had been a problem when the council employed a contractor to lay a new waterproof surface on the top deck , to which NCP contributed half the cost . |
| 9 | Instead , she said , there had been a problem when the council employed a contractor to lay a new waterproof surface on the top deck , to which NCP contributed half the cost . |
| 10 | Gregory analysed all the planning applications in the area between 1957 and 1966 , and showed that development permission had been refused for 83 per cent of the 3,000 ha for which applications had been made . |
| 11 | I thought they washed the blood out changed all the blood . |
| 12 | And sometimes I felt he was different , and had changed , even though I knew people changed all the time and people our age changed faster than most . |
| 13 | Some were friends , some were enemies , but they changed all the time . |
| 14 | John retained all the filer media from the old pond in large sacks . |
| 15 | There would always have been a few men who had been dancing barechested all the evening , dancing with the fierce attention of the tango , or the apache ; these were the ones who stayed on late . |
| 16 | In London I would not let a photographer take my picture , because the Government confiscated all the TV footage . |
| 17 | He 'd keep that one , even if Ymor confiscated all the rest . |
| 18 | And I know that whatever the rhetoric , Mrs Thatcher used all the rhetoric , nobody took us further into Europe than Mrs Thatcher . |
| 19 | It is true that the government used all the influence it could to secure the return of loyal members , and the purges of borough corporations at the end of Charles II 's reign certainly had an electoral impact , but the election of such a loyal Parliament appears to have been more the result of a genuine reaction against the Whigs amongst the electorate than it was of Court manipulation . |
| 20 | With less reliable means of reaching the station , with perhaps less requirement for haste , and less opportunity to understand the timetables or gauge time by any other means than the sun , these passengers used all the patience of the peasant to wait for their appropriate train . |
| 21 | It was more than two decades since he had taken offence at the term-a term used all the while in court , where the Han were predominant and the few Caucasians treated as honorary Han — yet here , in the Domain , he felt the words incongruous , almost — surprisingly — insulting . |
| 22 | He fell on his feet , coiled hard into a ball , and used all the weight of his body and the power of his long legs to project him forward again after the enemy who recoiled from his reaching arms . |
| 23 | That was a phrase she and Benny used all the time . |
| 24 | And flying up and down the stairs full of gin and nooky — no wonder she tripped and crashed all the way down . ’ |
| 25 | Comments ranged all the way from excellent to poor with the majority being in the good to very good range . |
| 26 | Apart from the grandiosity of the plan , and the exaltation of the mood of Jubilate Agno , the work reveals the man in all his undefended innocence : ‘ For I blessed God in St. James 's Park till I routed all the company ’ . |
| 27 | He grumbled all the time , but was really quite happy because he did not allow himself to worry . |
| 28 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |
| 29 | The Green Study though was a perfect place for writing ; again panelled , the panelling painted a celadon green , one of its windows looked over the garden and caught all the sun , the other over a side courtyard and away across the huddled roofs of Mermaid Street to Winchelsea , another ancient town . |
| 30 | ‘ So I swam all the way through High School , and I was never in a band because of that . |