Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 That made him the perfect fling .
2 This made him the ideal choice to fly this naval fighter .
3 This made him the intellectual heir of John Hunter , whose Essays and Observations he published with due filial piety in 1861 .
4 Some would say this made him the ideal publisher of a newspaper .
5 This made us the second most successful regional morning in the UK and one of only a handful of papers to increase annual sales .
6 This cost them the lead , and though they recovered well they could n't stop a second Risley boat , crewed by husband and wife team and , slipping through to take the chequered flag after five circuits .
7 The Autocrat , the chauffeur , the bodyguard : this showed them the gulf , the magical distance .
8 Er , and as well as the erm , staff reduction initiatives er , staff reduction initiatives that this showed you the savings er , in the year .
9 Another showed her the dark stains down his chest and across the dashboard and windscreen .
10 This gave her the opportunity to bleat even more madly , puffing noisily between bleats to prove how sorely she was being tried .
11 This gave her the entrée into many whispering galleries of politics and the drawing-rooms if not the corridors of power .
12 This gave me the opportunity of using homoeopathy in a general practice setting , while at the same time dealing with more chronic cases at the hospital where we had a consultant gynaecologist , an ENT surgeon and a consultant general surgeon , each operating once a week .
13 also , I was able to work at the painting knowing I could obliterate any unwanted areas ; this gave me the freedom I needed .
14 This gave me the chance to see many different military aircraft .
15 At 19 miles I was greeted by some close friends from college and again this gave me the extra energy I needed .
16 This gave him the opportunity to study Ballet , Pas de Deux , Repertoire , History of Ballet , Stagecraft and Lighting , and Ballet Music .
17 This gave him the idea of developing a method of switching on the fountain automatically , every time the pond was approached by a predator : easily achieved by adapting a passive infra-red detector .
18 All this gave him the confidence to state clearly what America 's interests were .
19 This gave them the key to predicting both the location and approximate intensity of the earthquakes , with a delay of between 7 and 11 hours from the prediction to the event .
20 This gave them the chance to sign against experiments with animals in the development of such products as perfumes .
21 ‘ Some of the lads had been feeling it and this gave them the chance to pay some of the bills that had been piling up .
22 We 'd been heavily blitzed and this gave us the opportunity to think big and boldly and to think philosophically .
23 This gave us the chance to offer a comprehensive service and also to develop FPC in its own market . ’
24 This earned him the unusual distinction of being elected to a fellowship of the society at the age of twenty-five ( 1852 ) .
25 Again , these gave them the advantage when it came to the swift ‘ attack-and-run ’ tactics which they frequently employed .
26 She took it for granted that each knew who the other was , and standing aside to motion him in she said : ‘ It 's good of you to be so accommodating , Mr Dalgliesh .
27 The participating banks each knew who the other participants were , but the figures in the report were presented so that readers could not work out which figures came from which bank .
28 That gave me the same charge as I remembered when I was a little kid and could memorise every record I had , who the publishing company was , how long the song was and what label it was on .
29 That gave me the chance to tell what Braden had done , sounding disgusted as I told it so Mendez would have no doubt what I thought about Braden 's trick .
30 That gave him the chance to exercise one of his talents , as a teacher , but he was also a bit of a musician , and soon established himself as the organist at the parish church in Holloway .
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