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

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1 But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common .
2 None of them shared the icy restraint of the last letter .
3 Everyone got the critical hots for Gotham 's rooftop dominatrix .
4 Behind them hulked the great mass of Shunner Fell below the flanks of which the Butter Tubs Pass wormed its way over into Wensleydale .
5 But the flow of immigrants went on , with very little space to receive the new settlers , so in 1628 some of them made the easy move from St. Kitts to Nevis , and a couple of years later made a slightly longer move and occupied the islands of Antigua and Monserrat , laying the foundations of English settlement in the Leeward Islands .
6 Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team .
7 ‘ My guess is that one of them found the other end of the conduit , maybe the Fax machine at Pegasus or evidence of Cawthorne acting on information he should n't have had .
8 Starting with William Morris in the 1870s , a group of them found the medieval setting , craft traditions and stunning landsacapes they wanted in which to work .
9 Attached to many early Christian communities were groups of ascetics , both men and women , some of whom demonstrated the supernatural character of their chastity by the sexes cohabiting , yet without sexual contact .
10 Nothing disturbed the even tenor of our days .
11 The enormous success of the BBC 's Follow Me demonstrated the huge scale of the demand .
12 Above them rose the poor fields , littered with rock and gorse , the lower slopes of the mountain .
13 It was not known how many of them caught the connecting flight to Katmandu .
14 Three weeks ago I became the proud owner of a Chihuahua and he 's changed my life completely .
15 When we got home , Dad came to the rescue , with the necessary bob ( as a shilling was called ) and so , on the following day , I became the proud owner of my very own tool set .
16 Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars .
17 So I became the only bluesman in Kensal Green .
18 Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head .
19 It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying .
20 I asked the Assistant Commissioner to let me go to Helsinki and he refused .
21 The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought .
22 It was a clear night , but the radar was a mass of echoes and I asked the Belgian contact to give me an estimated course and speed of our quarry , and as a result of this we were able to pick it up .
23 I asked the new director there , John Hutchinson , whether this concerned him .
24 I asked the Chief Accountant .
25 I put that as an amendment , not reiterating the entire Labour budget , but I asked the Liberal Democrats , who purport to want to erm provide that sort of service to vulnerable people could they not accept that extra half a million pounds as an amendment , and two out of the group abstained , the rest of them voted against that as an amendment .
26 I asked the hon. Member before to bring the matter to my office .
27 I wanted to introduce Dana to Pernod , so I asked the old man for ‘ dos Pernod ’ .
28 I asked the old man why
29 I asked the old man about this client from the North and he remembered her . ’
30 I asked the old man , his nose almost level with the steering wheel of his equally elderly car .
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