Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being spurned by Malcolm McLaren only made him want the group more . |
| 2 | the strangeness of that thought suddenly made him miss the château . |
| 3 | There is no easy , obvious way to distinguish structural from other changes in the abstract , so let us approach the issue from an empirical , historical perspective . |
| 4 | To see why this is so let us consider the situation in the light of the foregoing argument . |
| 5 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 6 | Friends come in to help us gather the crop and press the grapes . |
| 7 | But I 've said the same before , only to hear someone use the same gadget and get a monster sound . |
| 8 | He showed us the whole lagoon ( it is very big ) , slowing down to let us see the most interesting parts , then hurtled off amid boiling clouds of spray to give us a thrill . |
| 9 | So in an effort to find out whether are blind , or they 're just weird , we asked a member of a party of visitors from Tokyo , Miss Takishima , to be kind enough to let us process the film in her camera . |
| 10 | The fact that our captors were confident and considerate enough to let us have the radio was almost as encouraging as the news we could at last listen to after two years of silence . |
| 11 | The intellect merely helps us choose the means by which we may best achieve ends dictated by our instincts . |
| 12 | After a time I found myself frequently addressing him as ‘ Father ’ , so naturally did he touch the gentle docile side of me . |
| 13 | Only once we were inside did we appreciate the immense scale of Wolio . |
| 14 | So greatly did they enjoy the celebrations that they stayed for three days . |
| 15 | She made for the new extension , hoping she had imagined that speculative look in her young assistant 's eye , and feeling that she 'd better let him think the Palmer & Pearson file had dropped on her desk while he was absent on Friday . |
| 16 | Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved . |
| 17 | In the Greek Church , the mystical writings of the fifth century author who wrote under the pseudonym of Dionysius the Areopagite achieved near-canonical status : not only did they inform the devotional and liturgical life of the people , but they also influenced the development of Orthodox theology which became hostile to any rationalistic or naturalistic ways of interpreting the reality of God and religious truth . |
| 18 | Not only did they make the move , but they also managed to negotiate some funding and an arrangement whereby their staff could continue to be trained on E&Y courses . |
| 19 | Not only did they wreck the London skyline in general . |
| 20 | Not only did they guard the bridge crossing the Tyne , but they also stood at the junction of the Stanegate , running west towards Carlisle , and Dere Street , one of the two main arterial routes from York into central southern Scotland . |
| 21 | Not only did they hit the target of 28 for January and February combined , they went on to chalk up a total of 64 ! |
| 22 | Not only did they run the longest steam-hauled train ever seen on the 20-mile line since BR days , but also set a new British mileage record for the longest continuous run of Beamish Museum 's replica ‘ Locomotion ’ . |
| 23 | He was exact in his choice ; not only did they have the same slender shape and were equal in height , but they were malleable too . |
| 24 | Rosie Milburn was a joker ; besides which , not only did she keep the house spotless but also she was a good cook . |
| 25 | Ianthe was glad when the woman and her child got out at the next station , for not only did she find the conversation embarrassing but she also wanted to think about the moments before her unexpected meeting with Agnes Dalby — moments which she had so far had no chance of reliving or considering . |
| 26 | And then I thought I would write and suggest that she should suggest herself to tea one day and not only did she have the effrontery to do so but she brought her husband . |
| 27 | We , too , should be grateful to Elizabeth ; not only did she have the foresight to bequeath a will for posterity to read , she also had the good taste — so rare in the family , alas — to be buried beneath a headstone which would retain its legibility over the years . |
| 28 | Not only did it meet the airline 's losses without the latter suffering any real penalty , but it enabled it to pursue its plans to take a 6 billion franc ( 37.5 per cent ) shareholding in the Belgian state-owned carrier Sabena , which was in an equally parlous financial state . |
| 29 | Not only did it designate the nature and appearance of crime , but it also reappeared as causally implicated : in both classical criminology and the new deviance perspective , the amount of crime was primarily a function of the operations of the criminal justice system . |
| 30 | Not only did it have the broad ideological stamp of approval from Marx and Engels themselves , but the preparation for it within Romania had started already in the late 1960s . |