Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third John Booth provided much of the capital for his partners , Samuel and Aaron Walker , when they established the business that eventually made them the leading ironmasters in the North of England . |
| 2 | The TA course 's patrolling is coming on well and the visitor has moved on to see What the junior intake is doing . |
| 3 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 4 | Jacqui had only given him the Christian name . |
| 5 | It has become a familiar complaint of managers this season , dissatisfied that the ‘ brave new world ’ of the Premier League merely offers them the same problems as the old . |
| 6 | Which not only guarantees you the widest choice possible but also allows you complex control over the design of your beautiful new custom-built bedroom . |
| 7 | I only asked him the other day |
| 8 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 9 | I rather like the Nimbus set , despite the generous acoustics and the occasional technical frailty , as not only has one the inestimable benefit of hearing the music shaped , balanced , and paced in a way that at least approximates the sort of thing Schubert originally had in mind , but they all sound as though they 're having such a jolly good time ( one palls at the though of all those ghastly , poe-faced Schubert records which litter the catalogue ) . |
| 10 | Well they 'd basically do what the British troops would do but they would n't lose much hate against them would they ? |
| 11 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
| 12 | No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down . |
| 13 | Erm which basically says what the main issues throughout the year were . |
| 14 | Making a test piece will not only give you the correct tension but will also show up how often you need to cross the cables . |
| 15 | A chronological table can only give us the bare outlines of a life : one asks three questions . |
| 16 | The most prominent families had no objection to service — it had long offered them the surest route to power , wealth , and prestige . |
| 17 | Sharpe told Ziegler what he knew , which merely confirmed what the Prussian Captain had already discovered for himself . |
| 18 | But organisation charts only give us the bare bones of the organisation 's structure and we should not be carried away with the idea that official descriptions tell us all . |
| 19 | Having bought the latest recommendation one month what do they do next when something comes along to supersede it the next ? |
| 20 | The wide strip will contain a language pattern which is well known to the pupils , eg give him the large book . |
| 21 | And what you need to do is , obviously indicate what the modern version is , next to that |
| 22 | It is not hard to portray the BR of the eighties Monty Python style with such stupidities as creating a semi-autonomous Cornish Railways with great enthusiasm one year only to abandon them the next as though that were equally great progress . |
| 23 | All the right ingredients seem to be there : so it 's easy enough to persuade yourself the sharp steering , smooth increase in turbo power in the mid-range , quick-shifting gear change and body-hugging seats imply something of a breakthrough by Detroit . |
| 24 | You knew from the beginning the terms of the thing , and if you tried to make it more serious than that , you only lost him the quicker . |
| 25 | A man of ninety suddenly finds himself the oldest man in the village not necessarily because he is ninety but because a man of ninety-one died yesterday . |
| 26 | The Baptists of Amersham were only doing what the universal Church had done for centuries in insisting on partaking in the Communion as a sign of being ‘ in communion ’ with the church . |
| 27 | They say they 're only doing what the local council would do if it was allowed . |
| 28 | A child must be old enough to understand what the natural consequences of his or her actions are likely to be . |
| 29 | I was wearier , I was more tolerant , that was the only difference and that change only enabled me the better to accept what I 'd always been . |
| 30 | But this only tells us the earliest date at which the book could have been written , not the latest date , which is of more interest . |