Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only got us the £15 at The Marquee for doing a show for Radio London , the old pirate radio station . |
| 2 | ‘ I only realised what the problem was when I went to Kenya straight after Twin Cities . |
| 3 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 4 | A host of examples can be cited throughout the period of Stewart rule up to 1542 ; the fate of the mighty earls of Douglas at the hands of James II in the mid fifteenth century , the case , enshrined in ballad , of the over-confident border reiver Johnnie Armstrong , who suddenly found himself the victim of the utter ruthlessness of James V , tell the same story about how royal power was exercised in Scotland . |
| 5 | He erm , he left school , he only told them the day before . |
| 6 | The issue was that the receivers had sufficient liquid assets to pay themselves and then terminate the receivership if they only paid themselves the amount of remuneration which B and L thought was due to them . |
| 7 | I could make no further headway with the landlord so I made enquiries amongst the other customers : a beggar who whined for alms inside the doorway and a greasy-haired knave , but they only repeated what the landlord had said . |
| 8 | God alone knew what the girl did after the golden boy had gone off to sell his 57 varieties , heaven only knew why she could n't get herself dressed before ten o'clock . |
| 9 | God alone knew what the traffic would be like on the freeway , through the mean streets of Edgware , down to the inferno that was the A406 , on through gloomy Tolworth and Chessington , out to the no-man's-land that was Leatherhead . |
| 10 | Garway 's resistance to exclusion perhaps earned him the respect of the government of James II . |
| 11 | Helen Crane , an ex-secretary , valued her job because it not only gave her the experience of autonomy , but it publicly valued her exercise of this responsibility : |
| 12 | ‘ There 's an inside to things , ’ he explained , ‘ and print only gave me the outside . |
| 13 | Maybe he just did n't think when they showed him it , that it was n't the right one cos I suppose if you 've seen them every day you do n't , it does n't register it 's just the fact that of course your dad only gave him the price of the blue and white |
| 14 | We , you only gave us the themes . |
| 15 | ‘ So did I. The feeling wears off . ’ |
| 16 | So set yourself the task of suggesting a simple argument or answer and then you can try to make out a case for it . |
| 17 | ‘ And who unkindly told her the truth ? ’ |
| 18 | In minds less critical and less sophisticated than Augustine 's , relics soon became themselves the seats of holy power , God 's preferred channels for miraculous action . |
| 19 | Moving to Guildford , Leese 's fanaticism and his willingness to devote all his time and resources to the new movement soon made him the fulcrum of racial nationalist activity in Britain . |
| 20 | But it was n't Jozef who finally told me the truth — which of the three suspects had taken the pieces of silver . |
| 21 | No I just told her the truth , I wanted wanted some of her |
| 22 | ‘ I already told you the truth . ’ |
| 23 | When , at the end of two hours , they finally showed him the document and he acknowledged what had happened , ‘ there was a sigh from the assembled people . ’ |
| 24 | Her arguments were ridiculed by Tobias Smollett [ q.v. ] ( a former pupil of Smellie 's ) in an essay in the Critical Review ( 1760 ) , which nevertheless paid her the compliment of insinuating that her husband must have written the book . |
| 25 | He just handed me the photograph of Sam , then took the letters and walked away . |
| 26 | Then I began to run into the guards , and every guard I saw , I did n't say anything , I just showed them the piece of paper which had written on it Hotel Intourist in Russian , and the phrase book . |
| 27 | Benetton just showed us the pictures not the background to the pictures . |
| 28 | So that stuck and eventually when that place folded and we came over here , er we just called them the Dollies and that was , they were referred to , everybody knew who they were , |
| 29 | The Virginia Company had itself produced a subsidiary company which occupied the islands at first known officially as Somers Islands — though when Shakespeare wrote The Tempest some people already called them the Bermoothes , and Bermuda it remained for posterity . |
| 30 | It was too late not to finish the sentence and she already knew what the sentence meant anyway … ‘ not long for this world — on his way out — dying ’ … words which were impossible to say . |