Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] 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 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 3 | I only asked him the other day |
| 4 | ‘ But you only saw me the other night ! |
| 5 | Erm before I sent , I only did it the other day , I regret to say any rate . |
| 6 | Terry eagerly gave me the whole picture ; he seemed to know enough about Pyke to write his biography . |
| 7 | On the strength of this scanty victory ( 23,000 votes , i.e. 28 per cent of the total number cast ) this largely unknown candidate was now treated by the media as ‘ the front runner ’ and ‘ the man to beat ’ , allowing him to gather the momentum that finally brought him the Democratic nomination . |
| 8 | I would have understand if he 'd dived and got out their way and the wind just blew it the other end . |
| 9 | So I just gave them the statutory amount per tape |
| 10 | Has no one ever taught you the gracious art of how to accept help when it 's offered ? ’ |
| 11 | We always called it the posh part , because although our street carried on from it over the main road , it was like being in a different village altogether . |
| 12 | But serious or lighthearted Central News always brought you the offbeat , like the catfish who loved to be fed by hand . |
| 13 | ‘ I liked your family very much , but you deliberately gave them the wrong impression about me , ’ she said angrily . |
| 14 | He soon became a permanent fixture in our Southern and United League teams and his delicate ball-playing skills rapidly earned him the quaint nickname ‘ Lady ’ , and a special place in the affections of Palace supporters . |
| 15 | And yet she openly admitted it the other day . |
| 16 | Because the market for meals is in competitive equilibrium we saw that the marginal cost curve for films also told us the marginal value of the meals being sacrificed to make the last film . |
| 17 | Treatment improved since it nearly lost us the Crimean War . |
| 18 | Indeed , it was a precocious interest in Wealden fossils that led to the assembly of a large and valuable collection that was donated in 1884 to the newly opened Natural History Museum in South Kensington , and which gained him not only the title of honorary collector for the museum but also brought him the coveted fellowship of the London Geological Society at the age of twenty-one . |
| 19 | Mrs Green also sent me the cardboard box in which the gift had come and , curious to find out more about the cake 's origins , I rang the Yorkshire Farm Bakery . |
| 20 | The champagne reception — at which Kylie began to demonstrate for the first time a new found confidence with both press and public — also gave them the perfect opportunity to milk their golden child 's latest achievement , three UK gold discs for ‘ Kylie ’ the LP , and the singles ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ and ‘ Got To Be Certain ’ . |
| 21 | We shall be leaving Peking for Sian at 11.30 this evening , and the comrades have given us a rousing send off with beautiful presents including a big embroidered tablecloth and napkins , and a beautiful framed picture made out of shells , with an inscription written on it specially for & I. They also gave us the enclosed photos , which give you an idea of what life is like here . |
| 22 | They put it on to tape and called it ‘ Cossachok ’ , but later gave it the proper title of ‘ Hopak ’ . |
| 23 | His great courage at the time eventually earned him the Military Cross , but the harrowing experience was for a long while foremost in his mind and symbolized by the walk back to his commanding officer over a mass of dead German and British soldiers in which his feet scarcely touched the ground . |
| 24 | Gould virtually admitted it the other day . ’ |
| 25 | Annunziata , who had accepted the hug , made Julia get back into bed and then told her the whole story . |
| 26 | The owner then swapped me the beautiful picture with which he had boarded his shed window . |
| 27 | For working-class girls ( unlike middle-class girls , for whom comprehensives potentially offered them the academic education denied to many under the systems of 11 + weighting ) comprehensives probably made little difference . |
| 28 | So a cat entering your house and being welcomed there gave you the good luck of having the Devil on your side . |
| 29 | And he either phoned me the following morning or if it was n't the following morning it was the one after that . |
| 30 | About to make a flippant reply , she checked herself and instead gave him the exact truth . |