Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this she knocked away the snow from the lettering — but then found she could n't make out the words in the dark . |
| 2 | In 1885 she took over the management of the embroidery section of Morris & Company , her father 's firm . |
| 3 | In order to do this he followed up the material throughout its various processes , and plotted its progress on a chart or series of charts . |
| 4 | Trance-like he drove down the Edgware Road , responding to the multitudinous traffic lights with mechanical movements , while the agitated Eleanor continued to lash his unreceptive ear with a never-ending stream of abuse . |
| 5 | In 1684 he turned over the retail side of his business to Francis Saunders and his partner Joseph Knight . |
| 6 | On his father 's death in 1867 he took over the business , and in the 1871 census he was described as ‘ chemist and dealer in foreign stamps ’ . |
| 7 | The paper also discussed erm the proposed topics for discussion at the enquiry in public it explained where the county council 's er relevant policies would be found in the extra electory memorandum it outlined the key objections and the proposed participants for each topic . |
| 8 | She drew in her breath at the simplicity of it , wondering why she had n't thought of it before , and it excited her so much she put forward the suggestion without stopping to think if it was wise . |
| 9 | A college for women had been Mrs Reid 's dream from childhood , and in 1849 she put up the money to found Bedford College , hoping for hundreds of applications but in fact receiving at first only a few dozen , including those of her own friends . |
| 10 | In section 2.1 we saw how the Pauling scale of electronegativities of elements was based on bond enthalpies . |
| 11 | From 1963 they filled in the gully and fenced the land . |
| 12 | Sadler had articulated the political sentiment in his Manchester inquiry when he remarked on how education was but one aspect of ‘ a many sided problem ’ , and as such it necessitated both the development of individuality and personal conviction and ‘ a sense of national duty and obligation towards the State ’ , which could only come through ‘ better and more systematic training for the duties of citizenship and for home-making and family claims ’ . |
| 13 | Reporting between 1976 and 1979 it showed how the share of the before-tax distribution of wealth of the top ten per cent had fallen from nearly 30 per cent in 1959 to 26.6 per cent in 1974–5 . |
| 14 | In 1236 he had both the honour of carrying the sceptre at the queen 's coronation , and the disgrace of imprisonment through a court cabal . |
| 15 | In An Englishwoman ‘ s Work among Workingmen , 1875 she recounted how the dramatic language of evangelical religion enabled her to press her case : |
| 16 | After that she took out the contents of the red velvet box Marc had pressed into her hand that morning and put on the pearl earrings that had once belonged to her beloved 's grandmother , knowing that now she had a right to them . |
| 17 | I 'm glad you brought in the subject of , the leader of the Labour Council er in which means I am not deviating , and saying that Mister and saying that Mister is now running a moderate Council . |
| 18 | Erm , I 'd like to , I 'm glad you picked up the children looked after by the local authority , but what bothers me is the children in families that are causing concern rather than for those that are actually erm , in care . |
| 19 | In 1984 he took over the occupancy of 84 acres of land near Gosforth in Tyne and Wear which was owned by the Ashdale Land and Property Company . |
| 20 | By 1984 he plucked up the courage ( or obtained the permission ) to do the two things he really wanted : make wine from Pinot Gris ( originally a Burgundian grape ) as a Burgundian would , fermenting and maturing it in ( partly new ) French oak barriques ; and stop filtering his dry white wines . |
| 21 | He could tell I fancied her myself , so I assumed he was just making sure I knew how the land lay . |
| 22 | I was supposed to get up this morning at half six to fe , make sure you got out the bath properly . |
| 23 | Actually , there was a footpath through Wardle Wood from near her village , and if she had dared to go along it she could have walked to Brownies in not much more time than it took her to ride by way of the long winding lane ; but she was sure she had n't the courage to go through the witch 's wood by herself . |
| 24 | She made doubly sure she knew where the paper bags , the brown wrapping paper , the string and the roll of Sellotape were kept . |
| 25 | Back at Napo , the young cocoa trees in the nursery were growing well , and in February 1981 we planted out the first trees in our ‘ gene bank ’ . |
| 26 | When peace came again in 1918 we followed up the production of reversible wool rugs with the making of chenille Axminster carpets . |
| 27 | Thistle made sure they kept up the pressure on Alex Totten 's men by defeating Falkirk at Fir Hill , with Alan Dinnie scoring the winner . |
| 28 | In 1764 he wrote there the first Gothic novel , The Castle of Otranto , which , in his Description of Strawberry Hill , he connects directly with the house : ‘ A very proper habitation of , as it was the scene that inspired , the author . |
| 29 | He built his first car by the time he was 18. in 1909 he took over the Molsheim factory near Strasbourg and set about developing the greatest racing car in the world . |
| 30 | But he 'd made sure he knew where the quarry lived . |