Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] the " in BNC.

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1 However that may be , Cnut 's considerable generosity to Canterbury implies that he did have good relations with Æthelnoth , and this possibly made him the more determined to control the selection of his successor .
2 This also made him the winner of the European League of the World Cup , with the final in Del Mar , California , on April 15–19 as his next major task .
3 She bought a choc-bar ice-cream on the way , and this immediately gave him the illusion of proxy licence that he always felt upon seeing the thin and flawless elude the rules .
4 That just gave him the more confidence . ’
5 At first the Romans consolidated their position in central Italy , moving north only in the third-century BC , when the battle of Mediolanum in 222 BC won them the most important city on the Lombardy Plain .
6 Sir William Anstruther-Gray formally declared him the victor and his election was duly rubber-stamped at the ceremonial party meeting six days later .
7 Ethel ran out of the door with the frightening single-mindedness that later made her the most successful Tiller Girl .
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