Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
| 2 | None of them shared the icy restraint of the last letter . |
| 3 | Behind them hulked the great mass of Shunner Fell below the flanks of which the Butter Tubs Pass wormed its way over into Wensleydale . |
| 4 | But the flow of immigrants went on , with very little space to receive the new settlers , so in 1628 some of them made the easy move from St. Kitts to Nevis , and a couple of years later made a slightly longer move and occupied the islands of Antigua and Monserrat , laying the foundations of English settlement in the Leeward Islands . |
| 5 | Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team . |
| 6 | ‘ My guess is that one of them found the other end of the conduit , maybe the Fax machine at Pegasus or evidence of Cawthorne acting on information he should n't have had . |
| 7 | Starting with William Morris in the 1870s , a group of them found the medieval setting , craft traditions and stunning landsacapes they wanted in which to work . |
| 8 | The enormous success of the BBC 's Follow Me demonstrated the huge scale of the demand . |
| 9 | Above them rose the poor fields , littered with rock and gorse , the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 10 | It was not known how many of them caught the connecting flight to Katmandu . |
| 11 | Three weeks ago I became the proud owner of a Chihuahua and he 's changed my life completely . |
| 12 | When we got home , Dad came to the rescue , with the necessary bob ( as a shilling was called ) and so , on the following day , I became the proud owner of my very own tool set . |
| 13 | Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars . |
| 14 | So I became the only bluesman in Kensal Green . |
| 15 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 16 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 17 | I asked the Assistant Commissioner to let me go to Helsinki and he refused . |
| 18 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 19 | It was a clear night , but the radar was a mass of echoes and I asked the Belgian contact to give me an estimated course and speed of our quarry , and as a result of this we were able to pick it up . |
| 20 | I asked the new director there , John Hutchinson , whether this concerned him . |
| 21 | I asked the Chief Accountant . |
| 22 | I put that as an amendment , not reiterating the entire Labour budget , but I asked the Liberal Democrats , who purport to want to erm provide that sort of service to vulnerable people could they not accept that extra half a million pounds as an amendment , and two out of the group abstained , the rest of them voted against that as an amendment . |
| 23 | I asked the hon. Member before to bring the matter to my office . |
| 24 | I wanted to introduce Dana to Pernod , so I asked the old man for ‘ dos Pernod ’ . |
| 25 | I asked the old man why |
| 26 | I asked the old man about this client from the North and he remembered her . ’ |
| 27 | I asked the old man , his nose almost level with the steering wheel of his equally elderly car . |
| 28 | I asked the Czech manager if they would be at Rutland Water in June and he said they would not be able to afford it . |
| 29 | Mummy was coming rather slowly , so I asked the little girl her name . |
| 30 | He goes on : ‘ I asked the whole frame of the world about my God ; and it answered me , ‘ I am not he , but he made me . ’ ’ |