Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [art] [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 | Natural aptitude and a career in radio , film and television had helped him become an outstanding communicator — a strength chat not only made him a formidable campaigner , but also equipped him for the business of government in the television age . |
| 3 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 4 | After the two pictures for Leone , Van Cleef stayed in Europe to make pale imitations of them and only returned to Hollywood in 1970 for El Condor which unwisely made him a sympathetic character . |
| 5 | I only asked him the other day |
| 6 | It only revealed what a warm , decent nature you have . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I only met you a half hour ago and I love you like one of my own . ’ |
| 8 | Although in fact ultra vires , taxing many men worth less than £2 on goods must have been considered justified by circumstances , for their numbers alone made them an important element in the local community . |
| 9 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 10 | Clear skies allowed us to witness , once again , sensational scenery ; the worst storm of the summer only caught us a few hours away from Sasoma . |
| 11 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
| 12 | No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down . |
| 13 | Sharpe told Ziegler what he knew , which merely confirmed what the Prussian Captain had already discovered for himself . |
| 14 | Mr Rochester was in such a hurry that he only allowed me a short time to put on my wedding dress and veil . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've ruined my Gnome costume and perhaps lost me a lovely bicycle . ’ |
| 16 | But when I said as much to Mala , as a joke to ease the tension that still showed in her eyes , she merely called me an unrepeatable name and stalked away to her cabin again . |
| 17 | You knew from the beginning the terms of the thing , and if you tried to make it more serious than that , you only lost him the quicker . |
| 18 | I was wearier , I was more tolerant , that was the only difference and that change only enabled me the better to accept what I 'd always been . |
| 19 | It only took us a few seconds to realize the mistake but by then twenty-eight kids and three of the missionaries were either dead or dying . |
| 20 | And in that moment , Joseph suddenly knew who the three men were ; only Katherine Lundy 's men would be enquiring after Patrick . |
| 21 | O' course , I only knew him a few years after he got married . |
| 22 | ‘ But you only saw me the other night ! |
| 23 | I only saw him a few times and he seemed to wander around in no-man 's land half the time doing bugger all . |
| 24 | Now she suddenly thought what an interesting and novel item it would make in the fete if the Pack dressed up as Brownies through the years , showing the Brownie uniform from the first days to the present time . |
| 25 | ‘ I guessed , ’ he replied , and suddenly gave her a lop-sided grin — and all at once Leith discovered she was feeling most unexpectedly lighthearted . |
| 26 | Mr Steel merely gave him a black labrador puppy . |
| 27 | He said nothing more , merely gave her a last withering look before moving away . |
| 28 | Irishmen had long used it to denote ‘ complete ’ or ‘ permanent ’ , and Irish labourers brought it to Lancashire ; Turner did not invent the term , but merely gave it a new and more specialist application . |
| 29 | Erm before I sent , I only did it the other day , I regret to say any rate . |
| 30 | Fear of being ousted from Edward 's entourage by the king 's Poitevin half-brothers perhaps gave him a personal interest in the political upheaval of 1258 , which began with the half-brothers ' expulsion from England . |