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	Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year !
5	No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down .
6	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 .
7	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 .
8	‘ But you only saw me the other night !
9	Erm before I sent , I only did it the other day , I regret to say any rate .
10	Terry eagerly gave me the whole picture ; he seemed to know enough about Pyke to write his biography .
11	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 .
12	I would have understand if he 'd dived and got out their way and the wind just blew it the other end .
13	For many years we sought access to him and the inner sanctum of his medieval palace , until in 1981 he finally gave us the first filmed interview ever granted by one of his line .
14	So I just gave them the statutory amount per tape
15	That just gave him the more confidence . ’
16	Has no one ever taught you the gracious art of how to accept help when it 's offered ? ’
17	But I still enjoyed it the second time .
18	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 .
19	But serious or lighthearted Central News always brought you the offbeat , like the catfish who loved to be fed by hand .
20	Burton always thought it the finest thing he ever did .
21	‘ I liked your family very much , but you deliberately gave them the wrong impression about me , ’ she said angrily .
22	‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that .
23	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 .
24	And yet she openly admitted it the other day .
25	When a care worker later approached her the 88 year old pleaded : ’ Do n't hit me . ’
26	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 .
27	Treatment improved since it nearly lost us the Crimean War .
28	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 .
29	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 .
30	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 ’ .

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