Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argues that a demand which emanated from the earnings of export staples became itself the driving force behind even greater efforts to balance the increasing import of desired English manufactured goods . |
| 2 | The panic attacks gave her the perfect excuse , as no blame could possibly be attributed to her . |
| 3 | His Italian background and film-star looks made him the appear like an Al Pacino character or the Sicilian reincarnation of a Scottish footballer . |
| 4 | Born Alfredo James Pacino he is still haunted by memories of growing up on the mean streets of New York 's South Bronx where his street gang pals called him The Actor . |
| 5 | ‘ I used to do a lot of home brewing and going round beer festivals gave me the idea of doing it for a living . |
| 6 | On top of that , scoring the third in the 3–1 win over the Sky Blues made him the youngest scorer of a First Division goal . |
| 7 | The red-and-white skull-cap above the monkey eyes gave him the air of a performing chimpanzee . |
| 8 | The National Union of Mineworkers and the oil sheikhs denied him the title . |