Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faldo took his 1992 winnings to a world record £1.5m , while Norman 's only consolation was that the £190,234 runner's-up cheque made him the first player in history to breech the $10 million barrier in career earnings . |
| 2 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 3 | He was never equal to Self in Citrine 's esteem , and he remained jealous of intervention by Self in matters of engineering and the development of policy on the generation side , for which his background and experience made him the natural senior voice among other engineers and managers . |
| 4 | The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth . |
| 5 | In a follow-up survey , the great majority rated it the best AIDS resource they had seen . |
| 6 | Sussex , though , are unlikely to be among the cynical chorus , not after their slip-up against the Minor Counties on a Marlow marsh made them the 14th first-class county in 55– or 6–overs play to have their colours lowered by junior opposition . |
| 7 | He was immediately dispatched to the scene , where his energy , intelligence and presence of mind made him the chief decision-taker in the first days after the explosion of reactor number four . |
| 8 | It was only when the high priest asked him the direct question : |
| 9 | A sudden drop in the wind told her the worst was over . |
| 10 | As the dreamsun showed us the insubstantial outlines of the City down in the valley , we faded to white . |
| 11 | The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars . |
| 12 | The Brazilian agent saw me the next morning . |
| 13 | Dot gave her the violet-patterned hanky that used to belong to Henrietta Forbes-Read to wipe her eyes . |
| 14 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The brooch gave us the right clue — in fact it gave us two . |
| 16 | Daddy and Mummy greeted her the next morning . |
| 17 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 18 | At Cabinet on the Wednesday morning the Chancellor reported what the Foreign Secretary ( still confined to his house ) proposed to say . |
| 19 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 20 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 21 | When he was at school another boy told him the Chinese see a rabbit in the moon . |
| 22 | ‘ That lady tamed him the first time he set eyes on her . |
| 23 | daft anyway and nine times out of ten you 've got to look at him and speak to him and that because he ca n't understand and er bloke gave him the verbal . |
| 24 | The thought of the delicious lunch gave me the extra boost I needed to reach the summit . |
| 25 | No give but his mark on his last test gave him the final average of fourteen marks for X plus two tests . |
| 26 | Saturday 's quintet gave him the remarkable tally of 15 wins from the 35 races run on the Flat in Ireland in 1992 . |
| 27 | My grandson asked me the other morning , when was I gon na die ? |
| 28 | In Soho , hell-bent on a good time , her tremendous vitality made her the female counterpart of Minton . |
| 29 | He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month . |
| 30 | Rain showed him the offending paragraphs . |