Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was only when the high priest asked him the direct question : |
| 4 | As the dreamsun showed us the insubstantial outlines of the City down in the valley , we faded to white . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dot gave her the violet-patterned hanky that used to belong to Henrietta Forbes-Read to wipe her eyes . |
| 7 | ‘ The brooch gave us the right clue — in fact it gave us two . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At Cabinet on the Wednesday morning the Chancellor reported what the Foreign Secretary ( still confined to his house ) proposed to say . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 12 | When he was at school another boy told him the Chinese see a rabbit in the moon . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The thought of the delicious lunch gave me the extra boost I needed to reach the summit . |
| 15 | No give but his mark on his last test gave him the final average of fourteen marks for X plus two tests . |
| 16 | Saturday 's quintet gave him the remarkable tally of 15 wins from the 35 races run on the Flat in Ireland in 1992 . |
| 17 | My grandson asked me the other morning , when was I gon na die ? |
| 18 | In Soho , hell-bent on a good time , her tremendous vitality made her the female counterpart of Minton . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Rain showed him the offending paragraphs . |
| 21 | The king personally rewarded him with the Victorian Order , fourth class , but broke off relations when the disgruntled recipient of the decoration returned it the following day . |
| 22 | If he is n't , it does n't matter what he knows and he can go over my head any day he likes and make the Assistant Commissioner read him the whole report if he wants to . |
| 23 | Atlantic City 's vast beach and boardwalk made it the American seaside resort of the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 25 | That night Anthony 's wife sent me the following balm from Chequers : |
| 26 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |
| 27 | BORIS BECKER last night gave himself the perfect 25th birthday present , demolishing Jim Courier to become ATP world champion and end a disappointing year in triumph . |
| 28 | He loved his ‘ Jocks ’ without a trace of condescension , and when he took over the regiment as lieutenant-colonel in North Africa and Italy , his double-barrelled beer name earned him the affectionate sobriquet of ‘ Colonel Screwtop ’ . |
| 29 | Kenneth Horne 's rich , fruity voice and warm patrician manner made him the ideal link man and that , coupled with a mischievous sense of humour , ensured that any programme in which he was involved was the better for his presence . |
| 30 | From an early age , his mother and father showed him the illustrated books on the subject which they had brought back from London , and described at length the wonders of the ballets they had seen danced there by the Diaghilev company , ‘ when they were young and in love ’ , as John put it later . |