Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd added only the four to his overnight single , then fell to Rafeill — caught Mark Taylor . |
| 2 | He told me he 'd said much the same to you . ’ |
| 3 | I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess . |
| 4 | If she 'd had only the clerical level of interface that she was supposed to have , she 'd never have found it . |
| 5 | The difficulty factors noted covered both the general size of the number concerned and , more importantly , the need to put in spacing zeros to establish the place value of a digit . |
| 6 | Gradually a mixed bag of cossacks , exiles and peasants settled the area , and as the natives became pacified so the military flavour declined . |
| 7 | Lat searched his own eyes and saw reflected there the mingled emotions that haunted his mind . |
| 8 | Although various thinkers before him had formulated much the same basic principle of utility as basic to ethics none had used it so systematically as the basis for rethinking all moral and social arrangements . |
| 9 | Julius 's dark brown eyes held an odd gleam of triumph , as if he had realised exactly the same thing . |
| 10 | He smilingly proffered me a cup of watered wine in one of the goblets I had hidden away the previous evening . |
| 11 | Groups spoke of ‘ strategies ’ and making ‘ career moves ’ ; the jargon of the Harvard Business School had banished forever the Utopian cliches of Woodstock , and the anarchist ones of punk . |
| 12 | Numbers were small ; but a final case study approach revealed that for people who lived alone , had no informal carer who could manage all necessary care ; and had a high level of cognitive impairment , the Home Support Project was likely to prolong home care beyond that of those who had received only the usual services . |
| 13 | The first being that he had driven such motor cars before , and the second that he had consumed only the barest minimum of champagne . |
| 14 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 15 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 16 | The police decided that the murderer had carried away the other half . |
| 17 | Exactly one week later , on 5 April 1988 , the Colemans arrived back in Nicosia , moving into an apartment just vacated by Ibrahim El-Jorr , the Lebanese-American DEA informant whom Coleman had met briefly the previous year and who was now to be his co-worker in Operation Dome , reassessing the Lebanese narcotics trade at the start of a new opium-growing season . |
| 18 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 19 | Liverpool 's third came from Phil Boersma near the end , after Kevin Keegan had done all the hard work . |
| 20 | The revolution of 1905 had made plain the disruptive power of the industrial labour force . |
| 21 | He asked if I was a friend of the other young chap who had made exactly the same enquiry of him ten days ago . ’ |
| 22 | Storm clouds outside had made even the stained glass windows a uniform grey . |
| 23 | She had known with all her soul that she had made just the right decision . |
| 24 | A few days before , in an interview with The Economist , Ms Tyson had made precisely the same point . |
| 25 | Well , that was natural ; only a short time ago , when Rick Lawrence was the quarry , Melissa had felt exactly the same . |
| 26 | She had felt much the same herself of late , restless , needing to work off that restlessness , only she had n't had the same opportunities to indulge herself . |
| 27 | Robyn had thought much the same on numerous occasions but she was n't about to give him the satisfaction of letting him know that . |
| 28 | The physicists who felt they had left their successors with little more to do than to clean up a few minor problems expressed the same mood as August Schleicher , who was sure that ancient Aryans had talked exactly the putative language which he had reconstructed for them . |
| 29 | The English pundit , John Reason , hardly gives the impression that endearing himself to Scots is high among his priorities , but many surely enjoyed his observation that , by the time Dume had peeled away the last player obscuring his verdict , Turnbull must have felt he had been down there longer than Tutankhamen . |
| 30 | Before the accidental drowning of her husband four years earlier , she and Martin had needed only the occasional companionship of friendly acquaintances to affirm their self-sufficiency . |