Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised this the first time I saw her dressed up to go out — excited , nervous and yet so alive . |
| 2 | Then we almost enjoyed the Great Escape from Seve Ballesteros who followed Paul Azinger into the Mickey Mouse blue-dyed water which made this the greatest spectator show on earth … |
| 3 | Cos I got this the wrong way round . |
| 4 | No , I tried that the other day . |
| 5 | ‘ I found this the other day , I really could n't resist it . ’ |
| 6 | An office was rented in St Albans and a small staff was appointed , with Michael Hardman as the first editor of publications , responsible for both What 's Brewing and the new and immediately successful Good Beer Guide , which listed all the known outlets for real ale . |
| 7 | Rory , using this , allowed the car to swing over the white line , invited all the hard lads and the death-wishers to flash and honk and snarl at him . |
| 8 | They replaced the lights and they mended all the broken furniture . |
| 9 | EARLY-morning commuters on the A8 were simply minding their own business one day last week when they were set upon and assaulted by a driver who used all the remaining power of his ageing Vauxhall Senator to bludgeon his way in and out of traffic . |
| 10 | Like Tim Waters at Thresher , Ann Tonks has commissioned research and used all the available data to put new meaning into the company . |
| 11 | Instead he did the scientifically decent thing and used all the lovely lolly to grow things in . |
| 12 | Yeah we used all the old ones . |
| 13 | Sandra used all the recommended beauty products , but she did n't see herself in those pictures . |
| 14 | The south-facing windows caught all the available light which was meagre enough in the winter . |
| 15 | Her fingers were gentle but firm , and he sprawled back on his elbows and watched her as she lifted his foot on to her lap and massaged all the tired muscles . |
| 16 | The common sense , suburban philosophy of the accountant 's daughter from Surrey Hills — ‘ one thing at a time , ’ forever ringing in her ear — over-rode all the tempting words Stock , Aitken and Waterman and the money men of pop bombarded her with . |
| 17 | Fitted with a 100hp Sunbeam engine and averaging a speed of 90 mph , he out paced all the other competitors and won the race in what was to become true Alcock style ! |
| 18 | In September 1692 he produced a Whiggish Jacobite tract in which he rehearsed all the traditional charges against William ( adding to the list the recent massacre at Glencoe ) , and argued that " If it was to preserve our Liberties from the insults of King James , we placed the Prince upon the Throne , we have certainly either mistaken the Disease or the Cure " . |
| 19 | Terry sat looking anxious while Ellie carefully unpicked , altered , moved all the tiny buttons that ran down the back , rearranged the small bustle , put little tucks into the bustline to make it fit more snugly . |
| 20 | We took his four- poster bed down that he wanted taking down that he cherished for some peculiar reason , and then we moved all the other bits of furniture , and as we w were sort of getting most of the furniture out of the first bedroom he said Do n't forget the loft will you ? |
| 21 | The Polish scientist , W. Bielanski , reviewed all the available reports of foaling in mules and hinnies since 1527 — about 30 in she-mules and 2 or 3 in she-hinnies . |
| 22 | Alfred Yates and D. A. Pidgeon in Admission to Grammar Schools ( 1957 ) reviewed all the available evidence with scrupulous and objective care and concluded that the existing processes of selection could indeed be improved to yield more accurate results . |
| 23 | She supervised all the other vibrancers , both male and female , and choreographed performances . |
| 24 | We found all the little bits and pieces , the er , er , idiosyncrasies of how it had been prepared previously by yourself , |
| 25 | On her own as a mother , she had relaxed all the rules and found all the unexpected joys of being a parent . |
| 26 | One day Rachaela found all the coloured letters from Emma to Ruth in the waste-bin under the sink . |
| 27 | When Meg arrived at Uppark as its first chatelaine in many a year she found all the original fabrics in place , but hanging , through neglect , ‘ like grey seaweed ’ . |
| 28 | PageMaker also keeps track of all the bits of the galley so if a section is moved or deleted all the other portions move in sympathy . |
| 29 | erm we excluded all the superficial ones that had solid because it was insufficient er one patient we could n't get the stain to work . |
| 30 | ‘ He tried all the usual tricks . |