Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As usual I popped into the second-hand bookshops and , as usual , failed to find any old golf books of any interest .
2 To achieve this they concentrated on the whole spectrum of damaging events in an area and explored their aggregate impact .
3 In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police .
4 Izanagi possessed a magical jewelled spear and this he flung into the endless water , creating the first land-mass from its point .
5 Fossils from more recent strata showed progressively less similarities with time in the different continents ; this he attributed to the contrasting evolutionary paths of groups of animals and plants separated by continental drift .
6 I can still remember how good that coffee tasted , and how different it tasted from the common-room coffee I was used to .
7 ‘ I 'm afraid it vanished along the main highway .
8 On Sept. 22 he resurfaced in the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este , declaring that he would not be returning to France to face charges because he had reason to fear an assassination attempt .
9 In 1979 I went to the English Schools Championships for the first time , to run in the 200 metres for London .
10 From 1888 he served on the new Cumberland county council , opposing the construction of roads over Lakeland passes , reducing mining pollution , and organizing the proper signposting of footpaths .
11 After that she sat on the morning-room steps watching the day slide off the face of Old Carrots field .
12 I 'm very glad I went into the Red Lion . ’
13 These I consigned to the waste-paper basket .
14 Between January 1939 and June 1940 she worked on the French–Spanish border to alleviate the wretchedness of the defeated Spanish Republicans , only leaving on the last boat to sail for Britain from Bordeaux .
15 The Chilean party , in alliance with Radicals and Socialists ( who had sprung up to challenge the Communists in 1932 ) won a popular Front victory in 1938 , and in 1946 they collaborated with the Radical party to win an election ( this time without the Socialists ) and participated briefly in the government .
16 Then at the age of 35 he moved to the ruined fortress of Pispir on the east bank of the Nile .
17 While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’
18 From the 1920s to the 1940s he acted as the principal representative of the provisional administration in Washington , having given up the presidency .
19 These he expressed in the Working Men 's Club and Institute Union , founded chiefly on his initiative on 14 June 1862 in London , becoming its first paid secretary in 1863 .
20 He had long ago accepted the feudal organization of Church and baronage as an adequate way of organizing the world : the real questions of salvation lay in a quite different area of experience , and on these he spoke with the simple and clear authority of a personal vision and prolonged thought .
21 We need the money , and from all I heard at the Gaudy , Somerville still deserves it .
22 In September 1922 I went to the Royal College of Music to study the piano under Harold Samuel ( the great Bach player of the time ) .
23 You sure you got the right , you sure you sent off the right husband this morning ?
24 Are you sure you sent off the right husband ?
25 In his spotless home , amongst his large and benevolent family , we were fed enormous meals , shown their exotic collection of shells and sponges , and pumped for all we knew about the outside world .
26 That 's all we did for the statutory undertakers .
27 He asserted that the good people of Inverness owed all they had to the previous conquest and occupation by Cromwell .
28 That was indeed an honour after all THEY played with the great man himself .
29 In 1964 he stood for the pretty safe ( at the time ) Conservative seat of Glasgow Pollok .
30 The more the UK Vehicle Division restricted output , the more sure it headed for the final chop . ’
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