Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headlights revealed only the worn flagstones of the farmyard , the archway into the byre on the ground floor of the house , the crumbling steps that had once given access to the living quarters above . |
| 2 | A thorough search of the Sea Rover revealed only the charred remnants of what was later analysed as cannabis , blowing around the decks . |
| 3 | As it turned out , by 1989 Britain got only the half-built Sizewell B. |
| 4 | The connection was of particular significance when the site for the new Welshpool station was under consideration because the Company owned only the trackbed at Raven Square and is indebted to Powis Estates for providing the site for the station and car park . |
| 5 | But her family owned only the upper floor of Damiani 's old house . |
| 6 | I registered only the habitual glow of pleasurable comfort , but when I opened the envelope the reaction was one of electric shock . |
| 7 | However , the Government 's approach , conditioned by the sole objective of reducing expenditure , was far too narrow and attacked only the soft underbelly without reaching the heart of the problem . |
| 8 | Each of us in turn read aloud the splendid sentence ‘ The Board of Governors have pleasure in offering your son , Richard Simon Michael Ellis , the following School Scholarship . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ How many of them lacked only the good fortune that saved you ? ’ |
| 10 | Crohn 's disease was ileocolic in 10 cases , involved only the small bowel in nine patients , and 13 patients had colonic disease . |
| 11 | Police found only the broken-down Marina car , which had left Mrs Wilks , her 13-month-old son Mark , and her sister , Georgina Gough , 11 , stranded on the M50 near the Tewkesbury turn off . |
| 12 | In Pretty Boy Floyd , Woody Guthrie caught poetically the awesome and terrifying instrument through which corporate officials economically harm others . |
| 13 | The announcement of the election itself drew together the various elements in the Conservative party , and validated Baldwin 's decision to enter the National Government . |
| 14 | In language which coupled purity outrage with a conceptual grasp of eugenics and the new biology , Swiney drew together the major social problems — disease , feeble-mindedness , degeneracy and insanity — to expose male vice as the root cause of national decline : |
| 15 | Senate set up a working party under Professor Furmston , Council asked consultants Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte to look at the matter , convocation set up an ad hoc working group to respond to the first two reports , and the Vice-Chancellor produced a report for Council which drew together the common threads in all three . |
| 16 | In practical terms this meant that , say , creating the illusion of a glass of wine was relatively easy , since it involved merely the subtle shifting of light patterns . |
| 17 | Mihal beat away the burning logs with his club while Martin rushed in and picked up the old man . |
| 18 | Working with creatures of such speed it was important that he used exactly the right type of camera . |
| 19 | If he behaved normally the other boys stepped back and did not respond . |
| 20 | I think I found just the tiny |
| 21 | Umpteen four-bedroomed houses later , we were wondering if it really was the right thing to do : every time we found just the right place , the surveyor 's report showed movement of the north wall , or some other equally expensive-to-repair problem . |
| 22 | She cast away the unwelcome thought that if she was made redundant she would have to find new work immediately or forfeit that small oasis of security she 'd won for herself . |
| 23 | On Feb. 20 President Blaise Compaore suspended indefinitely the National Reconciliation Forum on democracy , human rights and development which had begun meeting in Ouagadougou on Feb. 11 [ for January preliminary discussions see p. 38709 ] . |
| 24 | He moved aside the folded tephillim and uncovered five neatly-bound books . |
| 25 | He called the longer pieces Harmony Music , but used also the alternative affectionate generic term ‘ Shed Music ’ , referring to the place where the group rehearsed . |
| 26 | Gavin Tosh , of Fuel Contracts at Peel Park , visited both the Czech Republic and Slovakia recently to discuss the project with representatives of the nuclear industry in both countries . |
| 27 | In the drawing used here the effortless decision has been chosen in preference to the one that required a little more effort . |
| 28 | The central thesis is that from about 1850 onwards various experiments were made in paper production which changed drastically the estimated life of books . |
| 29 | In 1717 he was appointed with Abraham Stanyan [ q.v. ] joint mediator at the Austro-Turkish peace congress at Passarowitz , a task he discharged ably the following year and for which he was well rewarded . |
| 30 | Reformers led by Mr Imre Pozsgay and Mr Rezso Nyers changed even the communist party 's name . |