Example sentences of "[pron] soon [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I soon noticed the influence of military training . |
| 2 | My great fishing love , until then , had been Lady Tweed , but I soon discovered the South Tyne was every bit as good , if not better , than the Queen of Scottish rivers ; and the stretch below our house was far enough upstream and far enough downstream from the main population centres to make it almost completely private . |
| 3 | I soon had the bike back in working order and if the distances were n't too great , I would ride while the others rode in the van . |
| 4 | Crowe offered a pathetic excuse about investigating woodworm infestation for his nature column , but I soon beetled the truth out of him . |
| 5 | She followed him back into the little harness store and sat down on a bench while he lit the paraffin stove which soon filled the room with its smell and heat . |
| 6 | The war brought , however , a number of naval victories and 1740 saw the first performance of Rule Britannia , which soon acquired the status of a second national anthem . |
| 7 | Paxton was a young gardener at Chatsworth when , encouraged by the 6th Duke , he built a giant conservatory 300 feet long , 145 feet wide by 60 feet high which soon attracted the world 's attention and led to Paxton being commissioned to build the Crystal Palace for the Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 8 | She soon left the table and went into the fields , feeling the pain in the story . |
| 9 | Driving once more as fast as she dared , she soon reached the pet shop and saw that Mr Miller was occupied with a customer . |
| 10 | Because she looked like a sparrow , for which the French slang is ‘ Piaf ’ , she soon adopted the name and from then on was known by nothing else . |
| 11 | In the bathroom she soon removed the mud . |
| 12 | She soon found the path and began the climb . |
| 13 | Before returning from England I had been able to recruit a very competent English journalist , F.W. Benton , who soon improved the quality of our English daily . |
| 14 | Before CD ‘ thought of Mr Pickwick ’ and wrote the first number , he had already gained for himself more freedom in the conduct of his story than Seymour and his publishers had originally intended , but the sudden death of Seymour when he had completed only 3 of the 4 illustrations for No. ii , and his replacement by the young artist Hablot K. Browne ( who soon adopted the signature ‘ Phiz ’ to parallel CD 's ‘ Boz ’ ) , contributed to the dominance of text over illustrations : from No. iii on the plates were reduced to 2 per number and the pages of text increased from 26 to 32 . |
| 15 | This satisfied few but left the way open for the Bolsheviks who soon controlled the army and all communications and transport in Petrograd . |
| 16 | We soon discovered the reason why — the floorboards had been laid directly on to earth . ’ |
| 17 | The weather improved and , although the roads were clogged with icy mud , we soon reached the Channel port where Benjamin used his warrants and his status to secure our passage home on a man-o'-war . |
| 18 | We soon reached the house , and came to a gate in the wall . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's only five minutes ’ walk , ’ he said , and sure enough , we soon reached the pool at the foot of the waterfall . |
| 20 | We soon got the hang of this ; though it felt like we were performing a weird new dance . |
| 21 | They soon assumed the role of Sunni champions against Shiite Persia , some of the time taking and retaking territory from one another . |
| 22 | They found the cutting and scrambled down the slopes of the cutting enjoying the freedom , the old hut looked interesting and they soon explored the area , that had reverted back to nature . |
| 23 | The Romans were great organisers , and as they needed to feed their legions to survive , they soon improved the way in which farming was done . |
| 24 | They soon left the estate , crossed the highway , and entered the park around Maran Hill . |
| 25 | They still ( like Citrine himself ) lacked the threshold level of knowledge necessary to make serious contributions to the more technical decisions , but they soon acquired the expertise to translate known needs into appropriate Whitehall language , according to the changing fashions dictated by public opinion or cabinet preoccupations . |
| 26 | To conclude this section , it is clear that the approaches to aesthetic control in post-war urban Britain began well , though they soon attracted the hostility first of architects and then of the lay public . |
| 27 | It soon took the lead staying close for an hour , and left shortly before we saw Lake Angelus . |
| 28 | In the 16th century , the turkey was imported into England by Yorkshireman William Strickland , and it soon usurped the swan as the favoured traditional dish of the nobility . |
| 29 | for Colchester , it soon became the family 's principal , indeed only , country seat . |
| 30 | It soon became the language of Parliament , then of the Cabinet and of most areas of the civil service ; the law courts also began to use it . |