Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third John Booth provided much of the capital for his partners , Samuel and Aaron Walker , when they established the business that eventually made them the leading ironmasters in the North of England . |
| 2 | Somebody had apparently given her the matchbook and she had been carrying it around with her ever since . ’ |
| 3 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 4 | Jacqui had only given him the Christian name . |
| 5 | ‘ If you had only given us the Law : Dayenu ! … |
| 6 | It has become a familiar complaint of managers this season , dissatisfied that the ‘ brave new world ’ of the Premier League merely offers them the same problems as the old . |
| 7 | Nevertheless its roots have evidently been shallower than in Northern Ireland , where the absence of comprehensive schools perhaps made it the more necessary . |
| 8 | Which not only guarantees you the widest choice possible but also allows you complex control over the design of your beautiful new custom-built bedroom . |
| 9 | Give me the leave to make the best of my fortune and only pardon me the abuse of your house . |
| 10 | I only asked him the other day |
| 11 | It only got us the £15 at The Marquee for doing a show for Radio London , the old pirate radio station . |
| 12 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 13 | He is well liked and sticks to his brief come what may — a tactic that has rightly earned him the nickname of the ’ Bardic steamroller ’ . |
| 14 | The beauty of its setting and its predominantly stone buildings , allied with its intellectual traditions , have justly earned it the title of ‘ Athens of the North ’ . |
| 15 | But a boardroom vote of six to one in favour was not enough to secure him the position . |
| 16 | Yes , the continuous procedure only allows you the freedom to make changes if you need to . |
| 17 | If you want our marriage to have any chance of success you 'd better give her the sack first thing on Monday morning ! ’ |
| 18 | See you 've got your purse in your bag you better give me the money |
| 19 | ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . ) |
| 20 | But then I mean come and saw me once , you see , when I was n't there like that and he he tested from top to bottom , he said well ar ar after we sit and talked , and like he said well I better give you the once over , I said th er , certainly . |
| 21 | It was a monologue called ‘ Good News ’ , in which Beattie enthused down the phone at great length to a young man who 'd apparently done her the most enormous good turn . |
| 22 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
| 23 | But when he sent his ambassador to see if she were indeed as beautiful as men told , the Venetians would only show him the princess at nightfall , in an unlighted room . |
| 24 | No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down . |
| 25 | He erm , he left school , he only told them the day before . |
| 26 | Also it would be very wasteful of pump power and , depending where the transfer pipe entered the second filter/filter chamber , would not necessarily give you the oxygenation you wish for . |
| 27 | " You had better show me the sites , " Matthew said , " and I 'll see what I can suggest . " |
| 28 | As I say , I 've only met her the once . |
| 29 | But as he had , I could only give him the answer he needed , without knowing for sure whether it was true or not . |
| 30 | Making a test piece will not only give you the correct tension but will also show up how often you need to cross the cables . |