Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
| 2 | None of them shared the icy restraint of the last letter . |
| 3 | Most people in bands have quite similar backgrounds and I reckon a lot of them shared the same experience as I did . |
| 4 | As Fael-Inis began to play , each of them drew a deep breath and surrendered , and each of them experienced the deepest contentment at hearing the silver pipes of enchantment . |
| 5 | Behind them hulked the great mass of Shunner Fell below the flanks of which the Butter Tubs Pass wormed its way over into Wensleydale . |
| 6 | Apart from his engravings , for which he became particularly well known , he was an excellent portrait painter and his painting of four children — one of whom became the fifth Duke of Devonshire — in the grounds of Chiswick House , probably attracted him to Chiswick , an area considered by many notable persons at that time , as very healthy . |
| 7 | But the flow of immigrants went on , with very little space to receive the new settlers , so in 1628 some of them made the easy move from St. Kitts to Nevis , and a couple of years later made a slightly longer move and occupied the islands of Antigua and Monserrat , laying the foundations of English settlement in the Leeward Islands . |
| 8 | Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team . |
| 9 | She never knew which one of them made the first move , but suddenly , unaccountably , she was in his arms , his hands pressing against her back to draw her closer still . |
| 10 | ‘ My guess is that one of them found the other end of the conduit , maybe the Fax machine at Pegasus or evidence of Cawthorne acting on information he should n't have had . |
| 11 | Starting with William Morris in the 1870s , a group of them found the medieval setting , craft traditions and stunning landsacapes they wanted in which to work . |
| 12 | Attached to many early Christian communities were groups of ascetics , both men and women , some of whom demonstrated the supernatural character of their chastity by the sexes cohabiting , yet without sexual contact . |
| 13 | He worked in another part of the factory , but everyone used the same coffee bar . |
| 14 | ‘ Nothing disturbed the even tenor of our days . |
| 15 | The enormous success of the BBC 's Follow Me demonstrated the huge scale of the demand . |
| 16 | It was not known how many of them caught the connecting flight to Katmandu . |
| 17 | Three weeks ago I became the proud owner of a Chihuahua and he 's changed my life completely . |
| 18 | When we got home , Dad came to the rescue , with the necessary bob ( as a shilling was called ) and so , on the following day , I became the proud owner of my very own tool set . |
| 19 | Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars . |
| 20 | So I became the only bluesman in Kensal Green . |
| 21 | Later , because of my own initiative in originating the idea , I became the first Radio Editor in Canada , which meant writing a daily column about radio programmes , stars , and networks . |
| 22 | As I now personally from one of my previous lives in nineteen eighty-two , when I became the first Director of the newly independent National Federation of Community Organisations . |
| 23 | Now I became the second edition . |
| 24 | I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties . |
| 25 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 26 | I asked the Assistant Commissioner to let me go to Helsinki and he refused . |
| 27 | It was a clear night , but the radar was a mass of echoes and I asked the Belgian contact to give me an estimated course and speed of our quarry , and as a result of this we were able to pick it up . |
| 28 | I asked the new director there , John Hutchinson , whether this concerned him . |
| 29 | I asked the Chief Accountant . |
| 30 | I asked the Second Son . |