Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [pron] 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 | On the strength of this scanty victory ( 23,000 votes , i.e. 28 per cent of the total number cast ) this largely unknown candidate was now treated by the media as ‘ the front runner ’ and ‘ the man to beat ’ , allowing him to gather the momentum that finally brought him the Democratic nomination . |
| 3 | That meant he did n't take her anger seriously , thought he could beat her hands down , and that surely gave her the advantage ? |
| 4 | Whitaker , a committed and active Guild member , recognised in Coburn a considerable talent and so offered him the not insubstantial opportunity to shape a BBC drama series from grass roots , by writing its pilot . |
| 5 | And the person who was going to lead them to this golden opportunity was the new driving force who had come to the fore and already earned himself the nickname of ‘ the Eddie Shah of News on Sunday ’ — Chris Walsh . |
| 6 | There was a story that she had once been married to a hollow cheeked Indian tour guide called Willy Wither who had taken us up the river and touchingly offered me the use of his very expensive camera ( ‘ A holiday without a camera is a terrible thing . ’ ) , |
| 7 | When Gibson and I left the office , Guy turned on me and bluntly told me the fate that would overtake me were I to steal one of his crews . |
| 8 | His father , foreman of the Headington Quarry morris ‘ side ’ for fifteen years , played him the morris tunes in the cradle , and later taught him the dances . |
| 9 | Nicklaus took note of Cathy 's instruction , and later gave her the credit when he found himself back to his old form in that week 's skins ' game . |
| 10 | Sir James set John Wordsworth up in the largest house in the High Street of Cockermouth , and later gave him the office of Coroner of Millom . |
| 11 | In line with the Group of Eight 's decision in December 1988 to offer fair treatment to Latin American debtors , Brazil in January 1990 proposed that debtor countries with payments imbalances or shortages of hard currency ( such as Bolivia , Ecuador and Peru ) should convert their debt into local currency to pay for Brazilian imports and to finance cross-border ventures , and also offered them the possibility of buying back debt at a discount . |
| 12 | As Granpa Charlie and I always had an apple for breakfast , the arrangement sorted out our own needs and also gave me the chance to sample what we were selling to the customers . |
| 13 | This lack of the courtier 's innate instinct for self-preservation — a characteristic he shared with his father — did not endear him to the aristocracy , and probably lost him the appointments he needed . |
| 14 | MGM were prepared to make the film as a star vehicle for him and originally offered him the role of Captain Bligh . |
| 15 | Taking a patronizing look at the newcomers , all aged only between seventeen and twenty and dressed in little check practice outfits , they decided that they looked childish and immediately nicknamed them the Tiller Babes . |
| 16 | You rewrote the letter after the original had been burned , had your version photocopied and then sent me the copy . |
| 17 | Annunziata , who had accepted the hug , made Julia get back into bed and then told her the whole story . |
| 18 | Once one way , cleaned it up and then did it the o opposite way . |
| 19 | Tremayne listened a bit and talked a bit and then gave me the receiver again . |
| 20 | He lost his seat in the election of 1955 , and then completed his The Future of Socialism , which I read at Windsor . |
| 21 | He muttered a number of unrepeatable oaths , most of which cast doubt upon my family history , and grudgingly handed me the money . |
| 22 | About to make a flippant reply , she checked herself and instead gave him the exact truth . |
| 23 | She feels that the experience of being a childminder helped her to get the job and certainly gave her the confidence to apply in the first place . |
| 24 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
| 25 | If , for example , the victim knew that the accused was trying to obtain by deception , but nevertheless gave him the item , the accused is not guilty . |
| 26 | They put it on to tape and called it ‘ Cossachok ’ , but later gave it the proper title of ‘ Hopak ’ . |
| 27 | Indeed , it was a precocious interest in Wealden fossils that led to the assembly of a large and valuable collection that was donated in 1884 to the newly opened Natural History Museum in South Kensington , and which gained him not only the title of honorary collector for the museum but also brought him the coveted fellowship of the London Geological Society at the age of twenty-one . |
| 28 | I , I knew , I , I knew that it was because the , that the taxi cabs had insisted , but now told us the reason . |
| 29 | She could just see the raised eyebrows , the exchange of bemused glances , and the shrugs which said , So what ? before they politely but firmly showed her the door . |