Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] " 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 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 3 | Jacqui had only given him the Christian name . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I only asked him the other day |
| 7 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
| 8 | No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A chronological table can only give us the bare outlines of a life : one asks three questions . |
| 11 | The most prominent families had no objection to service — it had long offered them the surest route to power , wealth , and prestige . |
| 12 | But organisation charts only give us the bare bones of the organisation 's structure and we should not be carried away with the idea that official descriptions tell us all . |
| 13 | The wide strip will contain a language pattern which is well known to the pupils , eg give him the large book . |
| 14 | It is not hard to portray the BR of the eighties Monty Python style with such stupidities as creating a semi-autonomous Cornish Railways with great enthusiasm one year only to abandon them the next as though that were equally great progress . |
| 15 | You knew from the beginning the terms of the thing , and if you tried to make it more serious than that , you only lost him the quicker . |
| 16 | I was wearier , I was more tolerant , that was the only difference and that change only enabled me the better to accept what I 'd always been . |
| 17 | But this only tells us the earliest date at which the book could have been written , not the latest date , which is of more interest . |
| 18 | If they want their own snappy one they would , you 're quite right , it 's not necessarily handing them the bad one on a plate just in case they might use it . |
| 19 | ‘ But you only saw me the other night ! |
| 20 | ‘ Well , I think you had better tell me the whole story . |
| 21 | ‘ I think you 'd better tell me the whole story , Charles . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I think I 'd better tell you the whole story right from the beginning . ’ |
| 23 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 24 | Erm before I sent , I only did it the other day , I regret to say any rate . |
| 25 | Terry eagerly gave me the whole picture ; he seemed to know enough about Pyke to write his biography . |
| 26 | Although , ’ he added ruefully , ‘ I much prefer it the usual way . ’ |
| 27 | When speaking to Marco in the prison for instance , he tells him he is bound to be deported , and that there is no hope for him ; Alfieri would realise it was hard for Marco to take , but respected him enough to tell him the absolute truth . |
| 28 | She knocked on his door and asked if he would be kind enough to show her the famous bird . |
| 29 | The canny scribe had just persuaded the RAF to effectively give him the ultimate freebie , one which will remain the envy of flying hacks everywhere for many decades to come . |
| 30 | I 'm supposed to think that you 've just given me the OK . ’ |