Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm delighted they left you the house , ’ Julia told Margaret . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm so glad I told you the truth this morning . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you sure you gave him the message right ? |
| 4 | He 'd allowed her closer than anyone else , and when his clothes were off and he was tired she read him the way she read the weather or the mountains or the dust , she ran her fingers over his pale , scarred body and she guessed close to the truth . |
| 5 | I 'm quite an independent person , but I was quite insecure , I needed someone to say this is good , this is bad , and because he was doing that it gave me the determination I needed . |
| 6 | All the same he left her the majority of his considerable fortune when he died — but with one stipulation : |
| 7 | When I was eighteen she gave me the job of housekeeper in the big cottage she kept at Streatlam to entertain her friends coming to swim in the pool and play tennis . |