Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day in 1916 my driver took me to the town of Loos in Belgium . |
| 2 | My mum was only a little cross with me. then — mystery and more mystery — my mum took me with the fireman in his car to his house . |
| 3 | One day my mum sat me on the bed and started talking to me . |
| 4 | Not today , however , and now my route took me off the road by a stile and up over the hill by an old quarry track . |
| 5 | ‘ I was very undecided when my agent told me about the offer … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ My agent told you about the remuneration ? ’ |
| 7 | I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open . |
| 8 | My senses took me through the bars that confined me . |
| 9 | I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris . |
| 10 | My parents accused me of the murder of my brother . |
| 11 | I was very glad that my acquaintances escorted me to the Metro , with instructions to change at Dentfert-Rochereau for the Cité Universitaire , where I had managed to book a room in the Pavillon Franco-Britannique . |
| 12 | I think my husband told you on the phone that buying the house over here was my idea . |
| 13 | My husband kicked it in the chest and it flew off but returned shgortly after and attacked the smallest of the dogs pinning it against a stile |
| 14 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 15 | I found counting breaths in my head helped me through the pain — the intensity of which is a memory . |
| 16 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 17 | My wife my wife heard him on the radio on Saturday morning she said who 's this why does he keep saying motor car , motor car |
| 18 | On making a very despondent journey home my wife greeted me at the door with the astounding statement that the property had been found and handed into a branch of a building society and the member of the staff had telephoned to inform my wife that it was there to collect . |
| 19 | ‘ My captain phoned you about the two people from OM-45 . |
| 20 | I had just got to the part when I told them ‘ You will have to take the oath of allegiance to … ’ when one of my staff tapped me on the shoulder and said ‘ Ma'am , the King is dead . ’ |
| 21 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
| 22 | My father met me in the kitchen . |
| 23 | George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’ |
| 24 | My father told me about the Hound of the Baskervilles . |
| 25 | We always had plenty of vegetables , for my father grew them in the garden , and during the Second World War , had an allotment too . |
| 26 | ‘ But John Reed knocked me down and my aunt locked me in the red room , ’ I cried . |
| 27 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 28 | I understood exam stress thanks to you — my daughter took me to the exams to help keep me calm . |
| 29 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 30 | My predecessor supported me in the Lobby last week , as did the vast majority of the House . |