Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I just told her the truth , I wanted wanted some of her |
| 2 | Then I began to run into the guards , and every guard I saw , I did n't say anything , I just showed them the piece of paper which had written on it Hotel Intourist in Russian , and the phrase book . |
| 3 | ‘ I already told you the truth . ’ |
| 4 | Actually , I think I probably gave her the clay . ’ |
| 5 | I nearly called him the chairman of the Tory party — I apologise . |
| 6 | It tasted good , and before I quite realised it the glass was empty . |
| 7 | The most important was the right to prevent any single investor from owning more than 15 per cent of the shares , which effectively gave them the right to veto a takeover bid . |
| 8 | Her arguments were ridiculed by Tobias Smollett [ q.v. ] ( a former pupil of Smellie 's ) in an essay in the Critical Review ( 1760 ) , which nevertheless paid her the compliment of insinuating that her husband must have written the book . |
| 9 | When running it had a very distinctive sound which quickly earned it the name of Put-put or Phut-phut . |
| 10 | ‘ And who unkindly told her the truth ? ’ |
| 11 | But it was n't Jozef who finally told me the truth — which of the three suspects had taken the pieces of silver . |
| 12 | it was , ten pound , she just gave me the envelope and , it was a printed |
| 13 | When Topaz gave Lovat his answer she also told him the truth about her interlude with Andrew . |
| 14 | She proudly showed me the size 16 slacks she was wearing — eight weeks earlier she had been wearing size 22 ! |
| 15 | ‘ She would n't have shopped me ; and she never gave me the tape . |
| 16 | Agatha phoned the next day and said : ‘ You never told me the Queen had been . ’ |
| 17 | . So before I talk through some of those , cos I think that some of those er if we just gave you the handout you 've got ta read it training group seems to be far more aware of things like your body language . |
| 18 | It grew to be a sort of gang , and we always called them The Gang when we talked about them privately , Anna and I. I felt so sophisticated and intellectual talking about Rimbaud and Baudelaire at two in the morning , to handsome young men with scholarships to the Sorbonne . |
| 19 | When , at the end of two hours , they finally showed him the document and he acknowledged what had happened , ‘ there was a sigh from the assembled people . ’ |
| 20 | But they always gave me the choice first and put me in a dilemma , though I did n't know the meaning of the word then . |
| 21 | They also renamed it The Enterprise , and it was the first of 27 engines built by the foundry in 25 years . |
| 22 | They also showed me the silver anklets for state elephants ( used until the 1930s ) and silver palanquins , used as recently as the 1950s . |
| 23 | He erm , he left school , he only told them the day before . |
| 24 | He just handed me the photograph of Sam , then took the letters and walked away . |
| 25 | It also taught him the importance of training . |
| 26 | It also gave him the excuse for being able to claim a whole series of ‘ expenditures ’ on his taxation forms , such as furnishings , heating , materials and travel . |
| 27 | It also gave us the belief , probably misguided , that there are two fundamental learning processes : classical and instrumental conditioning . |
| 28 | Although Lord Ridleys aggressive and forthright manner sometimes rubbed people up the wrong way it also gained him the respect of colleagues … |
| 29 | He also showed me the passage in Captain Marryat 's Mr Midshipman Easy where Easy Sir , having invented a machine to alter the bumps on his head , tries to improve his personality ; with fatal results . |
| 30 | He also gave us the name of an excellent brickie who had worked with d-i-yers before and was to give us some good advice , as well as building straight walls . |