Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] [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 | My mum washed mine at the weekend and they 're in a pile on my floor and I have n't been arsed so I 'm just sleeping on the mattress with the bare duvet . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's the tail rotors that do the damage — and I 'd hate to spend my afternoon scraping you off the roof . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I was very undecided when my agent told me about the offer … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ My agent told you about the remuneration ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It — hmm — never was my intention to take you on the couch in my drawing-room , ’ he commented gruffly , purposely putting some daylight between them . |
| 10 | I spoke to him like a mother but he was determined to put an end to her life , so on 11 January 1987 , when Paulette was leaving the home of her friends on the way to her own home , [ the defendant ] stopped her and shot her and then placed a call to my home to inform me of the murder . |
| 11 | ‘ At Marriage Guidance , ’ went on Henry , ‘ I did n't feel able to discuss my need to tie you to the bed and whip you with my pyjama cord . |
| 12 | Had my Pop passed me in the street , he would n't have recognised me . |
| 13 | My lead takes me to the Butcher Building . |
| 14 | I think my husband told you on the phone that buying the house over here was my idea . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 'Cos he took them boots and it was my job to take them to the big house for the gentleman . ’ |
| 18 | It was my job to bury her in the church . |
| 19 | I found counting breaths in my head helped me through the pain — the intensity of which is a memory . |
| 20 | and he said he 'd , he 'd let me know before Christmas if he can get me back on a Wednesday , but I 'm still taken on a Wednesday but my friend takes me in the car on a Wednesday but er I like to go in the ambulance you see really so er |
| 21 | ‘ Of course nothing can be formally arranged just at this present , ’ went on Miss Merchiston , and Theda almost laughed out to see the burgeoning hope in the poor man 's face , ‘ for with dear Mama in this sad condition , I could not reconcile it with my conscience to leave her in the care of other hands . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Oh did n't my wife tell you about the loft ? |
| 26 | ‘ My captain phoned you about the two people from OM-45 . |
| 27 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
| 28 | My father met me in the kitchen . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | My father told me about the Hound of the Baskervilles . |