Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and my dad had you know the stuff he used to find in it cutlery all the tea towels and plates and everything else . |
| 2 | My brain told me to pull the trigger but my finger would n't respond . |
| 3 | My mother said she thought the two qualities went together and Lili said they did n't : not necessarily , and in many cases they were mutually exclusive . |
| 4 | Soeur Dosithée , perhaps breaking her vow of poverty , kept all the letters that her sister sent her charting the progress of her little niece . |
| 5 | A jovial Indian lady struggling to stay inside her sari helped me find the Electoral Register covering Lee Metford Road and I ran a finger down the names to see if any rang a bell . |
| 6 | ‘ Her husband obliged her to face the fact that there is no suitable successor available to relieve her of the heavy burden she carries , ’ says the insider . |
| 7 | Over to Mary 's quarters he went , while Alice remained locked in her apartment for fear of the plague of adders which her husband assured her infested the grounds . |
| 8 | Normally , the smiddy would not have been opened on a Sunday but the animal was in pain and its owner said he needed the mount urgently . |
| 9 | But since in trusts it is accepted that intention should be regarded , I replied that it was absurd , when the first substitution had not taken effect , that the granddaughter should be denied a claim for a share , since her grandfather wanted her to have the whole if the second brother had also received his brother 's share . |
| 10 | For one thing , the material was patterned , and Clara was going through a stage at which the uncertainty of her taste made her prefer the strictly plain to the figured . |
| 11 | She could suddenly see years back , when her dad took her to smell the tar-bucket . |
| 12 | And with the cast of her family assembled she commemorated the death of her own innocent . |
| 13 | While her mother helped her choose the famous blue engagement suit which she bought from Harrods , she asked her sisters ' friend Anna Harvey , the fashion editor of Vogue magazine , for advice on building up her formal wardrobe . |
| 14 | This had happened to Shona , whose boyfriend encouraged her to have the baby , and then left her , with the result that whenever any subsequent boyfriends have tried to get close , she becomes cold and distant , they can not understand and eventually leave her . |
| 15 | As his dive steepened he felt the speed pick up again ; there was still life in the controls , somewhere . |
| 16 | When he became known as the composer of marches and was about to take up his first bandmaster post , his wife suggested he use the letters on his case , S.O.U.S.A. as a professional name , and he took the names of his sons as his Christian names . |
| 17 | His awkwardness made her remember the last time they had met — that time he had come to her and cried upon her shoulder , four days after Han Ch'in 's death . |
| 18 | On the second occasion the wife of his landlord caught him thumping the side of the machine with his fist . |
| 19 | His father encouraged him to read the historical books of the Bible . |
| 20 | God and his Reason commanded him to subdue the Earth , i.e. improve it for the benefit of Life , and therein lay out something upon it that was his own , his labour . |
| 21 | One writer had the initiative to check with Muslim organisations when his publisher asked him to remove the term ‘ pig-out ’ . |
| 22 | When Ryoei Saito , 74 , president of Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co , set the latest auction record ( $82.5 million for Van Gogh 's Portrait of Dr Gachet ) his representative said he regarded the painting as ‘ quite cheap , very reasonable . ’ |
| 23 | At what moment had she surrendered the tactics she 'd planned to the charismatic persuasion of Luke 's personality ? |
| 24 | At what stage did they split the power and the transport ? |
| 25 | Now to what extent did you know the layout inside ? |
| 26 | To what extent did you have the courage of your own convictions ? |
| 27 | ‘ What time did they find the car ? ’ |
| 28 | What time did you put the chicken on ? |
| 29 | What time did I take the dogs out ? |
| 30 | Our mum said you missed the best night of your life . |