Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to show you the that |
| 2 | I tried to ring her the other day as going to a seminar at my solicitors office nearby and had hoped to walk up plus dog , leave Bella for duration of seminar and pick her up again = kill exercise bird with seminar stone as it were . |
| 3 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 4 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 5 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 6 | I 'd left you the full address , and the telephone number and a fully detailed map . |
| 7 | I had n't been to the dump for a while , and it was about time I went to see what the good folk of Porteneil had thrown out . |
| 8 | I kept kicking it the other day and I thought well it feels ever so light , I thought there was quite a few left . |
| 9 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 11 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 12 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 13 | I had proved myself the fittest by the mere act of survival . |
| 14 | The longer I waited to tell her the harder it became . |
| 15 | On the album I make the comment that somebody had asked me the same question and I said , ‘ Yep , my left hand 's doing good , right hand 's doing alright , my mind 's as sharp as a tack . |
| 16 | That wonderful love they had shared and which had given her the precious gift of a son . |
| 17 | IAN McCANN cruises the mean streets of Kingston to find out what a crap fist they 're making of the great man 's legacy , and to talk to some of those who helped make him the Third World 's finest musical ambassador . |
| 18 | ‘ You might n't have thought so if you 'd seen them the next day , ’ said Toby . |
| 19 | mm , like every thing else you told me you 'd finished it the other day |
| 20 | Jesus , as the Alpha and Omega , the beginning and the end , Jesus , who came to give us the good news , news worth singing about . |
| 21 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 22 | She was sure that at some point she 'd given someone the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing . |
| 23 | As we 're roping up , who should arrive to tie on but the lad who 'd joined me the previous day . |
| 24 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 25 | ‘ Operations in the national interest ’ was a favourite phrase ; good and sharp , and carrying the implication that if you needed to know what the national interest was , you did not deserve to be told . |
| 26 | For example , a speaker might provide a summary for someone who wished to know what the intended relevance of the lecture was but who was only familiar with the subject at an elementary level . |
| 27 | So she had to do it the slow way . |
| 28 | The second bullet followed almost immediately , this time in front of her , and she had to fling herself the last few feet , landing heavily against the side of the corrugated iron door . |
| 29 | She had learned it the hard way and she never let her guard slip at all . |
| 30 | For months , back home in Melbourne , she had wondered what The Big City on the other side of the world would look like . |