Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] 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 kept kicking it the other day and I thought well it feels ever so light , I thought there was quite a few left . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 10 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 11 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 12 | The longer I waited to tell her the harder it became . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That wonderful love they had shared and which had given her the precious gift of a son . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ You might n't have thought so if you 'd seen them the next day , ’ said Toby . |
| 17 | mm , like every thing else you told me you 'd finished it the other day |
| 18 | Jesus , as the Alpha and Omega , the beginning and the end , Jesus , who came to give us the good news , news worth singing about . |
| 19 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 20 | As we 're roping up , who should arrive to tie on but the lad who 'd joined me the previous day . |
| 21 | 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 ? " |
| 22 | So she had to do it the slow way . |
| 23 | She had learned it the hard way and she never let her guard slip at all . |
| 24 | But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth . |
| 25 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 26 | Early in their walk she had handed him the usual tenpenny piece , and now she heard a faint tinkle and watched while he stuck his candle in the socket , and reached for the matches in their brass holder . |
| 27 | When he returned , bearing a brand new dress in a rich burgundy shade , she had shown him the blue one . |
| 28 | Neither Fedorov nor the man who had evaded them the other night had put in an appearance , and the chance of their doing so now seemed remote . |
| 29 | With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it . |
| 30 | It would be typical of Jacqui 's naivety to believe that she was dealing with an honest man who had given her the only copies in existence . |