Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I passed to her the wisdom I picked up eavesdropping on our two eldest sisters , whose lives were then lived in romantic turmoil . |
| 2 | I er I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so . |
| 3 | You may remember , Mr. Speaker , that last year I raised with you the problem of coaches parked in and around Parliament square , which makes it impossible for the Sessional Order to be complied with . |
| 4 | You will recall that , over a week ago , I raised with you the fact that an hon. Member had clearly used the free post improperly on behalf of Islington , North Labour party . |
| 5 | Hardly had I uttered the word — or the phrase signifying it — than I felt within me the need to become what I had been accused of being … . |
| 6 | I clutched to me the note I had written to Sylvia Grey . |
| 7 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 8 | I spoke to him the night before last , and he 's doing fine . |
| 9 | So anyway , I said to her the week before last when he went up on the Sunday , I said go up there and say to her |
| 10 | Course , this morning yesterday while he was at home , I said to him the bathroom radiator 's just not quite warm enough Pete can you adjust it ? |
| 11 | If I said to you the communication right these are the methods that this is what actually communication is . |
| 12 | I groped behind me the chair . |
| 13 | I impressed on them the need to bring independence to Namibia and progress in South Africa . |
| 14 | Jones had then worked closely with the docks employer , Lord Aldington , in getting a new wages agreement for the docks including a settlement for the problem of casual labour which drew on him the fire of many militant shop stewards amongst the stevedores . |
| 15 | We conclude that heterogeneous chemistry on background aerosols was responsible for this conversion , which brought with it the potential for additional ozone loss in the autumn . |
| 16 | This led to a deep conflict within himself which carried with it the handicap that he did not really understand the ordinary world , was remote from everyday life , and so lacked balance . |
| 17 | If a cleric engaged in crime , it could be disputed whether a lay or an ecclesiastical court should try him ; if there was a dispute about marriage , which carried with it the inheritance of land and other corollaries , lay and Church courts would both be concerned in it . |
| 18 | The lighting of one hundred beacons , from Jersey to the Shetland Isles , the street parties and special events and the climactic procession by the Queen along a processional route lined by one million people waving Union Jacks under a murky grey sky — all of this implied an attempt to reclaim something permanent and enduring a sense of national pride — which had been systematically eroded by Britain 's loss of standing as a world power , and by some dark and mysterious incoming tide which carried with it the flotsam of unemployment , inflation , rising crime and social decay . |
| 19 | I was a fool but nobody impressed on me the need to save . |
| 20 | He could also make an error of judgement in his choice of sailors , at least one of whom turned on him the moment they were inside the door and threatened to beat him up if he did not hand over money . |
| 21 | Daughter of the Queen Igrayne and half-sister to King Arthur , she revealed to him the intrigue between Lancelot and Guinevere by giving him a magic draught which opened his eyes to the perfidy . |
| 22 | She lavished upon them the sort of affection she would have given to her family had there been any . |
| 23 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
| 24 | Adrift and in debt , Rolfe was taken in by the Duchess of Sforza-Cesarini , who conferred on him the title of Baron Corvo before he returned to England later in the year . |
| 25 | Hippolytus composed a strange book entitled the Refutation arguing the dependence of a row of Gnostic sects upon a row of pagan philosophers , and finally turning his weapons on Callistus , who seemed to him the abomination of desolation sitting where he ought not . |
| 26 | If she even fried an egg , she directed upon it the beam of her concentration , almost praying it would not break . |
| 27 | The two men , one called Willie and the other called Arthur , were standing with their caps on , and as she walked towards them the man called Mike , the big one , said to her , ‘ Sorry I was rough on you , miss . ’ |
| 28 | Desperately trying to think of something to say , she heard behind her the sound of Ross clearing his throat . |
| 29 | Sarah was a beautiful , sensual woman and she aroused in him the kind of emotions he had always condemned as sinful in others . |
| 30 | She stumbled after him the length of the church portico , bumping against him when he came to a sudden stop . |