Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 2 | But I , you know , I told you the front brakes they er snapped the middle and all this . |
| 3 | Yesterday I fed him the bony scraps from my reindeer stew and he is now mine for ever . |
| 4 | I gave her the best books |
| 5 | It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour . |
| 6 | At the German border we were helped by a German trucker who got us the required stamps . |
| 7 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
| 8 | In response to the unasked question she handed them the last cans . |
| 9 | She handed him the two parts of the torch and waited for him to piece the thing together . |
| 10 | She showed him the long notes and the short notes . |
| 11 | They listened to people who knew nothing about the game , to people who exploited them , people who taught them the wrong things . |
| 12 | At seventeen he joined a travelling band of gypsies who taught him the finer skills of pickpocketing until an accident to his hand six years later put paid to what would have been a very lucrative career . |
| 13 | Perhaps Richard had the best of it : at Queen Eleanor 's court he encountered troubadours and intellectuals who taught him the social graces . |
| 14 | She gave him the two packets , each holding five cigarettes , received his fourpence , smiled at him and said , ‘ Thank you very much . ’ |
| 15 | We called them The Big Ones . |
| 16 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 17 | Actually there was a little bit , they showed you the four goals on the television so they might show it on the nine o'clock |
| 18 | They called it the old comedians |
| 19 | Not only was Pumblechook 's elbow in my eye , but I was n't allowed to speak , and they gave me the worst pieces of meat . |
| 20 | Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones . |
| 21 | He showed her the little holes in the chin guard , and reluctantly she tried it again . |
| 22 | He handed her the folded documents as he prised open the first box . |
| 23 | In particular it showed me the many opportunities we have , and that we are a talented organisation . |
| 24 | He had no doubt it was one of the verderers ' horses and that it was dying ; indeed , even as he watched it the spasmodic movements seemed weaker and less purposeful . |
| 25 | It was then he gave me the old papers I have read to you . |
| 26 | He gave us the following answers : |
| 27 | Another greatly pleasurable result of the broadcast was that it put me in touch with colleagues of his , and their wives , in the lighthouse business , several of whom wrote me the kindest letters expressing the most heart-warming comments . |
| 28 | That 's what got me the two years inside , pal . |