Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This what I asked you the other week .
2 When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it .
3 I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men .
4 And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room .
5 I told her the old lady was rich and that she had done the cottage up beautifully .
6 The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so .
7 Later , when Frankie and Liza , my brother and sister , came in from playing I told them the sad news , but they did n't seem very upset .
8 And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in .
9 But I , you know , I told you the front brakes they er snapped the middle and all this .
10 I noticed it the other day when you were round then
11 I showed him the relevant page of my guide-book .
12 Yesterday I fed him the bony scraps from my reindeer stew and he is now mine for ever .
13 I loaned him the other $30 .
14 I warned you the other night , me and you gon na fall out if you keep being cheeky .
15 Erm I recorded it the other day and I did n't even know .
16 I called you the Bony Lady .
17 He paused a moment and then added , " You know , Sara , I meant it the other evening when I said you could ride whenever you want .
18 ‘ Yeah , I know where Flaxperson is , I saw her the other day .
19 I saw her the other day .
20 I saw him the other day and he said ah yo , have you , not leaking yet is it from that radiator ?
21 er goggle eyes at the Co-op , I saw him the other week
22 Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally .
23 When I saw it the other night , tucked inside the cello part of one of the piano trios we play , she had got as far as ‘ State 7 — Moderate Gale : Intervals of laughter .
24 And when I saw it the other day , on my way from London 's West End , I could n't believe it .
25 ‘ Tom and I saw it the other day , ’ she was saying .
26 And it was it was so nicely written I I saw it the other day it was no difference .
27 I saw you the other evening , ’ he said .
28 Looking back later , Helen recalled three things about this new life , so different from the unhappy days when she and Edward discovered that his passionate letters to her were being read by Mrs Andrews : ‘ The beauty of it delighted me , and I thought it the perfect setting for these people with their freedom of manner and thought … .
29 I gave her the bare outline of your problem , Leonora — it was necessary to explain why I wanted an X-ray in a hurry .
30 I gave him the standard treatment and told him to come back immediately if he did n't get better . ’
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