Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
| 2 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
| 3 | He 'd say , " Leave it , it does n't matter , " but if I 'd left it the place would be a pigsty . |
| 4 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 5 | I had given them the idea that maybe they would become torturers . ’ |
| 6 | It would be most upsetting if Captain Auden were to hear I had shown you the implant I designed for him . ’ |
| 7 | He was aware that I had disliked him the day before and seemed anxious to make me change my opinion . |
| 8 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 9 | ‘ And if I had told you the truth , Neil , that day when Jem Higgins knocked me senseless , what would you have done then ? |
| 10 | All I needed was a little bit of luck and as I pressed , dry mouthed , along the empty street it seemed I had found it The shock when I saw the two burly SPs strolling towards me was like a blow but was immediately followed by a strange calm . |
| 11 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
| 12 | I think she must have seen a lot of things at that time which had made her the way she was , seen things in the blackout and in the underground stations . |
| 13 | Mrs Grandison , the mother of Sophia and Penelope , had the remains of her daughters ' Pre-Raphaelite beauty , now much faded and overlaid with some other quality , which had made her the President of the Women 's Institute in the village where she lived but which did not seem to be quite Pre-Raphaelite . |
| 14 | Their initiative was thought to have been in response to an open letter published on Jan. 15 under the signatures of three former Presidents , the Archbishop of Bogotá , and the leader of the left-wing Patriotic Union Party ( UP ) , which had offered them the prospect of " society 's support … for less rigorous treatment " by the government if they released the estimated dozens of hostages they had seized over the previous two months and stopped drug trafficking . |
| 15 | Jean 's precocious bubble of confidence , which had earned her the attention of her parents , was replaced by a sense of guilt about what had happened which lasted into later life . |
| 16 | It was dedication of that order which had won her the reputation of one of the finest young actresses around . |
| 17 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 18 | It would n't have surprised me if you 'd given me the boot there and then . |
| 19 | ‘ If you 'd told me the truth about that years ago , none of this wretched business would have happened . ’ |
| 20 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 21 | Somewhere and somehow she 'd given them the slip , shinned down the mat of Virginia creeper in the darkness and scuttled across the lawn to hide . |
| 22 | She had been right when she 'd called him the devil , because he was — but oh , how she wished she did n't find him so incredibly attractive . |
| 23 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |
| 24 | ‘ Little things , ’ he 'd said when , just before he fell asleep , she 'd asked him the question once more . |
| 25 | Then she 'd shown him the book : a very rare volume indeed . |
| 26 | The day she 'd shown him the photograph … |
| 27 | She 'd told him the nurse was coming to see her lawyers and make a statement at the end of that week . |
| 28 | Travis could n't have looked more sceptical if she 'd told him the world was flat after all . |
| 29 | If she had planned it the blow could not have been more accurate . |
| 30 | She left Philip to his labours , thinking that this time she had given him the money for the materials but none for his labour . |