Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I said I said so I told her the registration and she gave me the room number but she said . |
| 2 | So I gave myself the day off . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I hit the fish and stright away though it was a good one , but my son Tony has never caught a pike so I handed him the rod , ’ said Lee . |
| 4 | So I allowed him the honour of endorsing my change of name . |
| 5 | And yet there was a part of her which longed to get to the bottom of this complex man , an instinct perhaps which told her the quest would be a worthwhile one . |
| 6 | That might in itself imply that she felt for some reason that she would be suspected , or perhaps she knew who the killer was and preferred to keep quiet . |
| 7 | But these men could do much more to help , not only their partners , but themselves , if only they understood what the menopause is and what can be done to alleviate the problems . |
| 8 | We could really make this place swing if only they gave us the data to work on , could n't we ? ’ |
| 9 | And lastly he showed them the stars and the clouds and the moon and all the winds of heaven . |
| 10 | When Nicklaus did finally track me down he told me the bag was still mine if I wanted it , but I told him I 'd already committed myself , so I gave up the chance . |
| 11 | So he swallowed her small cries , but in the end it was not the safeguard she had sought , because in doing so he fed her the taste of himself once more and left a hunger in her which she sensed would last a long , long time , if not an eternity . |
| 12 | so he offered me the moon to get me |
| 13 | So he bought I the watch . |
| 14 | And I said , ‘ Yes , ’ because right away I knew what the question was telling me . |
| 15 | I could see that he was rather cross with me , and soon he told me the reason . |
| 16 | er er you were going , you were going well with the , the pension you , you wanted him and your diagram was good and he was going for it but directly you showed him the diagram then you started on about this er |
| 17 | And then when he 'd won he offered Heseltine the had of friendship and promptly he gave him the Poll Tax , which will finish him for ever . |
| 18 | A second later she knew what the sound was , for having heard her too , the most beautiful Dobermann suddenly came tearing round the side of the house and charged full pelt at her . |
| 19 | If the pain which he had whenever he had anything the matter with his finger had always been a throbbing pain , and the pain caused by anything the matter with any other part of his body had never been a throbbing pain , then now , on experiencing a throbbing pain , he would naturally associate it with his finger . |
| 20 | The constant streams of traffic flowing past it gave it the appearance of an ocean liner in a sea full of tiny fish . |
| 21 | Now I knew what the doctor at the Centre thought of me , and he was n't far wrong . |
| 22 | Now she knew what the heat meant . |
| 23 | Now it offered her the chance to get away from him for ever … |
| 24 | Whenever he was out he set himself the task ‘ to study how and why until I discovered how I should have played the ball that beat me ’ . |
| 25 | well I sent you the report did n't I ? |
| 26 | Mid-level Immediately I told him the truth about it , ( he relented . ) |
| 27 | Mm well you gave them the size and you checked the size . |
| 28 | Well it seemed it the bairn 's been in . |
| 29 | ‘ ’ Then I remembered what the Lord had said : ‘ John baptised with water , but you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit . ’ |
| 30 | Then I gave him the slip and came to London . ’ |