Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first heard the first noise I thought what the bloody hell 's that and I turned the sound down . |
| 2 | At the German border we were helped by a German trucker who got us the required stamps . |
| 3 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 4 | In 1861 Crookes made the discovery which brought him the necessary eminence ; he identified the new element thallium . |
| 5 | In response to the unasked question she handed them the last cans . |
| 6 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 7 | Jonathan always thinks that what he says is so fantastic that he 's got to say it twice in case you missed it the first time round . |
| 8 | The project scientist who sent me the disappointed and sceptical account of all this said that there were shrieks from the store room , but not of success . |
| 9 | Hailed as the troubled comic genius who gave us the manic hotel-keeper Basil Fawlty and the Ministry of Silly Walks , he 's also the kingpin of the enduring Pythons and a multi-millionaire businessman . |
| 10 | The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) . |
| 11 | I was surprised how well behaved the cat was on the bank for it hardly moved , out with the camera , click and back she went none the worse for her mistake . |
| 12 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 13 | Boston ( 1086–1113 ) too is a planted town , its plan related to the curving banks of the River Witham along which came the trade which made it the second most prosperous town after London by 1206 . |
| 14 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 15 | The next morning we woke none the worse for our terrible experience . |
| 16 | The American government has just brought out two new reports providing fresh evidence about the life and death of the man who called himself the sinful Messiah . |
| 17 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 18 | Phrasal verbs come in for more attention with Phrasal Verbs Organiser from LTP ( by the man who gave us the First Certificate Organiser ) , while HarperCollins is publishing a Phrasal Verbs Workbook to accompany its dictionary . |
| 19 | The revolt against the Mr Bush 's presidency a ran all to Mr Clinton 's benefit and not much to that of Mr Perot , the acid-tongued Texas billionaire who styled himself the unorthodox candidate of protest . |
| 20 | It sounds to me with me being they got him the first the the their victims . |
| 21 | ‘ The map I gave you the last time . ’ |
| 22 | Although she was anxious to be able to travel on the underground and in aeroplanes , she felt that the problem which caused her the most inconvenience was her inability to go into any large shop or department store without experiencing extreme panic . |
| 23 | I I th I thought I thought it was I S actually from the way you said it the first time , but that was just a guess . |
| 24 | After all , the chairman of a transport conglomerate which had tipped hundreds of thousands into party funds would not thank a prime minister who gave him the same reward as a Blackpool entertainer . |
| 25 | The officer who handed us the unofficial communique was risking his neck by taking a public stance against racism amongst his colleagues . |
| 26 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 27 | Leith shook hands with him , but cared not at all for the way he ogled her the whole time . |
| 28 | Thus the fourth-seeded Soutter gained revenge over the player who denied her the last place in England 's world-title winning team this year , with a hint that her rehabilitation might now be complete . |
| 29 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |