Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Er that 's true , as I said I , I lied a little bit , I , I failed to tell you the cost of the fee . |
2 | I got to give you the cello . |
3 | I tried to give her the kiss of life . |
4 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
5 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
6 | He 'd say , " Leave it , it does n't matter , " but if I 'd left it the place would be a pigsty . |
7 | I decided to give him the name of ‘ Man Friday ’ , because I first saw him on a Friday . |
8 | So when Lewis turned up I decided to show him the money straight away . |
9 | , I remember right from when he was a baby as I went to see him the day his mum brought him home . |
10 | I do n't see how she can do the hours , with the hours that she 's doing , I mean she 's still in the Penny Farthing when I came here cos I went to pay her the money . |
11 | Yeah I did tell you the truth |
12 | ‘ I did warn you the soup was hot . ’ |
13 | 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 . |
14 | I had given them the idea that maybe they would become torturers . ’ |
15 | I had to ask him the way to the police station . |
16 | I had to tell him the news myself |
17 | It would be most upsetting if Captain Auden were to hear I had shown you the implant I designed for him . ’ |
18 | He was aware that I had disliked him the day before and seemed anxious to make me change my opinion . |
19 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
20 | ‘ And if I had told you the truth , Neil , that day when Jem Higgins knocked me senseless , what would you have done then ? |
21 | 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 . |
22 | When the studios were built , I wanted to record some of the songs I knew when I was young and I wanted to record them the way I wanted to hear them . |
23 | ‘ I wanted to tell you the morning you left , but you were in such a hurry to be gone and — ’ |
24 | I brought you up here because I wanted to show you the house I 've bought in Oxfordshire . |
25 | In the end she agreed to give him the money for " Jack 's " fare . |
26 | But as she bent to give her the bowl , she lowered her voice , and whispered in Rosa 's ear , ‘ Be careful , you 're not a child any more , you must n't forget that . |
27 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
28 | It would n't have surprised me if you 'd given me the boot there and then . |
29 | ‘ If you 'd told me the truth about that years ago , none of this wretched business would have happened . ’ |
30 | 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 . |