Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said give us the keys and said I 'll take the bloody car . |
| 2 | I had to give them the keys . |
| 3 | This did indeed occur , for when she went to embrace him the bodies of the lover and the beloved merged forever , becoming a double-sexed being — a youth with the breasts of a woman . |
| 4 | Even if she did tell them the whereabouts of the Grimoire , there was no way they were going to spare her or Julie . |
| 5 | She had told me the tunnels had now been connected up and the workmen used the subway constantly as a private short cut . |
| 6 | We 'd given you the activities to do there so you could find the output of them . |
| 7 | If they had questioned it the chances of the orders being carried out would 've been much less of course . |
| 8 | They had told him the chaprassi would want a bribe , but instructed him not to pay it . |
| 9 | He 'd taught her the tricks of his trade until by her own account she was better at it than he was . |
| 10 | He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed . |
| 11 | She remembered how he had given her the creeps . |
| 12 | When he had given her the keys and the egg , and had left her , she first put the egg away with great care , and then examined the house , and at last went into the forbidden room . |
| 13 | Then , too , she had felt rather shy of him since Christmas when he had given her the violets and had tried not to encourage his obvious interest in her . |