Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 2 | This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’ |
| 3 | So when asked why I had not told her the whole story , I replied , ‘ Because you never asked me . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah , well tell him you 'll put him in his diary , I I would have thought if you 'd just sent him the notes to each meeting he would come if he would , if he could , and if he ca n't , he ca n't . |
| 5 | Except she was saying that you 'd actually offered her the job . ’ |
| 6 | She 'd even given them the evidence herself . |
| 7 | She had n't rejected him the first time , though , just evaded a decision , wanting him to strengthen it somehow . |
| 8 | It was hanging on the wall in the sitting-room but she had n't seen it the night before . |
| 9 | She had not told them the whereabouts of the lavatory . |
| 10 | ‘ Fortunately for you , ’ she agreed swiftly , having momentarily forgotten that she had deliberately given him the impression that she wanted their affair kept secret . |
| 11 | In all her time with him she had never told him the details of what she had seen , that day one summer . |
| 12 | She had stupidly given him the name Marie and he had latched on to it . |
| 13 | You wrote and told me to ring — presumably you were too mean to ring me — but you had n't given me the number . |
| 14 | ‘ If you had only given us the Law : Dayenu ! … |
| 15 | In this one it was n't quite so er , straightforward in that we , we had n't given you the actual activities to do . |
| 16 | It was only when they came out of the rearmost door and found a temporary hut facing them with Radio Room marked on the door , that they realised why they had n't found it the first time . |
| 17 | I left the FO feeling bruised and battered ; they had really given me the works . |
| 18 | The most prominent families had no objection to service — it had long offered them the surest route to power , wealth , and prestige . |
| 19 | He had just given her the chocolates and she had kissed him . |
| 20 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |
| 21 | Perhaps he had simply given her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 22 | He had already sent me the Strachey book , The Theory and Practice of Marxism , and Spender 's , the original title of which was The Approach to Communism , seemed to me to go with it very well . |
| 23 | She had n't taken part in the questioning but the others , Mair knew , would assume that that was because he had already told her the answers . |
| 24 | At least he 'd been king — he had n't blown it the week before the Coronation , like we had . |
| 25 | He had , as Dalgliesh knew , grudgingly respected Kate 's ability to look down at the butchered bodies in St Matthew 's vestry and not be sick , but he had n't liked her the better for it . |
| 26 | He had n't given them the satisfaction of firing him there and then ; he 'd shown them the contempt he felt for them … let them suffer ! |
| 27 | Not that he had n't told her the story of his sainted sister Eileen , and how she died giving birth to her child . |
| 28 | She had never held a baby before that was not a fat , well-dressed , sweet-smelling thing , but not one of them had ever given her the strange sense of fulfilment which the pitiful scrap of humanity in her arms , wrapped in the square which she had earlier scissored from her petticoat , did . |