Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faye whispered , her eyes misting and her throat going froggy as she showed them the tiny black-haired bundle cradled tightly in her arms . |
| 2 | She gave him the gentle brush-off : how could this boil-necked boyo know Emlyn Williams ? |
| 3 | If we gave them the five hundred , we wo n't , we are within , having said that , we 're not going to give everybody everything , I do n't think . |
| 4 | And they gave him the rowdiest send-off of the campaign . |
| 5 | He showed me the big green gabled home of Ireland 's Minister of Finance . |
| 6 | He handed her the double bladed paddle as she continued , ‘ I shall go down as far as Browns Mill , so could you possibly pick me up here about five thirty ? ’ |
| 7 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 8 | Ministers had rejected the report but politically it took us the next two general elections to repair the damage . |
| 9 | He could hit it as far as a 3-wood — and it won him the 1973 Open . |