Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think I 'd better tell you the whole story right from the beginning . ’ |
| 2 | I said just give me the file on it . |
| 3 | This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’ |
| 4 | ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . ) |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Except she was saying that you 'd actually offered her the job . ’ |
| 7 | If you want our marriage to have any chance of success you 'd better give her the sack first thing on Monday morning ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I think you 'd better tell me the whole story , Charles . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd better leave me the matches , then . ’ |
| 10 | She 'd even given them the evidence herself . |
| 11 | ‘ Fortunately for you , ’ she agreed swiftly , having momentarily forgotten that she had deliberately given him the impression that she wanted their affair kept secret . |
| 12 | In all her time with him she had never told him the details of what she had seen , that day one summer . |
| 13 | She had stupidly given him the name Marie and he had latched on to it . |
| 14 | " You had better show me the sites , " Matthew said , " and I 'll see what I can suggest . " |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I think you had better tell me the whole story . |
| 16 | ‘ If you had only given us the Law : Dayenu ! … |
| 17 | As she stood there holding it the memories came flooding back — and not all of them pleasant . |
| 18 | I left the FO feeling bruised and battered ; they had really given me the works . |
| 19 | He was n't er able to be so positive as that , but he did certainly give us the impression that er that he 'd listened very carefully to what we had to say . |
| 20 | The most prominent families had no objection to service — it had long offered them the surest route to power , wealth , and prestige . |
| 21 | He had just given her the chocolates and she had kissed him . |
| 22 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |
| 23 | Perhaps he had simply given her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |