Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David offered to show me the place and … ’ |
| 2 | Just before he left , Creed had given him the date . |
| 3 | Eleanor had given him the opportunity he had needed . |
| 4 | By turning record-packers into talent scouts , magazine salesmen into managers , Branson had paid them the compliment of saying ‘ I trust you ’ . |
| 5 | Mrs Wright had given him the key to lock the door but he had n't locked it . |
| 6 | Of course , Delia Sutherland had personalised it the way women do , in her case with a trace of dog . |
| 7 | Chico offered Rex the kind of comforting smile Rex had offered him the night before . |
| 8 | Her time with Giles had cost her the equivalent of a layer of skin . |
| 9 | He ate in the canteen , spoke with some of the robots , wandered into the sitting room where Roirbak had left him the stack of films , rejected every one as boring , and decided to do a little exploring . |
| 10 | With that instinct for survival that had kept the Member for Arden in Parliament for so long , Grunte had sold him the car at a nil rate of interest . |
| 11 | The other English Duke in Brussels , Wellington , would have been grateful had he known that Richmond had spared him the Duchess 's worries , for the Commander-in-Chief of the British and Dutch armies already had more than enough worries of his own . |
| 12 | Capron had lent me the gun , and suggested the ploy of telling Graham that I had found new evidence that would clear his name of the allegations that he was a Soviet agent . |
| 13 | After Mr Brocklehurst had given me the book and left , I felt I had to speak . |
| 14 | Stephen had given her the task of co-ordinating the interiors for the hotel , following the design schemes he had commissioned from a well-known Paris-based designer . |
| 15 | Bath had felt it the week before but they had the experience and strength to overcome it . |
| 16 | Dod had got me the job and we were using his van , so everything was okay by me . |
| 17 | I told him that Jo had given me the cash , though I was suitably vague as to exactly how I recovered her lost property . |
| 18 | Nothing happened at first , but Peccable had warned him the Bowls usually took some time to start from cold . |
| 19 | The moment Madame Mattli had offered her the job she had made up her mind . |
| 20 | ‘ Wild ’ , Omi had called him the night he arrived , a wild boy , and now another dimension had been added to that figure from long ago : cruelty — a cruel boy … . |
| 21 | Scott would bet that he had never worn the snakeskin overcoat Annabel had given him the Christmas before . |
| 22 | A brilliant officer with more than twenty commendations , he had grown to believe he was omnipotent ; and when Mathews refused to tell him the names of his accomplices , saying it was more than his life was worth , Drury , obsessed with clearing up another case , offered him a deal : make a statement that three men whose names I will give you were your accomplices , testify against them in the witness-box , and in return no charges will be brought against you , and we 'll come to an arrangement about the reward money offered by the Post Office . |
| 23 | ‘ But Dr Dennes and Dr Van Lare refused to give her the treatment she was entitled to . ’ |
| 24 | When wicked women called Charlottes came to tempt them the hermits cast off all their clothes and rolled naked in the patch of nettles behind the pigsty . |
| 25 | Scrum-half Campbell converted to give them the half-time lead . |
| 26 | The Goodison Park striker claimed manager Howard Kendall had made him the scapegoat for all the problems besetting the Mersey giants and blamed the absence of a midfield creator for the lack of goals . |
| 27 | If Schopenhauer had given him the notion of a personal vision of life , Wagner gave him first-hand knowledge of a creative talent and the ambition to emulate its cultural achievements . |
| 28 | So I rang you and then Lyn said yeah I 'll get her to call you and then you rang me back so it was as though Lyn had give you the message to call me |
| 29 | It took a long talk from one of the Sisters of Charity to make him realise that God had given him the gift of his voice and he was to use his gift with religion to help these people . |
| 30 | It was Esther , with the news that their friend Liz had rung her the night before to tell her that she and Charles were getting divorced , and that Charles intended to marry Henrietta Latchett . |