Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " David Fairfax came to see you the other day , " Matthew went on . |
| 2 | When Lyddy had gone , Alexandra went to one of her huge wardrobes and from beneath a pile of linen drew out the little morocco volume Aunt Emily had given her the evening of her arrival . |
| 3 | After Mr Brocklehurst had given me the book and left , I felt I had to speak . |
| 4 | The moment Madame Mattli had offered her the job she had made up her mind . |
| 5 | Baptiste Taillé had given her the signal . |
| 6 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 7 | Uncle Walter had given him the photograph . |
| 8 | ‘ But Dr Dennes and Dr Van Lare refused to give her the treatment she was entitled to . ’ |
| 9 | Mrs Wright had given him the key to lock the door but he had n't locked it . |
| 10 | Mrs Bradford had given her the complete day off for her father 's funeral and she did n't have to be back at the house in Newcastle Place until six o'clock . |
| 11 | Of course , Delia Sutherland had personalised it the way women do , in her case with a trace of dog . |
| 12 | He remembered when Barbara Molland had given him the box . |
| 13 | But New York had cost him the Democratic Party 's nomination . |
| 14 | 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 . |