Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd offered to lend him the money to have the bike fixed , and when he accepted she said , ‘ I 've broken something precious , have n't I ? ’ and knelt in the street among the bits of glass , looking up at him as if she understood it was more than a lamp she had smashed . |
| 2 | If she 'd hoped to unnerve her the way she did Letty then she was wrong . |
| 3 | And with Forest still at the bottom of the Premier League , Clough insisted : ‘ If I 'd waited to offer him the contract after Saturday he may have blown it . |
| 4 | Ever since the pharmaceutical company for which he worked had given him the vehicle given , thought Henry grimly ) number 47 had been watching over it in a manner that suggested an emotion deeper than motherhood , more desperate than romantic love . |
| 5 | It was the Emperor Constantine who had given Pope Sylvester the whole kingdom of the West and had attempted to give him the crown . |
| 6 | She seemed totally unaware of the difficulties Peony had overcome to bring her the medicine so soon . |
| 7 | My superior self had taken over-call it the result of time-shock , if you will , but I felt myself in the presence of myth and , by association , accepted myself as mythical ! |
| 8 | She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting . |
| 9 | She was delighted that Finn had returned to give her the opportunity of rejecting him . |