Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wished they 'd left him the radio mast , so that he could at least listen to some music and pick up the news . |
| 2 | But once his novelty value had worn off among the blasé Viennese , his audiences declined , while jealousy and court intrigue combined to deny him the court appointments and lucrative commissions he so desperately needed . |
| 3 | All His Own Work could have been the title of Stephen Coonts ' book , instead he chose to call it The Cannibal Queen ( Century Publishing , 344pp , illus , hbk , £16.99 ) . |
| 4 | Scrum-half Campbell converted to give them the half-time lead . |
| 5 | The trophy became known as the Gordon Bennett Cup , although he preferred to call it the Coupe Internationale . |
| 6 | He had given us the computer codes to chalk on the outside of the boxes , but you would n't have caught him packing files into the boxes or wrapping them up with pink tape afterwards . |
| 7 | Of course , Delia Sutherland had personalised it the way women do , in her case with a trace of dog . |
| 8 | He 'd liked the story well enough , admittedly , given a fairly good display to his half-dozen column inches yesterday ; but when Mike had told him the press conference to which Briant had agreed could make a much better story , he had n't seemed to think much of it . |
| 9 | Her desperate , unreasoning terror had left her the moment Penry Vaughan hurtled through the door . |
| 10 | She did n't want Georg back but she wanted to hurt him the way Gesner had hurt her . |