Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Her own family has suffered the anguish of repossession , and her personal story of how her local Liberal Democrat-controlled council helped them made her the winner in the school 's mock election .
2 When they divorced he gave her the house in a clean break settlement and paid twenty pounds a week maintenanace .
3 Anyway , when the ambulance men came we made them a cup of tea , cos they said they a they 'd have been that busy they have n't had a break !
4 Oh I do n't know he under , when you that told he understood it a lot more than when she said it and she sort of went all
5 When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure :
6 On one occasion he suffered an uncontrollable ‘ outburst ’ during his sleep and reckoned it cost him a masterpiece the next morning .
7 ‘ I heard they gave him a blood transfusion up the hospital , ’ said Billy .
8 He helped her to make the house ready for the next occupant , and though she protested he gave her the money for her railway journey back to London .
9 In that last summer before he died I read him the whole of Proust …
10 At least he knew I told him the truth .
11 I thought , I thought I thought , I thought I saw her a minute ago .
12 No , it took she gave me the Times .
13 some of them , some of them he said , I forget what we took we got them a bottle of Coke did n't we ?
14 If the racket came right I felt it gave him the confidence to go for the shots .
15 The next time I went he gave me a drawing he had done .
16 ‘ The first night we met he gave me a bunch of flowers , ’ says Denise .
17 What I liked about it was that though it was biting sarcasm , the way he spoke it gave you the impression not of a man who was bitter in any way , but of a man who pitied the members of the government for being so rotten and pitied us for being governed by such scum .
18 He said you sent him a film and you did n't say where you wanted the pictures sent . ’
19 The dress ( the dress , because as I said she wore it every night ) was full length .
20 said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat
21 He said we owed you a favour , because of all that fuss and bother about the dog that was chasing sheep .
22 He said he told him the story and he said if you could just get back to Greentoft , he says , I would give you the best two cattle out of my byre .
23 and er he said he used it every day he said oh er , now I know the value I shall have to tell my bridge pals
24 The American admitted sleeping with the woman , but denied he gave her the killer disease .
25 She did n't snap his head off when he suggested she gave him a hand with the laying of the tables for the morning .
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