Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A female friend of mine used a particularly effective trick for discouraging men who persisted in giving her the eye on trains or buses .
2 I thought about telling him the arrangement Laura and I had for that night , then decided against it .
3 As she lost the thread entirely , all thought of telling him the work she had done so far went out of her head .
4 I sometimes wish I did n't think so much about what I do , and just pottered along doing it the way it 's always been done ( like the bloke in the next-door room does ! ) .
5 ‘ Early on in the State Department , we took to calling him the rent-a-colonel , in tribute to his ability to simultaneously milk the antagonistic intelligence services of Cuba and the US , ’ said Mr Francis McNeill , a former deputy assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs .
6 He insisted on calling me the Professor of French Letters — introduced me to everyone as that in the pubs .
7 She 'd known him barely two days , and already he 'd steered her through more emotions than she 'd known herself capable of — And , much to her very great surprise , over the next few days he insisted on showing her the countryside .
8 and if you 're for instance dealing with a purchaser who 's interested in buying around about December what was the system that you had about saying what the service charges might be ? ,
9 Mungall responded by making himself the engine which drove Tranmere 's counter attacks and pulled against the weight of Leicester 's pressure .
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