Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] [pers pn] the [noun] " 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 | ‘ We owe a good deal of thanks to Mr Kennedy for all the effort he put into getting us the medals , ’ said Mr Connor . |