Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he went out , he made me promise to give you this . ’ |
| 2 | My father was a Gemini , and I knew your mother was a Sagittarian as soon as I found he 'd given her half the clip . |
| 3 | He 'd he 'd done it all , he was happy enough then . |
| 4 | Walter Smith told his players before they left the dressing room at Celtic Park that he appreciated they had given him all they could since the start of that run in August . |
| 5 | I thought I had sent him some that were very good , but I received a most snarky letter from him saying " They may be very fine artists but they do n't know anything about teaching , and I 'm not interested in any of your geniuses unless they really take trouble about the job in hand " . |
| 6 | When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later ! |
| 7 | It 's just from the way it came out , I thought you meant you decided to jack it all in and hit the road . |
| 8 | Feeling unutterably guilty , she saw he 'd brought her another drink and a fresh hot-water bottle . |
| 9 | I thought he meant to take you both with him . ’ |
| 10 | SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon said he thought he had seen it all but the hospital bombing had broken ‘ every precept of human compassion and morality ’ . |
| 11 | I waited , but he had stopped as if he thought he had said it all . |
| 12 | he thought he 's drunk it all , but yeah ! |
| 13 | But did you tell tell him that , it does n't get that hot in the conservatory ? |
| 14 | Did you intend to drown me this time ? ’ |
| 15 | Why did you have to leave me all alone down here ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Did he come to see you both ? ’ |
| 17 | When he left I phoned to wish him all the best and he said , ‘ keep on picking people 's brains ’ . ’ |
| 18 | You said I had to eat it all ! |
| 19 | I went to see the Postmistress and she said I 've known you all my life , so start work on Monday morning because , you see , it was so quick and I had n't got my references back from the Railway Company but that 's what she said er I can start work on Monday morning . |
| 20 | So I wished I 'd done it all in the first place , now I 've got to do it . |
| 21 | No , there ca n't be anything there because Terri said she 'd brought it all upstairs as soon as the brewery bought it in . |
| 22 | Had he meant to give them that special significance ? |
| 23 | Some years ago it was handed to the chaplain of the Chelsea Pensioners at a funeral , but the clergyman said he had read it many years before . |
| 24 | Ah well he says , and he said he 's given me this list . |