Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John asked me to help him the following year as I often came to Stamford to see my mother . |
| 2 | In the end I got them to give me the first aid outfit and fixed myself up . |
| 3 | Having reached his destination , he remembered the message that he had been asked to give to his hostess : ‘ I travelled down with an uncle of yours and he told me to give you the following message , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |
| 5 | I guessed where she had been , but I made her tell me the whole story . |
| 6 | did I bring you the second of that stupid one down ? |
| 7 | When Caro made her escape after tea it was with all the usual feelings of guilt and frustration ; with her mother suggesting brightly , ‘ Just let me measure you for that new jumper before you go , Carolyn , ’ and , ‘ Did I show you the new suite we were thinking of getting , in the catalogue ? |
| 8 | All right erm did you give me the sixty minute or ninety minute do you know ? |
| 9 | He rose , paced about the little room , stared at the oak bureau , remembered it in his old room , in the nursery ; it had come here with Matey — he remembered her showing him the secret drawer it held , quite capacious , and unthinkingly worked the mechanism which opened it — |
| 10 | When , inevitably , we were asked to do it again , we altered it to make it the third article after the four-legged item and kept varying first and third . |
| 11 | Never , by look or gesture or word , had he given her the slightest justification for thinking that he might be interested in her as a person . |
| 12 | He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn . |