Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third John Booth provided much of the capital for his partners , Samuel and Aaron Walker , when they established the business that eventually made them the leading ironmasters in the North of England . |
| 2 | The assurance with which Gothic schemes were presented made them the obvious alternative to Second Empire , but large secular Gothic buildings of this type were an unknown quantity . |
| 3 | Then they had their way and asked me the usual series of childish but charmingly eager questions about myself , about London , about England . |
| 4 | It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level . |
| 5 | ‘ I promised you the best assassin in England , Mr Estabrook , and he 's here . |
| 6 | Yeah , yeah they mentioned you the other day at Eddy just said to him you know , |
| 7 | ‘ I promised her the best view of Florence from here , Mama , ’ he said over his shoulder as he wrestled with the catch . |
| 8 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
| 9 | And apparently she phoned her the other night at half past twelve and said can you come and pick me up ? said no . |
| 10 | But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century ! |
| 11 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 12 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
| 13 | Later in the evening , when the sheep and cows were in , and the family was sitting round the fire , Śa kar told them the whole story of what had happened . |
| 14 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 15 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 16 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 17 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |
| 18 | ‘ Mr Lloyd George came … and informed me that he is able to form an administration and told me the proposed names of his colleagues , ’ the King wrote in his diary . |
| 19 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 20 | The owner then swapped me the beautiful picture with which he had boarded his shed window . |
| 21 | When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully . |
| 22 | I gave McDunn the two names last night and told him the respective professions of their owners , then clammed up , just refused to say any more about them or about the body . |
| 23 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 24 | At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life . |
| 25 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 26 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 27 | Former technical direct Dr Nigel Mykura told us the immediate cause of his February 1991 resignation was a transfer of £350,000 from AMS1s bank account to another MacDonald company , which Mykura believed would make it impossible for AMS to continue its research . |
| 28 | Because the market for meals is in competitive equilibrium we saw that the marginal cost curve for films also told us the marginal value of the meals being sacrificed to make the last film . |
| 29 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 30 | At Corbett 's bidding an old man showed them the blood-spattered piece of ground where their priest had been found . |