Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | Actually there was a little bit , they showed you the four goals on the television so they might show it on the nine o'clock |
| 3 | Alighting hesitantly , she cast anxious eyes around her , wondering just where her hotel was , as she paid him the exact amount on the meter , feeling strangely guilty as she refrained from adding a tip in accordance with the multi-lingual notice in the cab . |
| 4 | She showed him the tiny pile on the bed , and he nodded again . |
| 5 | From an early age , his mother and father showed him the illustrated books on the subject which they had brought back from London , and described at length the wonders of the ballets they had seen danced there by the Diaghilev company , ‘ when they were young and in love ’ , as John put it later . |
| 6 | He gave me the inside scoop on the Biggest Wave story : the thirty-five-foot mountain he 'd ridden on 5 January 1985 . |
| 7 | After all , days before the invasion surprised President Bush , his ambassador , presumably not speaking just for herself , told Saddam in so many words that Washington gave him the green light on Kuwait . |
| 8 | Just tell him what we want him to give us , you know if he gave us the advance nod on something then we could either you know deal it exclusive or we 'll put it all round , you know , whichever they prefer . |
| 9 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |