Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I abruptly asked them the same question I had of Benjamin . |
| 2 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
| 3 | My ever difficult told me the other night I needed to change my attitudes and lifestyle and to realise I would not get another job at my age . |
| 4 | To start with I went along to visit local parent , Mrs Audrey Durrant , who told me the main problem she faces as the mother of a ten year old dyslexic boy . |
| 5 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 6 | Well I think there in , well they ca n't go together , told you the last time you was here , they ca n't go on holiday together . |
| 7 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 8 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 9 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 10 | Ken Gillance , defending , said Lamont was not connected with vice but Welsh told him the previous day she had almost been run down by one of Roth 's friends . |
| 11 | Rachel told her the only thing she could : that her sister had a mild indisposition , and I was her understudy . |
| 12 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 13 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 14 | ‘ That lady tamed him the first time he set eyes on her . |
| 15 | When Walter Ash rang her the next day she would not speak to him . |
| 16 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 17 | God knows why — I made him the same way I made the rest of you — but there it is . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’ |
| 19 | And it was it was so nicely written I I saw it the other day it was no difference . |
| 20 | Burton always thought it the finest thing he ever did . |
| 21 | Looking at it , Jess thought it the grandest place she 'd ever seen . |
| 22 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 23 | At 19 miles I was greeted by some close friends from college and again this gave me the extra energy I needed . |
| 24 | The thought of the delicious lunch gave me the extra boost I needed to reach the summit . |
| 25 | Maybe that does n't sound like anything , but I 'll tell you it gave me the strangest feeling I ever had . |
| 26 | There was a slight delay as she read it and then her head slowly turned in my direction and she gave me the biggest grin I 'd ever seen . |
| 27 | He gave her the gleaming smile she detested . |
| 28 | It was such a desultory question that Ruth gave him the filthiest look she could muster . |
| 29 | Gina gave him the unstinted praise he deserved . |
| 30 | I gave him the same answer I gave you . ’ |