Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was already dutiful and anxious to please him , and she looked so pretty in a dress of sprigged cotton he 'd given her the money to buy for the wedding . |
| 2 | Staring blankly at the rubble , all that remained of the cottage , she tried to remember the exact words Leo had used when he 'd given her the cheque . |
| 3 | But it was after he 'd given her the ring that the cracks had begun to appear in her façade . |
| 4 | He reminded her of the day he 'd given her the locket and ring . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps he thought that , and he 'd given me the slip . |
| 6 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 7 | They were determined to confront the English Heritage inspector , but it soon became clear he 'd given them the slip . |
| 8 | He 'd taught her the tricks of his trade until by her own account she was better at it than he was . |
| 9 | The owner before Uncle Titch had been a retired seaman and he 'd renamed it the Turk 's Head , not after an Ottoman warrior , as most people thought , but after a special type of nautical knot that looked like a turban . |
| 10 | He 'd noticed it the night before . |
| 11 | And he , of course he 'd taken them the day before . |
| 12 | He had n't given them the satisfaction of firing him there and then ; he 'd shown them the contempt he felt for them … let them suffer ! |
| 13 | He had given me the runaround in his sleep . |
| 14 | If he had given me the £5000 , under the rules at the time I would have had to donate 15 per cent to the British Board — totally unfair in my view as I had had to find the sponsorship myself . |
| 15 | She remembered how he had given her the creeps . |
| 16 | He had given her the excuse as usual . |
| 17 | When he had given her the keys and the egg , and had left her , she first put the egg away with great care , and then examined the house , and at last went into the forbidden room . |
| 18 | He had given her the capital for the first one on their twentieth wedding anniversary , when he had already bought a Georgian pendant that he dearly wished her to have , but before he chanced giving it to her he had asked her what she would like , and she told him . |
| 19 | Then , too , she had felt rather shy of him since Christmas when he had given her the violets and had tried not to encourage his obvious interest in her . |
| 20 | He had given us the computer codes to chalk on the outside of the boxes , but you would n't have caught him packing files into the boxes or wrapping them up with pink tape afterwards . |
| 21 | The last time he had seen him the Trollslayer had been wandering off to booze with his fellow outcast Dwarfs . |
| 22 | It had belonged to a man called Flowers , and they had gone to Manchester just because he had offered them the flat . |
| 23 | He had told her the story , and reassured her as far as he was able . |
| 24 | She was sure he had told her the story of the Moon and the Crocodile when she was a child , but she could n't remember it . |
| 25 | If he had told her the truth , she would not have believed him . |
| 26 | She had been necessary , but despised , so naturally he had discarded her the moment she was no longer necessary to him , and their single sexual collision was all it had taken to free him . |
| 27 | Regretfully , the young gentleman told him that he had quoted me the price to the trade , and for a retail sale it would be slightly more expensive , i.e. £36 plus VAT . |
| 28 | But he had shown her the way out of her panic and con fusion : taken her into his world where things were bright , ordered , clear-cut , and easy to control . |