Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later I asked Mala the original of that unlikely nickname , but she merely told me , with a faint blush , that is was none of my business . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's exactly why I read Katarina the riot act when you left . |
| 3 | I met Edith the day before she was going . |
| 4 | I met Michael the day I moved into Betty 's . |
| 5 | When I sold CBS the video I kept apologising for the movement because it was so shaky . |
| 6 | Dennis the Menace , I want Dennis the Menace on mum |
| 7 | I give him the blackcurrant jam , I give Myrene the blackcurrant jam , jam to take home for him . |
| 8 | I showed Kubrick the script of Spartacus . |
| 9 | I showed Richard the letter and he handed it back without comment . |
| 10 | ‘ I taught Jimmy the sensation of where to expect the serve of an opponent , plus where to plan to return that shot . |
| 11 | I notice the poster on the wall promising a prize for the best school uniform on display , and I question Mick the proprietor as to who won . |
| 12 | ‘ News spreads fast , I suppose Dai the Cop is gossiping like an old woman again . ’ |
| 13 | Kohler said : ‘ I offered David the chance to come in with me in a partnership but unfortunately he could n't come up with the necessary amount . ’ |
| 14 | I offered Benn the chance to fight me in September and he turned me down in favour of fighting Mauro Galvano in Italy . |
| 15 | Oh , yes , I knew Marlowe the playwright and helped him stage his play Edward II . |
| 16 | I looked for the first time straight into his moonlit eyes , and I saw Perkin the son , the husband , the one who worked with wood . |
| 17 | I remember one Sunday afternoon when I saw Zebbie the Coalpicker pushing a bicycle up the hill with a sack of coals on the cross-bar . |
| 18 | Shortly after I reached England the Governor paid his first post-liberation visit to Rangoon and on 20th June began his conference with Burmese leaders . |
| 19 | well I have because we have erm , we 've got that Durham and Wearside telephone directory , so I gave Catherine the number and she said she 's got to ring her tonight about something I think what Catherine must of done was , well she must of send orders to her by post |
| 20 | She said , " I gave Bert the money he gave you for your fine . " |
| 21 | Then I gave John the task of making his own 3 x 3 x 3 cube using multilink cubes . |
| 22 | I gave Rex the kind of nod you could tell your grandchildren about . |
| 23 | And I suppose it 's up to us like the erm the old stagers to we should know better and I think Tom the Union chap , he 's he can see that and he wants to avoid it cos he 's got to speak to the lot of them ? |
| 24 | There was an implied rebuke and Schellenberg said , ‘ I left Berlin the moment I received your message , Reichsführer . |
| 25 | Item eight , may I ask Richard the Chairman of the Develop Divisional Committee to introduce and put the resolution to the A G M ? |
| 26 | Now suffering is a vast and many-sided fact of Crime and Punishment , as of all mature Dostoevsky — larger than the ‘ loose end ’ idea of The Drunks which produced Marmeladov the marmeladey wallower in abasement and humiliation , the man who seeks suffering and finds it ( and so finds satisfaction too ) at the bottom of his vodka jug , who screams ‘ I 'm loving this ! ’ when his wife pulls him across the room by his hair ; and larger than the ‘ out of the practical swim ’ idea of ‘ A Confession ’ from which emerges the murderer , the man with something to confess , who does n't seek suffering but learns , though only in the Epilogue , to accept it . |
| 27 | Milk quotas which deny Britain the opportunity to be self-sufficient in milk and dairy products are also a hindrance , as are FEOGA grants which accelerate the progress towards overcapacity . |
| 28 | From England they go across to Brittany , where they are seen in sea cliffs and along into Normandy where they form , for example , the great escarpment at Falaise on which stands William the Conqueror 's castle . |
| 29 | The single remaining piece of evidence which linked Kirov the tailor to Kirov the dissident activist was in his pocket , sealed within a plain brown , un-addressed envelope . |
| 30 | Second , they 're no longer played by ugly gits like Charles Bronson , but by pretty ethnics such as Lou Diamond Phillips who can plausibly claim to have Cherokee blood somewhere in their veins ( it was this which landed Phillips the lead in The Dark Wind , the recent Robert Redfordbacked adaptation of one of Tony Hillerman 's Navajo detective novels ) . |