Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [noun] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I lay in bed that night , watching the flash of the searchlights on the darkened wall , I asked Robin Summers the same question . |
| 2 | ‘ I asked Mrs Gracie the housekeeper what to do , ’ she said , and a sudden grin , like that of an urchin , showed on her face . |
| 3 | His preparations for carrying out work at Arundel Castle , Sussex — a project curtailed by his death — were reported by a correspondent of the antiquary Richard Gough [ q.v. ] in 1787 : ‘ At Greystoke Castle I found Mr. Hiorne the gothic architect , whom the Duke of Norfolk had invited there to consult with relative to his intended repairs at Arundel Castle ; and we made a party to see Alnwick Castle , etc. in Northumberland , for Mr. Hiorne 's information . ’ |
| 4 | In the New England Journal of Medicine article which incensed Dr Mumby the validity of provocation of symptoms by intracutaneous tests to identify food sensitivities was evaluated under double blind conditions . |
| 5 | County were battered and bruised , but they still had a bit of bounce left and came back with a goal from Dean Thomas which sent Nicky Hammond the wrong way , only because it took a deflection . |
| 6 | But Lions manager Geoff Cooke said he was disappointed that two crucial decisions went against his side the disputed second minute try and the penalty which gave Grant Fox the chance to kick his last-minute winner . |
| 7 | The putt which won Vicente Fernandez the Murphy 's English Open has been measured at 87 feet . |
| 8 | The British entries received a mixed reception : enthusiasm ( but not from this correspondent ) for ‘ Naked ’ , a study in ‘ gritty realism ’ which won Mike Leigh the prize for best director ; some revulsion over Peter Greenaway 's ‘ The Baby of Macon ’ , which is for strong stomachs ; and mild pleasure for Kenneth Branagh 's ‘ Much Ado About Nothing ’ . |
| 9 | She passed Mr Bumble the tea-cup , and as he took it , he managed to give her hand a little stroke . |
| 10 | She told Susan Coltman the friendship had started while Paula was living with her parents and Gilfoyle was staying at their new home in Grafton Drive , Upton , as it was being renovated . |
| 11 | She told Susan Coltman the friendship had started while Paula was living with her parents and Gilfoyle was staying at their new home in Grafton Drive , Upton , as it was being renovated . |
| 12 | Then she told Miss Hatherby the news . |
| 13 | She took the lift up to the sixth floor and came to the room one O nine , which was her room , as she entered she noticed cobwebs and dampness on the walls , she flung her bed , bags on the bed and went downstairs to supper , after her supper she went to report , she went to the reception desk to report the cobwebs and dampness , she rang the bell a few times but no one answered , she was just about to go back to her room when she heard Mr Sandy the receptionist in the back room talking to her assistant , I put the body in Miss Hall 's wardrobe , Jane ran upstairs and sure enough there was a body , Jane rang the police then straight away , please could you come to the Riverside Hotel , there 's something I think you should see , there was a knock at the door and Mr Sandy answered it , hello , oh hello we 've just had phone call from here , are you sure this is the right hotel ? |
| 14 | As she reached Starr Hills the sun was a misty red disc over the sea , and there was rain in the air . |
| 15 | ‘ You knew Adam Horne the merchant ? ’ |
| 16 | And he asked : ‘ Now , six months on , how many of those reluctant voters who gave John Major the benefit of the doubt , are regretting their decision ? ’ |
| 17 | Then he 's to get her to admit that she gave Phyllis Henley the key to No. 22 . |
| 18 | We got Gene Hackman the next day practically because just about every actor wants to play opposite Brando . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But when we reached St Christoph the clouds were retreating up the mountainsides . |
| 20 | He told Miss Smart the girls she drilled so magnificently ought to be included in the Royal Tournament at Earl 's Court , he , for one , being heartily sick of sailors dismantling and reassembling guns . |
| 21 | He showed Mr Utterson the broken stick and told him the servant girl 's story . |
| 22 | He handed Ray Doyle the crumpled note , which Doyle accepted and read , before passing it to Bodie . |
| 23 | It was in Mr Dunn 's interests to return the summons with his answers , because if he did not he would never know of judgement made against him in court declaring he owed Mr Rich the sum he claimed . |
| 24 | Richard Hunt , former Keeper of Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library and a considerable Medieval Latinist himself , once told me that he thought Sister Penelope the best translator from Latin in her generation . |
| 25 | In the Criterion generally , after 1927 when he sent Frederic Manning the latest works of Frazer , Eliot kept anthropology away from creative writers , with the exception of Charles Madge , who was a trained sociologist . |
| 26 | He sent Mr Leventis the weigh bill and the Cypriot embassy in Bonn picked them up and sent them to Cyprus . |
| 27 | So when he bought Sarah Byrne the songbird he did n't deliver her straight to the door of the Bradford house of employment just in case anyone should recognize him and pass comment on the fact that he had taken one of the servants out driving . |
| 28 | Jeanie wondered if anyone liked Miss Hazelwood the way she did , had the same warm feeling when she came near . |
| 29 | He gave Peter Thomson the right clubs at Birkdale ! ’ |
| 30 | He gave Tottenham Hotspur the title , I think , of the greatest club side ever in erm , British football , and they won erm , the double as everyone knows , in nineteen sixty one , the first English team to have won it this century . |