Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 2 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
| 3 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 4 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
| 5 | I 'd left you the full address , and the telephone number and a fully detailed map . |
| 6 | He 'd say , " Leave it , it does n't matter , " but if I 'd left it the place would be a pigsty . |
| 7 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 8 | I had given them the idea that maybe they would become torturers . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 10 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 11 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 12 | It would be most upsetting if Captain Auden were to hear I had shown you the implant I designed for him . ’ |
| 13 | He was aware that I had disliked him the day before and seemed anxious to make me change my opinion . |
| 14 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 15 | ‘ And if I had told you the truth , Neil , that day when Jem Higgins knocked me senseless , what would you have done then ? |
| 16 | All I needed was a little bit of luck and as I pressed , dry mouthed , along the empty street it seemed I had found it The shock when I saw the two burly SPs strolling towards me was like a blow but was immediately followed by a strange calm . |
| 17 | On the album I make the comment that somebody had asked me the same question and I said , ‘ Yep , my left hand 's doing good , right hand 's doing alright , my mind 's as sharp as a tack . |
| 18 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
| 19 | That wonderful love they had shared and which had given her the precious gift of a son . |
| 20 | I think she must have seen a lot of things at that time which had made her the way she was , seen things in the blackout and in the underground stations . |
| 21 | Mrs Grandison , the mother of Sophia and Penelope , had the remains of her daughters ' Pre-Raphaelite beauty , now much faded and overlaid with some other quality , which had made her the President of the Women 's Institute in the village where she lived but which did not seem to be quite Pre-Raphaelite . |
| 22 | Their initiative was thought to have been in response to an open letter published on Jan. 15 under the signatures of three former Presidents , the Archbishop of Bogotá , and the leader of the left-wing Patriotic Union Party ( UP ) , which had offered them the prospect of " society 's support … for less rigorous treatment " by the government if they released the estimated dozens of hostages they had seized over the previous two months and stopped drug trafficking . |
| 23 | Party members and SA men , who in 1933 had seen themselves as posing a radical , populist alternative to the conservative Reichswehr , now took a back seat and simply provided the setting for the triumphant reception of young officers of the Wehrmacht , heroes home on leave from the Front recounting tales of stirring deeds which had earned them the Ritterkreuz . |
| 24 | Jean 's precocious bubble of confidence , which had earned her the attention of her parents , was replaced by a sense of guilt about what had happened which lasted into later life . |
| 25 | It was dedication of that order which had won her the reputation of one of the finest young actresses around . |
| 26 | But yesterday Mr and Mrs Lewis said they were disgusted at the situation , which had left them the victims . |
| 27 | ‘ You might n't have thought so if you 'd seen them the next day , ’ said Toby . |
| 28 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 29 | It would n't have surprised me if you 'd given me the boot there and then . |
| 30 | mm , like every thing else you told me you 'd finished it the other day |