Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the tabloid press I became the villain who put his knife into Noddy and his boot into Biggles . |
| 2 | I asked the man who owns it and he said you could have the Headmaster 's Study . ’ |
| 3 | I asked the officer who was looking out of the window if there was a curfew . |
| 4 | It was to try to shed some further light on this matter that on 2 July 1992 , by way of a written question , I asked the Government its view of the legal status of agreements appended to treaties amending the Treaty of Rome . |
| 5 | I asked the captain what they did when they did when they had ladies parties ? |
| 6 | I asked the under-foreman what I 'd done to deserve this , he says You 're not on your own , there 's er a quarter to go this week and good many next , so that 's what it 's come to . |
| 7 | I asked the gaffer I says can I get out ? |
| 8 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 9 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 10 | If I ruled the world everyone would sing and shout , war and bombs are the things I would throw out . |
| 11 | I afterwards met Mr Blair at the Congress , and observing his deep solicitude for Kildalton , I admitted the claims which its neglected state had upon my faith and affection , and remarked that it was not the pecuniary sacrifice that I should make that would deter me , so much as the expenditure I had lately incurred on my House and Glebe , and which would in a measure be thrown away , by my moving to Islay . |
| 12 | Judy , 43 , said : ‘ I made the choice myself to go . |
| 13 | That was how prospective clients often made contact , since Mala and I made the ship our home and office , in space , much of the time . |
| 14 | ‘ I design clothes and I made the trousers myself . |
| 15 | After I made the cut I folded back the turf ( still using the spade ) and saw the nest . |
| 16 | When I announced the results I paid tribute to places such as Wigan and St. Helens |
| 17 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 18 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 19 | Then when , a few months later , I met the man who was to become my husband , I was told in no uncertain terms that Helen — would n't you know it ? — did not approve . |
| 20 | The one major event which happened to me at Binbrook , and which was going to change my life , was that I met the man I was eventually to marry , although a lot of water would flow under the bridge before the wedding took place . |
| 21 | When I met the mother she was extremely depressed verging on suicidal and was given by the workers at the clinic a new sari to try and cheer her up . |
| 22 | ‘ But I did stand in for one of your girls at Jenkinsons last week — and I sold the suit I showed . ’ |
| 23 | I sold the jewels I was wearing and de Michelet and I had a splendid time until the money was gone . |
| 24 | On the way I passed the rabbit I thought had escaped , lying just before the sparkling clean water of the stream ; blackened and contorted , locked into a weird , twisted crouch , its dead dry eyes staring up at me as I passed by , accusatory . |
| 25 | Whenever I passed the Treasurer he was talking not of £s but of the difficulty of ‘ number 14 ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ As I passed the boy I saw in the mirror the car had pulled out sharply to overtake and I just heard the bang . |
| 27 | As I passed the portals my feeling of doom increased . |
| 28 | As I passed the ladies I noticed that the beer crates stashed in front of the Fire Exit had been moved aside . |
| 29 | It was our first morning of filming and when I rode the horse I really liked him . |
| 30 | That evening I roasted the chestnuts I 'd picked |