Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before he left , Creed had given him the date . |
| 2 | Lisa felt the cold finger of panic momentarily touch her , just as it had when , over the phone earlier , the girl from the claims department had told her the awful truth . |
| 3 | Eleanor had given him the opportunity he had needed . |
| 4 | By Thursday , some journalists were reporting that a Royal aide had told them the marriage was ‘ clearly not made in heaven ’ . |
| 5 | By turning record-packers into talent scouts , magazine salesmen into managers , Branson had paid them the compliment of saying ‘ I trust you ’ . |
| 6 | Mrs Wright had given him the key to lock the door but he had n't locked it . |
| 7 | At this juncture , I realized that I had driven close to the point where the boat had landed me the previous evening . |
| 8 | His years in the ring had left him the legacy of being quick on his feet , and he caught Larsen some twenty yards short of the door . |
| 9 | Of course , Delia Sutherland had personalised it the way women do , in her case with a trace of dog . |
| 10 | Chico offered Rex the kind of comforting smile Rex had offered him the night before . |
| 11 | His clemency had earned him the regard of the West and would , surely , last until Twelfth Night . |
| 12 | He looked at her and understood why her parents had given her the name . |
| 13 | His position within the duchy had brought him the support of men who would otherwise have been outside his sphere of influence , as well as making him the better lord for his own servants . |
| 14 | His position within the duchy had brought him the support of men who would otherwise have been outside his sphere of influence , as well as making him the better lord for his own servants . |
| 15 | Her time with Giles had cost her the equivalent of a layer of skin . |
| 16 | He ate in the canteen , spoke with some of the robots , wandered into the sitting room where Roirbak had left him the stack of films , rejected every one as boring , and decided to do a little exploring . |
| 17 | Even a bare second had shown him the gauntness of her face , its pallor throwing the make-up into a strange relief , like those simulated three-dimensional photographs . |
| 18 | Clive James , whose Observer column had made him the doyen of television critics in the Seventies , wrote ; ‘ One has been kept from previous series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em by its awful title , but it is time to say what everybody is saying-that the show is a must . |
| 19 | He 'd known he would n't be putting on the act as soon as the boy had handed him the carrier . |
| 20 | We did have them , for County Hall had sent us the list of these hospitals and their separate functions . |
| 21 | Having saved him from almost certain death in the morning at the hands of the enemy , fate had collected him the same evening by a stray bullet fired in error by a Maltese Army recruit . |
| 22 | With that instinct for survival that had kept the Member for Arden in Parliament for so long , Grunte had sold him the car at a nil rate of interest . |
| 23 | The other English Duke in Brussels , Wellington , would have been grateful had he known that Richmond had spared him the Duchess 's worries , for the Commander-in-Chief of the British and Dutch armies already had more than enough worries of his own . |
| 24 | Capron had lent me the gun , and suggested the ploy of telling Graham that I had found new evidence that would clear his name of the allegations that he was a Soviet agent . |
| 25 | She was a nurse at a hospital on the other side of the village , and Killion had met her the previous evening by simply walking into the hospital and asking the first girl he saw if she would come out with him . |
| 26 | After Mr Brocklehurst had given me the book and left , I felt I had to speak . |
| 27 | Willi had given them the briefest of explanations for their presence being required but they were becoming as alarmed as Gesner by this talk of lawsuits and the resignation of Franz Busacher . |
| 28 | The French press noted that the Mauritanian government 's pro-Iraqi alignment during the Gulf war had lost it the financial support of certain Gulf states , leaving it more dependent on French aid . |
| 29 | Stephen had given her the task of co-ordinating the interiors for the hotel , following the design schemes he had commissioned from a well-known Paris-based designer . |
| 30 | Her husband had left her the year before for some Tex-Mex bitch , claiming that she was too boring to live with . |