Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eloise Brückner handed him the Munich Zeitung , open at the second page . |
| 2 | When I was put in charge of the start-up at Fawley at the ripe old age of twenty-nine most of my team were people who were twenty years older than I was and being on shift with a lot of operating people taught me the problems and the realisation that I could learn a hell of a lot from them — the realisation that the chap on the shop floor usually knows far more about what 's going on than management does . |
| 3 | Brynulf Ottar told him the organization , known as XU , involved a secret network based in Oslo , a courier line to Stockholm , and Swedes , Germans and Norwegians in Germany to provide the information from source . |
| 4 | Faldo took his 1992 winnings to a world record £1.5m , while Norman 's only consolation was that the £190,234 runner's-up cheque made him the first player in history to breech the $10 million barrier in career earnings . |
| 5 | She said : ‘ I suppose selling newspapers gave me the smell for print . |
| 6 | There were few pedestrians about and the dimly lit pavement afforded him the cover he needed . |
| 7 | A kind , serene girl called June told her the reason . |
| 8 | I think Joe told him the name of his attackers , and it 's obviously someone … someone … " |
| 9 | His sparse blond hair was dark with sweat , and his surprised blue eyes and hangdog look made him the most unlikely royal messenger Corbett had ever seen . |
| 10 | This appears , sadly , to be the situation in many countries , and suggestions like the one from the WHO document Social and health aspects of sexually transmitted disease ( 1977 ) that ‘ it is essential for clinics to have the basic equipment required for making rapid diagnosis : the darkfield examination , a quick micro-flocculation test for syphilis , and smear and culture of specimens for gonorrhoea ’ are not much use to a health worker in a village in India , who , far from considering buying a microscope , can not obtain the antibiotics needed to cure gonorrhoea had he the facilities for diagnosing it . |
| 11 | Its poised , out-thrust head gave it the appearance of a cobra , a white cobra . |
| 12 | Mr Forbes said Ballantine told him the boy was dead and told him to phone the police . |
| 13 | They said Farrow gave him the Valentine with ‘ a gentle , almost kindly ’ glance after he had given her an embroidered heart and a red satin box of chocolates . |
| 14 | Well when that Joe and Annie got married Joe gave me the little purse with a threepenny bit in . |