Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just on the shall we say off-chance I asked what the situation was regarding additional lines between Norwich and Crawley as between Stansted Norwich and Crawley to see if there was anything under way and what the approximate cost would be because erm well I know there 's more D D I facilities now . |
| 2 | The whole Legion surrounded itself with mystery in multiple layers , and the further one penetrated it the more complex the mystery became . |
| 3 | I said then all you have to do is tell her how much she hurt you the last time |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm delighted they left you the house , ’ Julia told Margaret . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm so glad I told you the truth this morning . |
| 6 | Okay having done that we discussed what the content of the course was going to be and then I asked you to make a first presentation . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you sure you gave him the message right ? |
| 8 | He 'd allowed her closer than anyone else , and when his clothes were off and he was tired she read him the way she read the weather or the mountains or the dust , she ran her fingers over his pale , scarred body and she guessed close to the truth . |
| 9 | Chf Insp Longstaff said club managers had a responsibility to make sure they knew what the law required of them . |
| 10 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 11 | I stayed well clear of the sort of people who thought I had a dead-end job in the Civil Service , and those who knew what the job was stayed clear of me . |
| 12 | The police have told how the youths who had abducted James asked those who challenged them the way to Walton Hall police station . |
| 13 | Rachel 's grandfather , former Liverpool docker Billy Brown , 80 , has condemned those who gave her the amphetamine-based , mind-bending drug as ‘ evil ’ . |
| 14 | Another winner from those who gave you the world 's best-selling commercial GPS navigator . |
| 15 | It was James I who gave him the epithet ‘ judicious ’ and enjoined his son , the future King Charles 1 , to study his works . |
| 16 | First we checked what the food supplies were like in the area simply by looking at what the local cats were bringing in . |
| 17 | At first they called themselves the ‘ Automobile Mutual Association ’ . |
| 18 | I 'm quite an independent person , but I was quite insecure , I needed someone to say this is good , this is bad , and because he was doing that it gave me the determination I needed . |
| 19 | Though deeply Anglo-Catholic he rejected what the world thought of as Anglo-Catholic fuss , a mistaking of the right vestment for the right religion . |
| 20 | In particular it showed me the many opportunities we have , and that we are a talented organisation . |
| 21 | All the same he left her the majority of his considerable fortune when he died — but with one stipulation : |
| 22 | By the mid-Fifties he considered himself the natural leader of world Communism . |
| 23 | I would have left had I not seen he was wearing something I had n't seen on him before , and had to ask him about it , certain I knew what the answer would be . |
| 24 | When I was eighteen she gave me the job of housekeeper in the big cottage she kept at Streatlam to entertain her friends coming to swim in the pool and play tennis . |