Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quickly she pulled her hand away from his and opened the car door to scramble out . |
| 2 | " It was me that shot the bull , son . |
| 3 | Why did you think it was me that wrote the letter ? |
| 4 | So there were parts of me that watched the naming ceremony for the new catapult with some amusement , even contempt . |
| 5 | ‘ Although it was an ensemble piece , ’ said Richard Lester , ‘ I felt that Michael and Rita Tushingham were the co-leads because we structured the film more around the two of them than did the play , which was a fairly even four-hander . ’ |
| 6 | He conducted detailed negotiations with a consortium of the four clearing banks and , enlisting my assistance at occasional meetings , contrived an arrangement with them that made the economics a possibility , while , I have to confess , retaining some attraction for the banks . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , one of them that caused the trouble , he has n't got a father , you see , so therefore … and he was mucking about and she told him to get out and of course he answered her back , which I do n't think she could take really . |
| 8 | This was , this is what it said last night , one of them that lost the weight said , she said it must of been her , yeah |
| 9 | He is a lying bastard and he has just used me and wiped the floor with me . |
| 10 | I had no regrets as I slammed the door behind me and left the cottage for the last time . |
| 11 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 12 | He pulled up about three yards from me and stuck the boat into full reverse to stop . |
| 13 | Our Mickey [ Margy 's brother ] came looking for us and he kicked me and took the bairn away . |
| 14 | She finished , fluttered her lashes at me and smoothed the corduroy dress over her wide hips . |
| 15 | He grinned at me and tweaked the nipple . |
| 16 | Toby looked meaningfully at me and changed the subject as we moved towards the table for lunch . |
| 17 | The Queen looked at me and glimpsed the iron chain in my hand . |
| 18 | I would have loved to have swung the sodding bag and hit him straight in the balls but the old tight-fist snatched it off me and threw the gold on to the hall floor so he could watch his courtiers scramble . |
| 19 | He was about to skip past me and hit the bomb with the piece of wood — he had already raised it above his head and made the lunge — when I reached out and caught him round the waist . |
| 20 | Later on the manager decided that , in recognition of the outstanding and unsung work that embalmers do , he had overcharged them and sent the porter upstairs with a £5 refund for them . |
| 21 | The guide , who helped save Prince Charles 's life in an avalanche four years ago , dropped them and told the duchess : ‘ You can rely on me . ’ |
| 22 | The Girls were most impressed when Mary bought a Daimler and employed a chauffeur so they in turn bought a car between them and shared the running costs . |
| 23 | Even more crucially , the TUC 's tactics had turned the press against them and provoked the opposition of the nurses ' negotiators . |
| 24 | Mr Hurkett said : ‘ I ran to them and saw the car being driven down the road . |
| 25 | Molassi scowled at all three of them and sheathed the knife He strutted angrily and aimlessly off . |
| 26 | He reached out a hand to the small metallic dispenser beside them and pressed the sensor plate on its side . |
| 27 | Now the Moors began to enter the gardens which were round about the town , and the watchman saw them and struck the bell . |
| 28 | The stone steps were narrow , and she did n't like stone steps , they were greasy when wet , but she made the bottom of them and inserted the key in the lock . |
| 29 | Only Rodrigo now stood between them and prevented the whole of Moslem Spain from reverting to independent Moorish rule . |
| 30 | They had copied out the names and addresses of everyone who wrote to them and enclosed the list with a message of thanks and good wishes , asking that it be sent on . |