Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We shall be leaving Peking for Sian at 11.30 this evening , and the comrades have given us a rousing send off with beautiful presents including a big embroidered tablecloth and napkins , and a beautiful framed picture made out of shells , with an inscription written on it specially for & I. They also gave us the enclosed photos , which give you an idea of what life is like here . |
| 32 | ‘ It also gave us the seven seats we needed . ’ |
| 33 | They put it on to tape and called it ‘ Cossachok ’ , but later gave it the proper title of ‘ Hopak ’ . |
| 34 | These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater . |
| 35 | She enjoyed hearing about the governess 's letters which would never be received and translations of East End rhyming slang , but did n't think he actually listened to her , he often asked her the same questions . |
| 36 | His 1970s cycle of the complete Symphonies all too often gave us the plainer side of Masur 's musical nature : these tend to be rather sober accounts . |
| 37 | He made such a fine job of the earth , the sea and the hills ; He made an equally fine job of the creatures , large and small that run around on the land ; He even gave us the best crags in the world … |
| 38 | His great courage at the time eventually earned him the Military Cross , but the harrowing experience was for a long while foremost in his mind and symbolized by the walk back to his commanding officer over a mass of dead German and British soldiers in which his feet scarcely touched the ground . |
| 39 | Gould virtually admitted it the other day . ’ |
| 40 | I abruptly asked them the same question I had of Benjamin . |
| 41 | Annunziata , who had accepted the hug , made Julia get back into bed and then told her the whole story . |
| 42 | The owner then swapped me the beautiful picture with which he had boarded his shed window . |
| 43 | For working-class girls ( unlike middle-class girls , for whom comprehensives potentially offered them the academic education denied to many under the systems of 11 + weighting ) comprehensives probably made little difference . |
| 44 | So a cat entering your house and being welcomed there gave you the good luck of having the Devil on your side . |
| 45 | And he either phoned me the following morning or if it was n't the following morning it was the one after that . |
| 46 | About to make a flippant reply , she checked herself and instead gave him the exact truth . |
| 47 | In his absence , I afterwards asked them the same questions , and they were able to explain quite adequately . |
| 48 | She gathered up the bags and pushed them towards the child ; and when he reluctantly handed her the two pennies she said , ‘ Thank you very much . |
| 49 | And erm , it wa , at the reception afterwards we actually paid him the fine er , a contribution to a a , a fund his church had for a painting they wanted to buy . |
| 50 | They actually called me the green-eyed monster . |
| 51 | so I actually took it the other way that , you know , do you just want a cup of tea . |
| 52 | True I never saw him the worse for drink , but often the better . |
| 53 | And I like Lovejoy , except I 've missed but they 're repeats , but I never saw it the first time . |
| 54 | I might have returned to match fishing , which never gave me the same enjoyment , even when I won , that a big fish always does , and , I hope , always will . |
| 55 | Never gave him the slightest hint . ’ |
| 56 | I shall not follow the hon. Member for Newry and Armagh ( Mr. Mallon ) who spoke about Ireland , because I am not qualified to do so , except to say that Ireland recently gave us the best rugby match in the world cup . |
| 57 | Mr Anderson therefore gave him the Hailing Ferry in perpetuity and set him up in a shed selling chandlery to the barge owners . |