Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] i the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robson said yesterday : ‘ Bobby told me the atmosphere got to certain players last time . |
| 2 | When I arrived , Small showed me the bodies of two lambs killed by foxes the previous night . |
| 3 | Nor were the books that Edward showed me the kind of thing I would normally have read — not , at least , as anything more than a casual browse among the dustier nooks of human eccentricity . |
| 4 | Kathleen offered me the use of her office telephone and so , one morning , I settled down to make some enquiries . |
| 5 | Beatrix sent me the letters and that 's all . |
| 6 | Blyth saved me the trouble of suggesting a game of football by doing it himself . |
| 7 | Rex gave me the glance . |
| 8 | And last night Doyle told me the truth behind the bizarre and evil campaign . |
| 9 | Ginny lent me The King Must Die . |
| 10 | So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually . |
| 11 | ‘ All credit to Gavin gave me the ball in the end , with a little persuasion . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't mind telling you , Doctor , Mrs Carrow gave me the creeps sometimes when I took on looking after Miss Celia . |
| 13 | erm Jane gave me the figures and as I say this division is about forty seven percent . |
| 14 | Back in the mid-1970s , Philip Rowntree gave me the funds to establish the Low Pay Unit ( LPU ) to campaign on behalf of workers in Wage Council industries . |
| 15 | Daisy Yates showed me the postcard she had had from him that morning . |
| 16 | When Stephen told me the name of the submarine captain , I recognized it . |
| 17 | Clive Rice threw me the ball and just said : ‘ Right , get on with it ’ . |
| 18 | After supper ( we 're back to normal ) Caliban handed me The Catcher in the Rye and said , I 've read it . |
| 19 | That trip back to Winston Street taught me the answer . |
| 20 | From the time that my colleagues in the House of Commons did me the honour of electing me to be their leader I have felt that I was in the position of a trustee ; and even throughout the war the one thing that I have aimed at constantly has been to preserve . |
| 21 | Mme Deloche taught me the basics I needed to learn . |
| 22 | The pater told me his former guardians had frittered away the money his father left him , and Harry told me the amount of the salary Mr Harvey pays him . |
| 23 | My husband Kerry bought me the Boots one for £30 , and it 's been fabulous . |
| 24 | Ian Hay told me the lady 's last wish had been that the Colonel should scatter her ashes in the headwaters of the River Laxford : ‘ But , you see , his new young wife was not the sort of lady to enjoy much walking and the poor Colonel just did n't know how he was going to get the job done . |
| 25 | Of this Miller writes , ‘ It grows naturally in the West Indies , whence the late Mr. Robert Miller sent me the seeds ’ , and it would seem likely that Ehret 's specimen had been raised at Chelsea . |
| 26 | Dot said , ‘ Mrs Hollidaye gave me the money for a cab . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I said nothing from myself , but I prayed , and then said whatever God gave me the confidence to say … when the need arose , God opened even the ass 's mouth ’ . |
| 28 | Dianne told me the score so anyway you 're like a friend can go with you . |
| 29 | They wrote , they wrote back and Carole showed me the letter and said that this is n't this is |
| 30 | The author remembers seeing the internal correspondence on this matter in 1951 when J.M. Dunn showed me the file on the matter . |