Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christina cringed as Susanna pronounced it the American way . |
| 2 | Yeah Sue told me the other day that er she wo n't come out till she 's , she 's right cold . |
| 3 | When we arrived , Helen Stoner showed us the three bedrooms . |
| 4 | Monsieur Saulnier informed me the other day that it was not usual in this part of Normandy to have so many mosquitoes . |
| 5 | That is why , when the French economy was screaming for lower interest rates , President Mitterrand increased them the other day . |
| 6 | Dennis gave me the vague smile of complicity that men exchange in lavatorial situations . |
| 7 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 8 | When his wife returned , Linkworth told her the same believable story and she accepted it completely . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 10 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 11 | They stamped round the sofa and did that tricky bit of acrobatics that Sid and Ethel showed us the other night . |
| 12 | People said things like for instance well females are n't intelligent enough to make choices and er which is , which is clearly pretty silly , and er there was also I think and the uncomfortable erm prospect that females could in some way or another control the evolution in males which I do n't think it appealed to the Victorians either and in fact many social Darwinists like Edward Westermark for example rejected the whole concept of sexual selection as Darwin called it the female choice , because it did n't promote survival of the fittest . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ Alan rang me the other night and told me to bring my hosepipe because he 's on fire at the moment . |
| 14 | When Walter Ash rang her the next day she would not speak to him . |
| 15 | Wickham gave him the withering look of a man whose junior reads too many detective stories . |
| 16 | It was such a desultory question that Ruth gave him the filthiest look she could muster . |
| 17 | Azharuddin gave him the three-fours-in-an-over treatment , driving all three off the back foot . |
| 18 | It was said that Gertrude gave him the final result . |
| 19 | After all , days before the invasion surprised President Bush , his ambassador , presumably not speaking just for herself , told Saddam in so many words that Washington gave him the green light on Kuwait . |
| 20 | He was created baronet in 1837 , but Sir Robert Peel refused him the Irish peerage promised him by Melbourne . |
| 21 | The bus took a very long and roundabout route to Linby , through a dozen tiny villages and hamlets , but Cheryl thought the journey was worth it when Jessica handed her the promised signalling flags . |
| 22 | ‘ I knew Faye had some complications and needed a nurse — Tom mentioned it the other day — but I had no idea you were a sort of watchdog as well . |
| 23 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 24 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is that Helen told me the same thing . |
| 25 | When Anthony arrived spent and ill-looking from the hospital later that evening , Julia handed him the thin yellow sheet and was relieved to see a lightening in his dark grey eyes and a faint smile on his thin lips . |
| 26 | ‘ Kenny called me the other week to congratulate me the day after I broke Roger Hunt 's club scoring record at Manchester United . |
| 27 | He eventually came to Madeira where Zarco gave him the large area of fertile land around Madalena do Mar . |
| 28 | I was pleased to see his grin varnish when Mala gave him the vicious edge of her tongue for ignoring the Ardakkean request for discretion , causing the FedPol squad to visit Vadinamia . |
| 29 | ‘ Philip told me the splendid news , Eileen . |
| 30 | They told , Diane told me the other night though , she 's had three years that she should n't have had . |