Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He talked of ‘ the white man 's Christ ’ , invoked to preserve what the white man has got ; and of the ‘ black man 's Christ ’ — the Christ of suffering and sacrifice . |
| 2 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 3 | To add realism I then used to turn one the ginger-haired player to face the goal and said ‘ What the fuck was that ’ in a Scottish accent . |
| 4 | I tried to ring her the other day as going to a seminar at my solicitors office nearby and had hoped to walk up plus dog , leave Bella for duration of seminar and pick her up again = kill exercise bird with seminar stone as it were . |
| 5 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 6 | She was sure that at some point she 'd given someone the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing . |
| 7 | As we 're roping up , who should arrive to tie on but the lad who 'd joined me the previous day . |
| 8 | And Jimmy [ Jewel ] came to see him the other day and we walked across the road to the pub . |
| 9 | He came to see me the other evening . |
| 10 | " David Fairfax came to see you the other day , " Matthew went on . |
| 11 | Somehow she had imagined them both greeting Peter together , wrapped in each other 's arms , confirming what Peter had already imagined when he 'd rung her the other morning . |
| 12 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 13 | In fact if we 'd done it the proper way you 'd of had |
| 14 | There had been tears in her father 's eyes as he 'd handed her the satin-lined box containing the jewels and Emily , taking it , had felt a constriction in her throat for , with the gift , her father was recognizing she was now a woman . |
| 15 | Jesus , as the Alpha and Omega , the beginning and the end , Jesus , who came to give us the good news , news worth singing about . |
| 16 | I 'd left you the full address , and the telephone number and a fully detailed map . |
| 17 | mm , like every thing else you told me you 'd finished it the other day |
| 18 | Now , they consulted their executive committee , and agreed to give us the free use of an empty office . |
| 19 | Then our dance teacher began to teach us the basic steps . |
| 20 | Neither could I conceal that although I wrote to my parents once a week ( a school rule ) they scarcely ever wrote to me , and failed to send me the necessary supplies of toothpaste , stockings , etc. , so that I was always having to borrow from other girls ( strictly against the rules ) and getting into trouble as a result . |
| 21 | ‘ Operations in the national interest ’ was a favourite phrase ; good and sharp , and carrying the implication that if you needed to know what the national interest was , you did not deserve to be told . |
| 22 | Zen decided to give him the only answer he had been able to come up with . |
| 23 | A choice of dates is available from which to reckon the life of the College : 1 8 February 1791 , when the London committee decided to call itself The Veterinary College , London , and 8 April 1791 , when the president , vice-presidents and directors were elected and the statutes and regulations were approved . |
| 24 | ’ There was even some guy in Minnesota or Detroit or somewhere who killed a load of people and they started to call them the Lost Boy Murders , but I did n't take too much notice of it all . |
| 25 | Whatever was down there was very heavy and Endill shuddered to think what the giant eel would look like when it loomed into view . |
| 26 | Q : We paid for our holiday in Paphos , Cyprus , in January , but 36 hours before we were due to leave our tour operator , Saga Holidays , rang to tell us the Roman Hotel in Paphos was double-booked and to offer us the first week at another hotel which was , in our opinion , inferior . |
| 27 | Alright , she 'll be expecting she reckons she 's due on the twenty third of March , but the hospital say it 's , it 's the twenty ninth , so it 'll be next week , I 'll have to give a ring , we went to see her the other week , to see how she was , erm we went round er one night , I rung her up to see if she 'd be in , I said right we 'll be round for an hour |
| 28 | Went to see them the other week |
| 29 | I had n't been to the dump for a while , and it was about time I went to see what the good folk of Porteneil had thrown out . |
| 30 | I kept kicking it the other day and I thought well it feels ever so light , I thought there was quite a few left . |