Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he left I phoned to wish him all the best and he said , ‘ keep on picking people 's brains ’ . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Tod Richardson , ’ I repeat , speaking flatly , nodding to Vinnie Dirkin as if I 'd guessed it all the while . |
| 3 | My father was a Gemini , and I knew your mother was a Sagittarian as soon as I found he 'd given her half the clip . |
| 4 | ‘ Olinda , ’ she brought out her name again for good measure , ‘ seemed to find you attractive the other night . ’ |
| 5 | They thought he was a bit peculiar , maybe , but they 'd accepted him all the same . |
| 6 | So he 'd had it all the time . |
| 7 | That intolerable woman , she thought bitterly , had managed to become president of the Tollemarche Downtown Community Centre by a majority of a single vote , and Mrs Frizzell had had to be content with the vice-presidency , which office she declared gave her all the work and none of the authority . |
| 8 | And now , to make the newt feel more at home , Lavender decided to give it all the pond-weed from the pencil-box as well . |
| 9 | " I forbore to give you all the details of your great-aunt 's will the other day , Sara , " Mr. Crowther droned on . |
| 10 | He knew I 'd be interested in the reward money before he started telling me all the details , otherwise he 'd have kept most of it to himself . |
| 11 | And in his opinion that meant sending it all the way to Sotheby 's whose rural saleroom in a stately home in Billingshurst , West Sussex , has made a speciality in recent years of sales of garden furniture , fittings and statuary . |
| 12 | ‘ They have made us offers and kept changing them all the time . |
| 13 | Like there was this girl , she worked in the paper shop down the road , and there was this black kid who kept pestering her all the time , so we had to go down and sort him out . |
| 14 | I did n't know how to begin , so began by assuming that my parents knew where I was and then proceeded to tell them all the details of the food , living conditions , pay and training . |
| 15 | It has been completely revised and updated to give you all the practical information and advice you need to help protect your family , your property and your community . |
| 16 | Miss Thorne had taught them all the names of the different stage areas . |
| 17 | He wound his window down and thought momentarily of his brother-in-law , Eddie Kruger , who had taught him all the conversational German he knew . |
| 18 | Of course the main thing about the shoes was that I had to wear them all the time . |
| 19 | He supposed that the man with the Northern actorish accent had given her all the advice she needed . |
| 20 | Piphros had given her all the information possible in a limited way . |
| 21 | Bossard was sentenced to 21 years ' imprisonment and once again it seems that the Russians were willing to sacrifice an agent , probably because Bossard had given them all the details he could of the American rocket-guidance systems , in order to enhance the credibility of Top Hat so that he could continue peddling disinformation . |
| 22 | That first act of over-familiarity had secured him all the credit he would ever need and besides he felt wild , restless , a mood in which he knew himself all too prone to indiscretion . |
| 23 | Although she was not at ease herself and did not expect to be until she had told him all the painful things he would surely wish to know . |
| 24 | There seemed no point in justifying her mistake still further , so she merely sat down in silence and allowed Lyddy to place paper and ink and a pen before her , just as if she had summoned her all the way upstairs for that very purpose . |
| 25 | Yet he had found her all the same . |
| 26 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 27 | It had amused her all the way through the heavy traffic , but now her thoughts went far away , back with Felipe . |
| 28 | The words ‘ The child is father to the man ’ , had haunted me all the morning . |
| 29 | Those two were going to give her the creeps if she really had to take them all the way to Titan . |
| 30 | We had to push them all the time , all the time . |