Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As we 're roping up , who should arrive to tie on but the lad who 'd joined me the previous day . |
| 4 | And Jimmy [ Jewel ] came to see him the other day and we walked across the road to the pub . |
| 5 | He came to see me the other evening . |
| 6 | " David Fairfax came to see you the other day , " Matthew went on . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In fact if we 'd done it the proper way you 'd of had |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Jesus , as the Alpha and Omega , the beginning and the end , Jesus , who came to give us the good news , news worth singing about . |
| 12 | I 'd left you the full address , and the telephone number and a fully detailed map . |
| 13 | mm , like every thing else you told me you 'd finished it the other day |
| 14 | Now , they consulted their executive committee , and agreed to give us the free use of an empty office . |
| 15 | Then our dance teacher began to teach us the basic steps . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Zen decided to give him the only answer he had been able to come up with . |
| 18 | ’ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Went to see them the other week |
| 22 | I kept kicking it the other day and I thought well it feels ever so light , I thought there was quite a few left . |
| 23 | It did award her the prestigious Hughes medal in 1906 , the first medal awarded to a woman by the Royal Society . |
| 24 | wardens and whatever , we do n't take the double yellow lines half seriously enough , erm and I think parking generally is , is something we 're very bad at and I 'm an occasional sinner in this respect too , but it , it did strike me the other day , erm paying a fifteen pound fine for parking on a single yellow line on a Sunday afternoon but I had n't noticed a sign that said I should n't , erm paying that fifteen pound fine in other words not having paid the six pound instant fine , I remember thinking that , really there 's , there was no way of talking back , and I had in fact attempted an explanation as to why I 'd done it , and explained the reasons why I thought this really was very overlookable on the side of the law , erm I do n't suppose they paid much attention to it , I do n't imagine giving it a moment 's thought at all . |
| 25 | But they had all laughed and Meg , for the missing loaf , had punished him the usual way , locked-up thirsty in the room . |
| 26 | they 'd take a piece with them and that was all they had to sustain them the whole day . |
| 27 | Mrs Bradford had given her the complete day off for her father 's funeral and she did n't have to be back at the house in Newcastle Place until six o'clock . |
| 28 | It would be typical of Jacqui 's naivety to believe that she was dealing with an honest man who had given her the only copies in existence . |
| 29 | Fortunately her upbringing had given her the social training to cope with these situations . |
| 30 | Adam pointed to a framed cartoon , which he had given her the previous Christmas : a startled businessman gazed at a ghost ; rising from his desk drawer , it said , ‘ I am the spirit of old notes to yourself . ’ |