Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a monologue called ‘ Good News ’ , in which Beattie enthused down the phone at great length to a young man who 'd apparently done her the most enormous good turn . |
| 2 | Yeah , well tell him you 'll put him in his diary , I I would have thought if you 'd just sent him the notes to each meeting he would come if he would , if he could , and if he ca n't , he ca n't . |
| 3 | She 'd even given them the evidence herself . |
| 4 | Except she was saying that you 'd actually offered her the job . ’ |
| 5 | Jacqui had only given him the Christian name . |
| 6 | ‘ If you had only given us the Law : Dayenu ! … |
| 7 | The most prominent families had no objection to service — it had long offered them the surest route to power , wealth , and prestige . |
| 8 | Somebody had apparently given her the matchbook and she had been carrying it around with her ever since . ’ |
| 9 | Pertwee had already employed it the previous morning effectively to terminate interrogation . |
| 10 | He had already sent me the Strachey book , The Theory and Practice of Marxism , and Spender 's , the original title of which was The Approach to Communism , seemed to me to go with it very well . |
| 11 | This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’ |
| 12 | Certainly such people existed , but the man who allowed his mind and soul to be ruled by their existence had already handed them the better part of the argument . |
| 13 | She had n't taken part in the questioning but the others , Mair knew , would assume that that was because he had already told her the answers . |
| 14 | A hush of skirts had already told her the girls were coming down from upstairs . |
| 15 | The local ombudsman found Lancashire SSD had not given her the support and counselling she needed . |
| 16 | He had not provided water to wash the feet and had not given him the traditional greeting of a kiss ( Luke 7:44–45 ) . |
| 17 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 18 | It was clear that Holmes ' cleverness with the telegram had not given us the proof we needed . |
| 19 | She gazed , wide-eyed , at the first large town she had ever visited , for Matilda had not permitted her the freedom of Gloucester . |
| 20 | Perhaps , they said , he was married or engaged and had not told me the truth about himself . |
| 21 | She had not told them the whereabouts of the lavatory . |
| 22 | So when asked why I had not told her the whole story , I replied , ‘ Because you never asked me . ’ |
| 23 | she had guessed Taczek had not told her the whole truth of his relationship with Mills but now had confirmation . |
| 24 | Stephen had just granted me the barony , and I decided ‘ t was time I had a wife . |
| 25 | He had just given her the chocolates and she had kissed him . |
| 26 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |
| 27 | Brackenbury was kindly , and had always shown them the courtesy due to their rank — and himself as their ally . |
| 28 | She had never held a baby before that was not a fat , well-dressed , sweet-smelling thing , but not one of them had ever given her the strange sense of fulfilment which the pitiful scrap of humanity in her arms , wrapped in the square which she had earlier scissored from her petticoat , did . |
| 29 | Someone had once called it the biggest open mental institution in the world , one of the twin armpits of the British Isles , presumably with Glasgow as the other , Glasgow before the tartan yuppies got to it . |
| 30 | Tories , long , short and tall , queued with the stoicism that had once made us the envy of the world . |