Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] i the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 2 | It would n't have surprised me if you 'd given me the boot there and then . |
| 3 | Perhaps he thought that , and he 'd given me the slip . |
| 4 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 5 | ‘ If you 'd told me the truth about that years ago , none of this wretched business would have happened . ’ |
| 6 | She glared at me , dug beneath her cloak and pushed a purse ( much leaner than the one she had given me the night before ) into my hand . |
| 7 | He had given me the runaround in his sleep . |
| 8 | I told him that Jo had given me the cash , though I was suitably vague as to exactly how I recovered her lost property . |
| 9 | After Mr Brocklehurst had given me the book and left , I felt I had to speak . |
| 10 | Jamila had phoned me the day after Helen and I fucked in Anerley Park to tell me of her decision . |
| 11 | Matthew McIllvanney was not the real boss of Cutwater Yacht Charters ( Bahamas ) Limited , which belonged to a retired theatre owner who now lived in Bermuda and was a long-time friend of my father , a friendship that had secured me the job of skippering Wavebreaker when Masquerade was wrecked , but McIllvanney actually looked after the day-to-day running of the charter business . |
| 12 | Capron had lent me the gun , and suggested the ploy of telling Graham that I had found new evidence that would clear his name of the allegations that he was a Soviet agent . |
| 13 | Dod had got me the job and we were using his van , so everything was okay by me . |
| 14 | My readings in Zen , too , had shown me the folly of love , analysed it as an illusion among all the other illusions of this floating and temporary world , an emotion that by its very nature created suffering . |
| 15 | The attacker could have been either Orlick , or the stranger who had shown me the file . |
| 16 | Regretfully , the young gentleman told him that he had quoted me the price to the trade , and for a retail sale it would be slightly more expensive , i.e. £36 plus VAT . |