Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Somewhere and somehow she 'd given them the slip , shinned down the mat of Virginia creeper in the darkness and scuttled across the lawn to hide . |
2 | They were determined to confront the English Heritage inspector , but it soon became clear he 'd given them the slip . |
3 | But next to the Dance Hall if we 'd given them the licence to ha turn the cinema into a Dance Hall , there was this little old boy who lived just the other side of the road , in an old cottage , and he was over eighty . |
4 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
5 | It would n't have surprised me if you 'd given me the boot there and then . |
6 | Perhaps he thought that , and he 'd given me the slip . |
7 | ‘ 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 . |
8 | She was already dutiful and anxious to please him , and she looked so pretty in a dress of sprigged cotton he 'd given her the money to buy for the wedding . |
9 | Staring blankly at the rubble , all that remained of the cottage , she tried to remember the exact words Leo had used when he 'd given her the cheque . |
10 | Fortunately they 'd given her the job back at the shoe shop , and she and I had to spend only evenings and weekends together . |
11 | But it was after he 'd given her the ring that the cracks had begun to appear in her façade . |
12 | And she went away and produced that document after we 'd given her the brief . |
13 | He reminded her of the day he 'd given her the locket and ring . ’ |
14 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
15 | We 'd given you the activities to do there so you could find the output of them . |
16 | He 'd taught her the tricks of his trade until by her own account she was better at it than he was . |
17 | But they 'd seen him the moment he saw them , so he kept on walking towards them . |
18 | He 'd noticed it the night before . |
19 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
20 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |
21 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
22 | She 'd told him the nurse was coming to see her lawyers and make a statement at the end of that week . |
23 | Travis could n't have looked more sceptical if she 'd told him the world was flat after all . |
24 | If they did report a rape and they 'd told him the woman opposite , at the top last night er , next week come back . |
25 | ‘ If you 'd told me the truth about that years ago , none of this wretched business would have happened . ’ |
26 | He had n't given them the satisfaction of firing him there and then ; he 'd shown them the contempt he felt for them … let them suffer ! |
27 | Then she 'd shown him the book : a very rare volume indeed . |
28 | The day she 'd shown him the photograph … |
29 | The owner before Uncle Titch had been a retired seaman and he 'd renamed it the Turk 's Head , not after an Ottoman warrior , as most people thought , but after a special type of nautical knot that looked like a turban . |
30 | She had been right when she 'd called him the devil , because he was — but oh , how she wished she did n't find him so incredibly attractive . |