Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The influence of the ‘ parent ’ is very strong — parents tried to teach you the concepts of life . |
2 | When wicked women called Charlottes came to tempt them the hermits cast off all their clothes and rolled naked in the patch of nettles behind the pigsty . |
3 | He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed . |
4 | This did indeed occur , for when she went to embrace him the bodies of the lover and the beloved merged forever , becoming a double-sexed being — a youth with the breasts of a woman . |
5 | The photographer offered to sell him the negatives for £30 at the time but he did n't have the money . |
6 | ‘ There 's a message from Bill , ’ she said , then proceeded to give him the details . |
7 | He came and sat down beside me and offered to show me the sights . |
8 | The butcher , who was gentle and warmhearted in spite of the cruel bloodstains on his boater , loaded her basket free with bones for the dog and offered to show her the mysteries of his store room where , shaggy with frost , the sides of meat hung in refrigerated darkness . |
9 | An experienced armourer came into the hangar with a group of new armourers and proceeded to show them the wonders of the Washington . |
10 | I had to give them the keys . |
11 | THE world 's stock exchanges had a turbulent week as politics and economics conspired to give them the jitters . |
12 | A brilliant officer with more than twenty commendations , he had grown to believe he was omnipotent ; and when Mathews refused to tell him the names of his accomplices , saying it was more than his life was worth , Drury , obsessed with clearing up another case , offered him a deal : make a statement that three men whose names I will give you were your accomplices , testify against them in the witness-box , and in return no charges will be brought against you , and we 'll come to an arrangement about the reward money offered by the Post Office . |