Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
| 2 | Ordering fresh coffee from the waitress who came to take my order , he passed me the Guardian and picked up the Sun . |
| 3 | In 1238 Alexander III 's father promised me the crown but then he married again and begat Alexander , the third of that name , and the up was dashed from my lips . |
| 4 | When thou gavest them the rod and |
| 5 | They dogged him the length and breadth of the country , wherever the small troupe of players appeared . |
| 6 | We told them the truth and as usual when a panic was over they apologized but warned that we must be patient . |
| 7 | They must be independent , not mention in the will you ca n't have a beneficiary who 's a witness , you ca n't have a husband or wife of a beneficiary as a witness either because not I 'm told very first clause there are n't , to get a duplicate made bungalow or something like that he might be missing out on the bungalow and the was The course leader at the time told me the story that saw him and he would n't tell me who it was I want my ten percent commission . |
| 8 | When Gibson and I left the office , Guy turned on me and bluntly told me the fate that would overtake me were I to steal one of his crews . |
| 9 | So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually . |
| 10 | He said he told him the story and he said if you could just get back to Greentoft , he says , I would give you the best two cattle out of my byre . |
| 11 | I told him the price when he ordered them |
| 12 | I told him the love and character evident in that sofa was worth at least £50 . |
| 13 | We never run out of conversation , although it knocked the wind out of his sails when I told him the news and he suggested I contact a faith-healer friend of his . |
| 14 | I always wrote the replies and told him the news and reassured him that Mum was watching his widow , which it gave her great pleasure to do . |
| 15 | Spicer told him the news and asked him if he would like a local caddie to be booked . |
| 16 | When he went home to his parents ' house in Ealing or to the Barbican , his grandmother drove him the mile and a half to Rickmansworth station , which is up on the northern end of the Metropolitan Line . |
| 17 | His Questions au soleil levant received the Grand Prix de Poesie de l'Academie Francaise , but although it awarded him medals , the Academy never granted him the membership that was his life 's ambition . |
| 18 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 19 | And I said I said so I told her the registration and she gave me the room number but she said . |
| 20 | Chris told us the story or how the man and the woman fed from this tree and , when they were away , to get at the food others chopped it down and the trunk became the Amazon , the branches its tributaries . |
| 21 | Clive Rice threw me the ball and just said : ‘ Right , get on with it ’ . |
| 22 | He handed me the tankard and said , ‘ I wo n't be a minute . ’ |
| 23 | He handed me the cheque and looked at his watch . |
| 24 | I do n't believe she heard me because she yawned , handed me the key and told me to hang it round my neck so that no one could take it from me . |
| 25 | She was really odd , she showed me the way but she kept saying she would n't come in because she was n't allowed to set foot in there . ’ |
| 26 | And he just stuck the needle in his arm , and he said , ‘ Well , I think the baby 's a mongol ’ , and he showed me the door and that was it . |
| 27 | er then he showed me the alarm and the he sho right he 's got file of everybody ai n't got one of us though . |
| 28 | They wrote , they wrote back and Carole showed me the letter and said that this is n't this is |
| 29 | " Of course , " he said , " of Course , " and he even showed her the corridor that led to the Ladies ' room , and she escaped , and they escaped from each other . |
| 30 | Back into the cottage he showed her the way and gave her so |