Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I think you 'd better tell me the whole story , Charles . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I think I 'd better tell you the whole story right from the beginning . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd better leave me the matches , then . ’ |
| 4 | If you want our marriage to have any chance of success you 'd better give her the sack first thing on Monday morning ! ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She 'd even given them the evidence herself . |
| 8 | Except she was saying that you 'd actually offered her the job . ’ |
| 9 | Chatterton unbent enough to ask me the question . |
| 10 | He was n't er able to be so positive as that , but he did certainly give us the impression that er that he 'd listened very carefully to what we had to say . |
| 11 | Jacqui had only given him the Christian name . |
| 12 | ‘ If you had only given us the Law : Dayenu ! … |
| 13 | If Steen was there , Charles had only to tell him the truth ; if he was n't , then he could leave the photographs with an anonymous note explaining Jacqui 's innocence . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I think you had better tell me the whole story . |
| 15 | ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . ) |
| 16 | " You had better show me the sites , " Matthew said , " and I 'll see what I can suggest . " |
| 17 | The most prominent families had no objection to service — it had long offered them the surest route to power , wealth , and prestige . |
| 18 | Somebody had apparently given her the matchbook and she had been carrying it around with her ever since . ’ |
| 19 | Pertwee had already employed it the previous morning effectively to terminate interrogation . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A hush of skirts had already told her the girls were coming down from upstairs . |
| 25 | Stephen had just granted me the barony , and I decided ‘ t was time I had a wife . |
| 26 | He had just given her the chocolates and she had kissed him . |
| 27 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |
| 28 | I said just give me the file on it . |
| 29 | Brackenbury was kindly , and had always shown them the courtesy due to their rank — and himself as their ally . |
| 30 | 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 . |