Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Germany , in July 1932 , the Nazi party won 230 seats in the Reichstag , which made them the majority party , although Adolph Hitler was not able to become the Chancellor until January 1933 . |
| 2 | Which made me the family oddity . ’ |
| 3 | Later , when other countries wanted to make their own cloth from jute , the workers of Dundee made and sold them the textile machinery . |
| 4 | After a short time the Duke of Grafton sold them the Rope Walk , a building where the old village craft had been carried out and where Ted Smith 's coach garage is now , and so they moved . |
| 5 | ‘ The first time Jimmy Patino , who represented family interests on the board , came to a meeting , he read me the riot act about how of every £1 I was talking about , 51p was owned by the family , and of that 51p , 25p of it was his . |
| 6 | But a few years ago , when they promised us the summer heat would last for months , she had it cut short . |
| 7 | Mrs Bottomley told them the health service had to move with the times and some closures were inevitable . |
| 8 | Check all the spellings , and I told you the horror story about the gentleman whose name was wrongly spelt . |
| 9 | Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working . |
| 10 | He showed Mr Utterson the broken stick and told him the servant girl 's story . |
| 11 | I told him the credit authority number . |
| 12 | He showed no surprise when Blanche told him the number plate of the car was false , and Nowak emphasised he did not want the police to press charges if the driver was found . |
| 13 | So something happened there at that house , we told 'em the house number , where the lamp 's situated , we gave 'em all the information they they need but we still ca n't get any response . |
| 14 | Er , now , I asked you the table set have n't I ? |
| 15 | How Alan kept his temper I will never know , but he quietly sorted out the mess , mounted a huge Loch Ordie , rowed out from the shore again and handed me the fly rod : ‘ Here , Bruce , you fish , I 'll work the dap and mind the oars . ’ |
| 16 | He showed me the zodiac panelling , and Lucia 's secret hiding-place . |
| 17 | There was only one good bit in the film — when they showed you the lit–de bastard pissing up a wall . |
| 18 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 19 | Pink took her to the garden and showed her the rose arch . |
| 20 | Schellenberg handed him the Führer Directive . |
| 21 | The advice sounded incomprehensible to her but when he handed her the phone receiver back , the car man said , ‘ OK , I 've got that . |
| 22 | When her mistress was dressed , Tempy handed her the riding hat which completed the outfit . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , I am so sorry , ’ Kathleen handed her the caster sugar . |
| 24 | Anthony came up to her , handed her the spruce crimson silk handkerchief from his breast pocket and touched her hair , awkwardly . |
| 25 | Rune handed her the wine list . |
| 26 | Mrs Scamp levered them on to her face and I handed her the Access card . |
| 27 | He gave him a document and showed him the photocopying room . |
| 28 | He showed him the mess library and the official telephone , then discreetly vanished . |
| 29 | and I showed him the escape hatch in the cockpit , " open this hatch and get out and get as far away from the aircraft as you can " . |
| 30 | He then showed us the brass plate of ‘ No. 1 ’ , still attached to the piece of cab as Selwyn Higgins cut it off . |