Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the [noun sg] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wexford brought his beer and as he passed them the man got up as if to take his leave . |
| 2 | When it found him the mouth opened in a roar of triumph , lips pulling apart behind the vizor to reveal huge yellow teeth . |
| 3 | From the moment he entered it the wood seemed full of noises . |
| 4 | Any Romanian had learnt instinctively to expect the opposite of what the Party assured them the future had to offer . |
| 5 | Agatha phoned the next day and said : ‘ You never told me the Queen had been . ’ |
| 6 | This morning , as I cooked Crowe breakfast , he told me the story had ‘ national ’ written all over it . |
| 7 | Robson said yesterday : ‘ Bobby told me the atmosphere got to certain players last time . |
| 8 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ When they told me the body had been mutilated and burnt I did n't think it was Brian . |
| 10 | ‘ Poniatowski told me the Party decided that silence was best . |
| 11 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 12 | He fired again , and felt the lesser kick which told him the ball had only lodged half-way down the barrel . |
| 13 | The court heard evidence from a Nicholas Moody who said the next day Mrs Handy told him the machine had stopped working . |
| 14 | Residents then told him the sergeant had been seriously wounded , and they took custody of the suspect so the constable could help his colleague . |
| 15 | I told him the letter had been posted on to you and it was merely a matter of time before you got it . ’ |
| 16 | She felt the sudden weight on her legs which told her the cat had leapt up again . |
| 17 | ‘ But the driver told her the cost had risen by 1p the previous day . |
| 18 | Sheriff Paterson told her the charity had been devastated as a result of her actions . |
| 19 | That afternoon in free time the sergeant stopped her , and told her the work had n't been done properly . |
| 20 | The champagne corks popped but then the reporter told us the house had been repossessed . |
| 21 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |
| 22 | With a tenderness that surprised her the Frenchman put his arms around her and lifted her onto the cot beside him . |
| 23 | The working class was hardly more impressed by the Manifesto and in the weeks that followed it the government faced an unprecedented challenge to its authority , centred on St Petersburg and Moscow . |
| 24 | I sold him the car did n't I ? |
| 25 | When they saw me the laughter stopped . |
| 26 | well I sent you the report did n't I ? |
| 27 | But as she reached him the vision shimmered and disappeared and she was alone , stumbling as she tried to find her way through the shadows of a forest , mist cloaking the branches of the trees . |
| 28 | This figure was painted in the same syrupy pastel shades as the rest of the crucifix , but when Zen tapped it the head resounded not with the dull thud of plaster but with a light metallic ring |
| 29 | One result of this difference of reference is that it is possible to construct sentences which will be analytic or contradictory on the one interpretation but not on the other : ( 11 ) Nikolai offered us the message decoded but it was not decoded when he offered it to us 4.2 One curious feature about these adjectives is that they somehow seem to modify not only the noun which they accompany but simultaneously the verb as well ; if this is a genuine observation it will be surprising on general grounds , since it would be decidedly abnormal in syntax for one element to simultaneously qualify two different items . |
| 30 | By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing . |