Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only realised what the problem was when I went to Kenya straight after Twin Cities . |
| 2 | No I just told her the truth , I wanted wanted some of her |
| 3 | I just wondered what the Queen would say , let alone the duchess 's husband . ’ |
| 4 | Yes , erm very , very quickly , erm I notice that the swimming pool and river bathing visits had more than doubled , I just wondered what the cause of that was , and whether in fact it was mainly related to the swimming pools or to the river bathing bit erm places , and the second one is , regarding the noise , I notice that it has shot up , the number of visits to seven twenty one , but in fact , the prosecution 's only gone up to one , and I wondered if Mr Fenn could tell us whether in fact because of the higher profile that had been given to this erm activity , due to its possible cut , whether in fact more people are aware of it and there were more |
| 5 | Then I began to run into the guards , and every guard I saw , I did n't say anything , I just showed them the piece of paper which had written on it Hotel Intourist in Russian , and the phrase book . |
| 6 | ‘ I already told you the truth . ’ |
| 7 | When I was with the cattle I always wore my the cap on the side of my head . |
| 8 | Actually , I think I probably gave her the clay . ’ |
| 9 | I nearly called him the chairman of the Tory party — I apologise . |
| 10 | It tasted good , and before I quite realised it the glass was empty . |
| 11 | Hence I never knew who the culprit was and was never put into possession of the document or documents which existed and which would certainly have identified that person , since each copy of the minutes had , on my advice , been numbered . |
| 12 | I never twigged what the gold rush was . |
| 13 | The most important was the right to prevent any single investor from owning more than 15 per cent of the shares , which effectively gave them the right to veto a takeover bid . |
| 14 | Her arguments were ridiculed by Tobias Smollett [ q.v. ] ( a former pupil of Smellie 's ) in an essay in the Critical Review ( 1760 ) , which nevertheless paid her the compliment of insinuating that her husband must have written the book . |
| 15 | When running it had a very distinctive sound which quickly earned it the name of Put-put or Phut-phut . |
| 16 | ‘ And who unkindly told her the truth ? ’ |
| 17 | A host of examples can be cited throughout the period of Stewart rule up to 1542 ; the fate of the mighty earls of Douglas at the hands of James II in the mid fifteenth century , the case , enshrined in ballad , of the over-confident border reiver Johnnie Armstrong , who suddenly found himself the victim of the utter ruthlessness of James V , tell the same story about how royal power was exercised in Scotland . |
| 18 | It was too late not to finish the sentence and she already knew what the sentence meant anyway … ‘ not long for this world — on his way out — dying ’ … words which were impossible to say . |
| 19 | But it was n't Jozef who finally told me the truth — which of the three suspects had taken the pieces of silver . |
| 20 | it was , ten pound , she just gave me the envelope and , it was a printed |
| 21 | The only person who ever explained what the operation was for was the nurse at the hospital , or I would never have known . |
| 22 | When Topaz gave Lovat his answer she also told him the truth about her interlude with Andrew . |
| 23 | She proudly showed me the size 16 slacks she was wearing — eight weeks earlier she had been wearing size 22 ! |
| 24 | During her short career she ambitiously taught herself the principal and solo roles as well as the corps de ballet parts of the various ballets by careful attention during rehearsal and performance , and by assiduously watching even the works in which she did not appear ( such as Le Spectre de la Rose ) . |
| 25 | ‘ She would n't have shopped me ; and she never gave me the tape . |
| 26 | Agatha phoned the next day and said : ‘ You never told me the Queen had been . ’ |
| 27 | . So before I talk through some of those , cos I think that some of those er if we just gave you the handout you 've got ta read it training group seems to be far more aware of things like your body language . |
| 28 | It grew to be a sort of gang , and we always called them The Gang when we talked about them privately , Anna and I. I felt so sophisticated and intellectual talking about Rimbaud and Baudelaire at two in the morning , to handsome young men with scholarships to the Sorbonne . |
| 29 | I could make no further headway with the landlord so I made enquiries amongst the other customers : a beggar who whined for alms inside the doorway and a greasy-haired knave , but they only repeated what the landlord had said . |
| 30 | The issue was that the receivers had sufficient liquid assets to pay themselves and then terminate the receivership if they only paid themselves the amount of remuneration which B and L thought was due to them . |