Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to talk to you the night before last , but — ’ |
| 2 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 3 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
| 4 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 5 | ‘ I began to yearn for you the moment you left , ’ he told her in return . |
| 6 | She 's just , that 's just pulling their mind you I did say to her the last straw was Christmas day , can you imagine like , I mean me and him did n't have to , I did n't have to stay in and cook dinner , I done it cos she was there we 'd all be together , she did n't fucking come home . |
| 7 | I 'd come out on the simple camera-fetching errand without the complete zipped pouch of gadgets but I did have with me the belt holding my knife and the multi-purpose survival tool , and on the back of that tool there was a mirror . |
| 8 | at two o'clock on Saturdays and whizzes round the town doing wheelies round the town so I said to him last night Scott sit down I want you to read something , I said take a good look at the paper , I said it could 've been you , doing that , you think you 're so fucking clever and big running round the town , I said it only takes you to lose control go up the bloody curb and bang , that 's what happened , I said think about what the hell you 're doing |
| 9 | Yeah , one look at him and even I had to say to myself the ladies , the poor ladies . |
| 10 | Yeah he do n't eat too many he likes he like they but he wo n't erm I had to say to him the other night . |
| 11 | During the interviews I tried to probe whether what was meant was the ageing of the population , a change of atmosphere , the community 's material demise or what ; but on occasion I had to guess at what the informant really meant . |
| 12 | In Freudian terms , I had taken upon myself the typically female neurosis of hysteria along with the typically male one of obsessiveness . |
| 13 | The personal engagement encapsulated here is not , after all , wholly different from the introduction to that much more objective modern study , the justly acclaimed biography of Mary by Lady Antonia Fraser ; for Lady Antonia describes how ‘ being possessed since childhood by a passion for the subject of Mary Queen of Scots , I wished to test for myself the truth or falsehood of the many legends which surround her ’ . |
| 14 | I wanted to lay on him the burden of our fractured present . |
| 15 | One wonders whether this can be the same nation which had gained for itself the reputation of being a stolid , pipe-sucking manhood , unmoved by panic or excitement , and reliable in the tightest of places . |
| 16 | The chief executive of Newcrest Mining , the joint-venture partner which had planned to mine the site , denounced Hawke 's decision as a dangerous precedent . |
| 17 | On Aug. 21 a meeting between Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi and US officials resolved tensions which had arisen over what the Kenyan authorities had perceived as the lack of proper consultation about the US operation , involving as it did US military aircraft overflying Kenyan airspace and the arrival of up to 300 US military personnel . |
| 18 | This was her first big opportunity to reply to the barrage of criticism and , as she saw it , ingratitude which had marred for her the celebration last May of her 10 years in office . |
| 19 | She 'd explained to me the origin of the Paisley pattern ; I had the history of Notting Hill Gate , the use of a camera obscura by Vermeer , why Charles Lamb 's sister murdered their mother , and a history of Tamla Motown . |
| 20 | She was surprised by the extent of Sue 's gratitude , when she came looking for them the following evening . |
| 21 | After his return he was sent for by the Mamluk sultan who wished to learn from him the state of affairs in Rum ; and he entered Cairo on either 4 Safar 823/19 February 1420 ( Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi ) or Tuesday 4 Rabi'I 823/Tuesday 19 March 1420 ( al-Makrizi . |
| 22 | She had seen for herself the effect he had on many of his clients ; had herself been impressed by his ability to amuse them with his quick wit and entertaining anecdotes . |
| 23 | She said she had spoken to her the previous day and she had seemed normal . |
| 24 | She had chosen for herself the human equivalent of sackcloth and ashes , and she denounced herself for a masochist . |
| 25 | It seemed to him now , that she had planted inside him the dark seed of failure : that from it , everything else had flowered , his inability to keep a job , his uselessness , his drinking , his failed marriage . |
| 26 | In fact , the more she had thought about it the more convinced she had become . |
| 27 | However Sharda had a close friend who was West Indian and she had discussed with her the reasons why Asian girls were so frequently attacked and bullied : |
| 28 | Then the more we got to know about it the more I had to laugh . |
| 29 | I 'm not saying we all had it together but you say you can er say that about four of 'em would then as that as that they got rid of it the other the others 'd get it you know eventually and th we 'd all have it in the end . |
| 30 | Er and I think perhaps teaching I do n't know whether it 's different today but they seemed to instil in us the love of , of poetry and the , the love of literature and that sort of thing . |