Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chatterton unbent enough to ask me the question . |
| 2 | Pertwee had already employed it the previous morning effectively to terminate interrogation . |
| 3 | Yes , and you see Mr came in to show her the hoover and she was n't here was she ? . |
| 4 | Chatterton pulled their legs slightly and said they had better be careful not to get on the wrong side of you again and Glastonbury did n't know what the hell anyone was talking about . |
| 5 | Stephen did n't know who the boy was or what he was doing on Big Allen and he did n't speak to him . |
| 6 | She gazed , wide-eyed , at the first large town she had ever visited , for Matilda had not permitted her the freedom of Gloucester . |
| 7 | Rupert had not specified what the ‘ friends ’ consisted of , so nobody could have known about the anthropological colleague and his wife and their children aged seven , five , and three , or pictured Rupert going to church alone on Christmas morning , helping to wash up after the adequate but plain Christmas dinner , spending the evening talking shop , and retiring early to his hard uncomfortable bed . |
| 8 | Stephen had just granted me the barony , and I decided ‘ t was time I had a wife . |
| 9 | The local ombudsman found Lancashire SSD had not given her the support and counselling she needed . |
| 10 | ‘ Celia came up to pay me the rent , mid-morning that 'd be . |
| 11 | Theory 1 — Many in the West felt that the presence of police governments in the West did not represent what the people of Europe had fought for — they had been fighting for freedom of speech and democracy and the communist presence meant they had failed . |
| 12 | Baxter 's influential friends had secured for him four of the ablest barristers in the land , but it was obvious from the beginning of the trial that Jeffries had already decided what the verdict would be . |
| 13 | One or two ugly scenes had occurred between him and Paul Danquah and though they remained friends Minton did not offer him the use of the self-contained flat at the back of the ground floor in his new home . |
| 14 | She said : ‘ Claire did not show me the power of attorney … nor did she tell me that I had been made Michael 's attorney . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ George did n't mind what the fence was made of as long as he did n't have to pay for it ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | she had guessed Taczek had not told her the whole truth of his relationship with Mills but now had confirmation . |
| 18 | Rosemary had once told her the amount she was paying in rent . |