Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then first one , then another and finally eight cabbies all wandered over to see what the fuss was . |
| 2 | If you want our marriage to have any chance of success you 'd better give her the sack first thing on Monday morning ! ’ |
| 3 | Yes , and you see Mr came in to show her the hoover and she was n't here was she ? . |
| 4 | ‘ Celia came up to pay me the rent , mid-morning that 'd be . |
| 5 | She then came back to tell me the customer did n't like green so would n't be having the soup . |
| 6 | ‘ The MP came out to see what the scare was . |
| 7 | She 'd even given them the evidence herself . |
| 8 | He 'd never allowed anyone the opportunity . |
| 9 | Except she was saying that you 'd actually offered her the job . ’ |
| 10 | For answer , the Robemaker lifted his arms out so that the great black cloak fanned out giving him the outline of a massive bat or a creature of prey . |
| 11 | I popped in to see what the form was , and to find out if I 'd been fired as a house-sitter . |
| 12 | Chatterton unbent enough to ask me the question . |
| 13 | I needed it because when I finally disentangled myself from Zaria 's legs ( another advantage noted : no claws ) , I padded over to see what the noise was . |
| 14 | I just looked down to see what the time was , I just looked up |
| 15 | Curious , she went over to see what the paper said . |
| 16 | When I went up to investigate it the floor caved in beneath me and I fell into the middle of all those nasty plants . ’ |
| 17 | But he did not give her the opportunity . |
| 18 | And since she shared Humber 's and my attitude to our job , she did not give me the kind of pep-talk Aline would have come up with in these circumstances . |
| 19 | He did not give me the money for either . |
| 20 | ‘ He did not give me the poem , ’ Benjamin replied . |
| 21 | Christopher Pitchford , QC , prosecuting , told the jury : ‘ Whatever their feelings were on the home of an elderly woman being broken into by a gang of drug-crazed teenagers , it did not give anyone the excuse to take the law into their own hands . ’ |
| 22 | The court held that this did not give it the power to operate a commercial laundry . |
| 23 | Yet this did not bring us the surrender we hoped for . |
| 24 | The Act did not specify what the rate was to be , but it was made clear that the initial rate of 40 per cent would be increased to 45 per cent and then to 50 per cent ‘ at reasonably short intervals ’ . |
| 25 | She did not tell him the price or the amount of shares involved , but did say that an announcement would soon be made . |
| 26 | He took his wife with him , but he was n't sure that she would keep his secret , so he did not tell her the truth . |
| 27 | ‘ The early try did not cost us the game , but the late penalty certainly did lose it for us . ’ |
| 28 | It did not matter what the man looked like , but he should be listened to . |
| 29 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 30 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |