Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | And I got you the roses . ’ |
| 32 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
| 33 | I found it the greatest fun . |
| 34 | We have people sales people that are always discounting but er well when I say we the world has . |
| 35 | ‘ I promised her the best view of Florence from here , Mama , ’ he said over his shoulder as he wrestled with the catch . |
| 36 | ‘ I promised you the best assassin in England , Mr Estabrook , and he 's here . |
| 37 | ‘ If I approached it the way I usually work , I 'd agree . |
| 38 | Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was . |
| 39 | I sense it the moment we are inside the front door . |
| 40 | I told her the story . |
| 41 | I told her the story . |
| 42 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 43 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
| 44 | I told her the number straight off . |
| 45 | I told her the old lady was rich and that she had done the cottage up beautifully . |
| 46 | I told her the story . |
| 47 | That 's when I told her the rest . |
| 48 | I told her the answer was the Sun . |
| 49 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 50 | I told her the flat was in too disgusting a state for her to come and visit . |
| 51 | That 's life , on Vadinamia , as I said to Mala when I told her the news . |
| 52 | I told her the story about the wine , that 's all . |
| 53 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 54 | And I said I said so I told her the registration and she gave me the room number but she said . |
| 55 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 56 | ‘ When my friends asked me why I left the ministry , I told them the focus was too narrow . |
| 57 | Later , when Frankie and Liza , my brother and sister , came in from playing I told them the sad news , but they did n't seem very upset . |
| 58 | I told them the truth — he visits me , but he does n't live here . |
| 59 | I told them the arguments put forward by Visual Effects , only to be told in return manufacturing a conical base would have been much easier as it could all have been done from one two-part mould in half the time . ’ |
| 60 | That 's why I sa that 's why I told them the weekend I thought at least I 'll have something sha n't I ? |