Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.

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1 Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes .
2 ‘ She would n't tell me , but was very insistent that I call her the minute you got in . ’
3 Good grief it must cost them a fortune to erm you know , pay for all these then , so they give you the Walkman to , while you 're doing this and they give you the batteries , tt
4 ‘ He was very candid and he gave me the benefit of his thinking about a lot of things , ’ Clinton told reporters after leaving the White House .
5 The elements of the curriculum considered essential by LEAs were varied and some were reluctant to make any statement on this because they felt it the job of schools .
6 For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony .
7 He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there .
8 How would you , if you had to do that if you do it the easy way , do n't do it the hard way , how would you do that ?
9 If it 's s something like that and they tell me the amount of furniture and if two thirds of the van will be filled with big stuff , and then they tell me there 'll be half a dozen boxes , I assume there 'll be at least four times that number of boxes , and if it 's still going to go on , we 'll do it .
10 And make sure that you give it the way they want .
11 Their reaction was so encouraging that it gave me the strength to carry on .
12 Erm this has been prepared by Mr erm and perhaps it would be helpful if he gave you the flavour of it .
13 As long as you teach them the basics , they should be all right .
14 The sort of stuff that you get in in y'know sort of everyday gossip between friends about y'know when people talk about each- other , oh I think he 's a bit er I think he 's a bit camp , or I think he probably is but erm yeah yeah all that kind of thing yeah erm is is like the the informal repertoire , the informal repertoire that you do between friends erm , between people to whom it sort of y'know it 's not very important if you give them the wrong impression sort of thing .
15 If he did tell me anything it would be a pack of lies , because obviously the secret would n't be a secret any more if he told me the truth , and he can feel , as I do , that with my increasing maturity he needs all the holds over me he can get ; I 'm not a child any more .
16 That 's a bit extreme but it gives you the idea .
17 He did not feel happy when they told him the result .
18 She went to see Mr Bailey , the manager of the factory , and she was surprised and happy when he gave her the job immediately .
19 ‘ You know what men are like — swearing that their casual lovers are of no account , yet going berserk when we tell them the same thing ! ’
20 And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is .
21 I was shocked when he told me the truth .
22 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 .
23 Is that longer than you have it the window there .
24 No she bought a second lo a second twenty lot of twenty and I give her the first lot back probably .
25 Well the flowering house plants , we hope you 're going to be given for Christmas , things like cyclamen and indoor azaleas and also your indoor bowls of course will last much longer if you give them the coolest , lightest position you can .
26 ‘ The first 20 minutes will be critical and , the way he kicks , Botha could beat us on his own if we give him the chances , ’ said Carling , whose assessment was backed by pack leader Brian Moore .
27 Try sitting the other side of your desk ; it may sound crazy but it shows you the world from another angle .
28 ‘ I know what you mean , ’ she murmured , willing her hands to remain steady as she handed him the cup .
29 It 's harder when you do it the first thing .
30 If my deception worked , she 'd still think she was attached to the creance and fly straight to me as usual when I showed her the chick .
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