Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did they see him the day after that . |
| 2 | St Ives said it was a mercy he had n't after all approached Meredith and asked him to give her the push . |
| 3 | One of the Germans stationed in the house got suspicious of Antoinette hanging about near the cellar door and made her give him the key and go down there with him so he could see what she was hiding . |
| 4 | We cut out a Fife man and made him tell us the plan for the men they dropped on the Forth . |
| 5 | John Urry and I then broadened it and transformed it to make it the cornerstone of our chapter on postmodernism in The End of Organized Capitalism , especially by locating it within a framework of a book which is essentially a comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies . |
| 6 | The twinkle in his eye was reassuring , but when we tied up at Tobermory and the purser pointed out to sea where a group of small rocks ( or so it seemed ) showed strung out on the horizon like a mother duck with her ducklings after her , I felt a cowardly twinge , and found myself wondering what the ‘ relatively mod cons ’ could be . |
| 7 | On Joe 's previous leave he had noticed how quiet and unhappy she seemed , and persuaded her to tell him the reason . |
| 8 | ‘ And did they show you the animal cemetery when you were a child ? ’ |
| 9 | And had she told them the reason that was at the back of the suggestion , they would not have believed that either . |
| 10 | The American admitted sleeping with the woman , but denied he gave her the killer disease . |