Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him to describe what the atmosphere in the dressing room is like with the rest of the team . |
| 2 | I guessed where she had been , but I made her tell me the whole story . |
| 3 | In the end I got them to give me the first aid outfit and fixed myself up . |
| 4 | I got them to give me the number for the cleaners ' mess-room and asked there . |
| 5 | I got I told you the about a different bana . |
| 6 | When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure : |
| 7 | If the racket came right I felt it gave him the confidence to go for the shots . |
| 8 | ‘ I persuaded him to sell me the rights to manufacture the Seven and I took over everything except the Lotus name . ’ |
| 9 | The first morning we met you asked me to show you the way to the matriculation class , putting a very strong stress on the first syllable . |
| 10 | She asked him to teach her the trick , but he said that she was not ready yet . |
| 11 | Juliet was remembering Celia 's frightened voice as she asked her to tell her the blood results before anyone else . |
| 12 | She had spent a sleepless night agonising over what had happened between herself and David and she found herself dreading what the atmosphere would be like between them . |
| 13 | It had been a slip on Doreen 's part , Lucy recalled as she found herself wondering what the situation had been with Clive . |
| 14 | He helped her to make the house ready for the next occupant , and though she protested he gave her the money for her railway journey back to London . |
| 15 | When , inevitably , we were asked to do it again , we altered it to make it the third article after the four-legged item and kept varying first and third . |
| 16 | When they divorced he gave her the house in a clean break settlement and paid twenty pounds a week maintenanace . |
| 17 | But this was just a dentist 's waiting room and it made him wonder what the rest of the house would be like . |
| 18 | I pointed out that his voice had certainly ceased to be soprano , but he pestered me to teach him the solo for the next eisteddfod . |
| 19 | Having reached his destination , he remembered the message that he had been asked to give to his hostess : ‘ I travelled down with an uncle of yours and he told me to give you the following message , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |
| 21 | He thought he knew who the tall young man might be . |
| 22 | At least he knew I told him the truth . |
| 23 | In that last summer before he died I read him the whole of Proust … |
| 24 | Eventually he persuaded me to give him the name and address of my parents . |
| 25 | No , it took she gave me the Times . |
| 26 | He rose , paced about the little room , stared at the oak bureau , remembered it in his old room , in the nursery ; it had come here with Matey — he remembered her showing him the secret drawer it held , quite capacious , and unthinkingly worked the mechanism which opened it — |
| 27 | He remembered her ripping it the day she 'd taken him to see the hens for the first time . |
| 28 | What I liked about it was that though it was biting sarcasm , the way he spoke it gave you the impression not of a man who was bitter in any way , but of a man who pitied the members of the government for being so rotten and pitied us for being governed by such scum . |
| 29 | this is going back must be a few years , we were laughing and figuring sort of , you know , this bloke back of the garage in the end he said we give him the bill and said yeah you can soon run out |
| 30 | He said he told him the story and he said if you could just get back to Greentoft , he says , I would give you the best two cattle out of my byre . |