Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made them put it in the garden shed . ’ |
| 2 | Now why , what made them take it to the stage |
| 3 | ‘ She asked me to give it to the lady who had been in court with her child , and to ask if you would take care of her till she could come for her . ’ |
| 4 | As one who was so instrumental in mapping out the future promise of early Smiths , his quote ‘ If you asked me to write something about The Smiths now it would probably be critical ’ , remained interesting . |
| 5 | Then he asked me to kiss him on the lips and we kissed . |
| 6 | Two explosions in quick succession made me throw myself to the ground . |
| 7 | I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head . |
| 8 | She liked flowers , liked even more the thought behind them , but Gaily only remembered when he caught them staring him in the face — or in the feet , as now . |
| 9 | Apart from that , there 's a certain justification for the MC4 clasping the live album nettle — given that it was their constant , sometimes belligerent belief in gigging that helped them establish themselves in the first place . |
| 10 | He had a feeling that Maidstone mentioned them to vindicate himself in the eyes of others . |
| 11 | He started typing and found himself enjoying it for the first time for years . |
| 12 | ‘ And it was as a result of these conversations that he invited you to join him on the dahabeeyah ? ’ |
| 13 | She found herself telling him about the Vermeer she had been painstakingly copying , and then with a shudder of its destruction . |
| 14 | Rachel found herself following him into the social club and a few minutes later when they were both seated with their drinks in the same window-seat where they had sat before she said , ‘ So what 's your connection with Conway House ? ’ |
| 15 | Maggie was still not in any condition to argue and she found herself following him to the dark little bar , almost running a gauntlet of greetings from the men standing around . |
| 16 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 17 | It never was when she invited him to meet her at the flat ; she was keeping him and Stock out of each other 's way . |
| 18 | She had scarcely recovered her composure from that frantic evening before he invited her to join him on the royal yacht Britannia during Cowes Week . |
| 19 | I caught him watching me in the third . |
| 20 | Leonora whirled round , flushing as she found him watching her from the doorway . |
| 21 | I found him cursing her for the border . |
| 22 | The sheer beauty of their surroundings helped her to distance herself from the unsettling vibrations between them . |
| 23 | Without communicating criticism , David was able to convey to Julia something which helped her to see herself through the eyes of others . |
| 24 | She let him accompany her into the small lounge where the set was kept in segregation from the vocal and gregarious fishermen , and settle her in a comfortable chair , cheek by jowl with a single elderly lady , who seemed pleased to have company , and disposed to conversation . |
| 25 | It protested at once , so she let him carry her to the living-room . |
| 26 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |
| 27 | The good lady thought that he was shy , and constantly twitted him to bring him into the talk ; Paul hoped that she would get over it as the days passed , and this proved to be the case . |
| 28 | Others , however , felt a similar shudder at the thought of telling and discussing the political jokes about contemporary leaders of the modern Arab World and advised me to confine myself to the days of the Prophet and the early imams . |
| 29 | You told me to put it in the safe place . |
| 30 | ‘ It told me to meet him by the Princess Alice in Forest Gate , ’ he recalls . |