Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He voiced such questions reverently , righteously , but voiced them none the less . |
| 2 | She asked me what the time was . |
| 3 | On one U-day last winter , a short-sighted neighbour asked me what the pretty flowers were . |
| 4 | I met the then Chairman of the AAA , Bill Ferguson , who asked me what the problem was all about . |
| 5 | My mum come up to see me and asked me what the bandage was for and I told her I 'd burnt myself . |
| 6 | But if someone asked me what the " oldest tree in the park " meant , or what " oak " meant , or what the meaning of the sentence as a whole was , I would have to explain to him the meaning of these expressions with the help of some other expressions which he could understand . |
| 7 | Mass attendance , erm , mentioned the hospital , he asked me what the hospital was like you know , whether it was acute or , or whatever erm |
| 8 | I think this was the day you asked me what the quality of life was . |
| 9 | He asked me who the young man with the dark curly hair was , and I told him . |
| 10 | And , it was the attitude of the other men going to a , play another school , I came across this man who asked me who the referee was on that particular day ? |
| 11 | I think I stopped when I once asked someone what the matter was and he said : ‘ If you do n't know , then you ca n't love me . ’ |
| 12 | He visited her none the less , although Jules had no doubt that it was duty rather than love that prompted his assiduous attention . |
| 13 | Certainly we just told them what the problem was , told them that there was ever such a nice quarry further down the road if they wanted to visit a slate quarry . |
| 14 | But , in fact , as I pointed out the minute you told me what the letters said , there was n't one line there to connect them with Chambers . |
| 15 | ‘ I remembered , ’ said Wexford , ‘ as soon as Cullam told me whose the body was . |
| 16 | I 'll swear the boy was alone , he told me himself the enterprise was his own . |
| 17 | If I told you what the wine cost , you would n't dare drink it . ’ |
| 18 | Well it told you what the subject titles were . |
| 19 | He was overjoyed when Alan showed him his plans , and told him what the different symbols meant , so that the lines on the paper became a living world of houses , roads and trees . |
| 20 | She told him what the old lady had said . |
| 21 | ‘ It was rather touching that when I told him who the other members of the cast were — Ian Richardson , Zena Walker and Freddie Jones — he said : ‘ Do they know who it is who 's playing the character ? ’ |
| 22 | She apparently threatened to leave him unless he told her who the person was . |
| 23 | And one day she had this other map , and I do n't know where she got that either , or what happened to it She only showed it me the once , and after that whenever I mentioned it she did n't know what I was talking about It was made of something absolutely rigid but incredibly thin . |
| 24 | Yeah eight o'clock Wednesday night she showed it us the map . |
| 25 | The nurse who brought him home said the sister baptized him herself the very night he was born . |
| 26 | My mother forwarded it me the day she received it . |
| 27 | That seemed all right , but over dinner Alison began to act oddly — as if she was enjoying herself — so I scowled at her and asked her what the problem was . |
| 28 | She did n't want to go back to the lies Kate told whenever she asked her what the matter was , to the telephone ringing and the queer , high-pitched voice insisting it was the box-office of the Essoldo Cinema . |
| 29 | When Diana once asked him what the capital of Australia was , he was rendered totally speechless . |
| 30 | A commotion ensued when Stirling loudly asked him what the hell was going on , and the alerted Italians began shouting . |