Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the 1950s and 1960s I served my apprenticeship watching what the good caddies did — old Tip Anderson , Tip 's dad , and Little Mac , Dai Rees ' caddie . |
| 2 | So there 's my grandma telling me the difference between a girl and a boy . |
| 3 | Can someone post email me the lineup against Liverpool ? |
| 4 | My husband gave me the news that my father had died back in the village . |
| 5 | My grandson asked me the other morning , when was I gon na die ? |
| 6 | As to Maurice , my godmother gave me the money to buy a bit of property when I left Southport . |
| 7 | My father sent me the cheque , needless to say , so David and I thought we 'd better get married because that was the reason he sent the cheque . |
| 8 | ‘ My father taught me the value of manners and being a gentleman . |
| 9 | If I do n't persuade my father to sell you the club , you 'll manufacture enough fake information to make the police suspicious enough to close me down ? ’ |
| 10 | Antique furniture , yes , erm , because I 'd bought that during the war in various antique places , you know , and erm , what did we buy , no I think my father gave us the bedroom furniture was , which was at the |
| 11 | If Somerset should opt once more for a batsman , my instinct tells me the favourite would be Richie Richardson . |
| 12 | I was short of a few quid to do anything about it so my mate lent me the money , we went to a scrap yard , picked up a spare and he delivered me back here in his motor , then your chaps picked me up . ’ |
| 13 | THE next leg of my journey takes me the short drive to Regensburg and from there I follow a minor road to Cham , last stop before the German-Czech border post . |
| 14 | These days this happens when you check in and of course I was asked to open my suitcase to show them the contents . |
| 15 | I almost feel it 's my duty to show you the error of your ways . |
| 16 | My dad gave him the sort of look that only someone declared clinically dead can manage . |
| 17 | Policemen of my generation call them the funnies . ’ |
| 18 | Thanks to the wonderful invention of fax machines , which enable my office to send me the proofs and layouts to read and check , I was able to slip away to Forest Mere Health Hydro for six days . |
| 19 | ‘ The fact that you are here in my office gives me the right to ask questions and demand answers , and you 're going to tell me what I want to know , Lissa . ’ |
| 20 | Erm , my mother calls me the eternal student because I tell her that there 's absolutely no way I 'm gon na look for full time employment ! |
| 21 | ‘ When my mother left him the topaz , Vitor vowed he would save it until he met his soulmate , ’ the older woman explained . |
| 22 | My mother gave you the calm . |
| 23 | Her trembling gave him the impression of her own passion being fuelled , which in its turn led him on to further , and deeper caresses . |
| 24 | A glance at her watch gave her the perfect excuse to leave immediately … |
| 25 | Its complexity makes it the rock upon which the left realist argument has foundered . |
| 26 | She exposed the soles of her feet at the mouth of the oven … she drank gall and rubbed her eyes therewith … in her ardent desire for suffering she made herself a silver circlet in which she fixed three rows of sharp points in honour of the thirty-three years that the Son of God lived upon earth … she wore it underneath her veil to make it the more painful as these points being unequally long did not all pierce at the same time … so that with the least agitation these iron thorns tore her flesh in ninety-nine places … |
| 27 | Her entry gave me the chance to ignore Ernest and present her with Victor 's note myself , which I did . |
| 28 | Jacqui gurgled something incomprehensible , as Kattina 's tongue shot into her mouth to save her the embarrassment of replying . |
| 29 | Their reply gave us the number of the aircraft which Thomas was flying , Beaufort I L4508 , and the names of the other members of his crew . |
| 30 | They not only make an income from their paintings , and the cards from them , but their work gives them the challenge to succeed despite handicap . |