Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 2 | And I said I said so I told her the registration and she gave me the room number but she said . |
| 3 | ‘ I hit the fish and stright away though it was a good one , but my son Tony has never caught a pike so I handed him the rod , ’ said Lee . |
| 4 | So I allowed him the honour of endorsing my change of name . |
| 5 | And yet there was a part of her which longed to get to the bottom of this complex man , an instinct perhaps which told her the quest would be a worthwhile one . |
| 6 | And apparently she phoned her the other night at half past twelve and said can you come and pick me up ? said no . |
| 7 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 8 | We could really make this place swing if only they gave us the data to work on , could n't we ? ’ |
| 9 | And lastly he showed them the stars and the clouds and the moon and all the winds of heaven . |
| 10 | When Nicklaus did finally track me down he told me the bag was still mine if I wanted it , but I told him I 'd already committed myself , so I gave up the chance . |
| 11 | So he swallowed her small cries , but in the end it was not the safeguard she had sought , because in doing so he fed her the taste of himself once more and left a hunger in her which she sensed would last a long , long time , if not an eternity . |
| 12 | so he offered me the moon to get me |
| 13 | So he bought I the watch . |
| 14 | His pal his workmate was retired and a few months after , Arthur died , so it left me the one and the owners of the property , they give me notice to quit and no messing about er and when I talked to them , they give me twelve months , rate free , to erm get out . |
| 15 | I could see that he was rather cross with me , and soon he told me the reason . |
| 16 | And the longer he held her the weaker she felt . |
| 17 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 18 | Yesterday I fed him the bony scraps from my reindeer stew and he is now mine for ever . |
| 19 | The more she praised me the quicker the needles clicked . |
| 20 | er er you were going , you were going well with the , the pension you , you wanted him and your diagram was good and he was going for it but directly you showed him the diagram then you started on about this er |
| 21 | And then when he 'd won he offered Heseltine the had of friendship and promptly he gave him the Poll Tax , which will finish him for ever . |
| 22 | The constant streams of traffic flowing past it gave it the appearance of an ocean liner in a sea full of tiny fish . |
| 23 | Now it offered her the chance to get away from him for ever … |
| 24 | well I sent you the report did n't I ? |
| 25 | Well I sent you the the initial report just to show you what |
| 26 | Mid-level Immediately I told him the truth about it , ( he relented . ) |
| 27 | Well you bought me the new vacuum cleaner . |
| 28 | Mm well you gave them the size and you checked the size . |
| 29 | Well you did it the other day but then you did n't have a teddy in your hand did you ? |
| 30 | Well I was supposed to be but erm every single time they arrange it and they either tell me the wrong da well they told me the wrong day last week cos , they told me Tuesd they told me it was Thursday when it , when it was actually Tuesday when I was getting pissed at Scott 's house so erm it was too late by then . |