Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told her story to an officer she did not know and gave him the number of the Bristol callbox . |
| 2 | If he came to me now and knelt and handed me the poker , I could n't hit him . |
| 3 | It was the sound of voices shouting that woke me the next morning . |
| 4 | ‘ Trust yourself ’ she says and gave me the best gift in the universe , one hour of total relaxation . ’ |
| 5 | Diggs came and told us the day he broke out . ’ |
| 6 | They told me to stay there until they came and got me the following day — which I did n't . |
| 7 | He lifted and carried her the few necessary steps , until she felt the yielding softness of his bed beneath her back . |
| 8 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 9 | Later , when other countries wanted to make their own cloth from jute , the workers of Dundee made and sold them the textile machinery . |
| 10 | It was the midfield and attack that won us the league . |
| 11 | And actually , one day , because she knew it was my favourite , she said that I could have permission to have it copied and gave me the name of the jeweller , which I thought was so sweet . |
| 12 | It scared and disgusted her the way every male she met suddenly started ogling the blancmange under her blouse . |
| 13 | They went wild and made us promise to come back and give a display , so a few weeks later we returned and gave them the whole show . |
| 14 | My intervention , such as it was , became well known and earned me the enmity of two or three people whose awards had been either altered or struck out . |
| 15 | Clarissa loved dancing and found it the most exciting time of her life . |
| 16 | Five talented misfits from Camden form a band playing the most ridiculed form of music in the world , are picked up by the chief of the record label that brought you the Manic Street Preachers — and ZAP ! country is sincerely rehabilitated . |
| 17 | Well Julie went and got it the other day that 's why fetched her out , to get their presents . |
| 18 | He was a long distance lorry driver but he knew how to dress and taught me the golden rule ‘ Do n't mix your stripes ’ . ’ |
| 19 | Mister Johnny looked at Nick ; then he laughed and gave him the skull . |
| 20 | She wondered rather wildly for a moment if they would both refuse to let go and imagined herself the unwilling participant in an unlikely tug of war , but Bernard took one look at Alain and released her . |
| 21 | The Australians showed just one glimpse of the sort of electrifying back play that won them the World Cup so brilliantly just a year ago . |
| 22 | Only then was she aware of the telegraphist who sat beside her , who smiled and gave her the thumbs-up sign . |
| 23 | As he finished he smiled and handed me the empty plate . |
| 24 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |
| 25 | ‘ Be my guest , ’ Trent said and handed him the eight thousand dollars from his back pocket . |
| 26 | Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm . |