Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , I do n't think I knew what the word ‘ erudite ’ meant until I met Kenneth . |
| 2 | Why do you think I why do you think I gave you the fucking job eh ? |
| 3 | I got I told you the about a different bana . |
| 4 | Her own family has suffered the anguish of repossession , and her personal story of how her local Liberal Democrat-controlled council helped them made her the winner in the school 's mock election . |
| 5 | The people who created it made themselves the masters of the Greek-speaking world within two centuries . |
| 6 | I expect he sent you the letter . |
| 7 | When they divorced he gave her the house in a clean break settlement and paid twenty pounds a week maintenanace . |
| 8 | One of the accusations used and levelled against er against Christianity against the , the evangelical message , against things like the , the mission of Graham and , and others is that it , it does n't meet the needs the , the material needs of people but if you deal with the persons spiritual needs , if their sins are forgiven , those problems that are causing the material problem , it 's amazing how there are dealt with as well , the best way to sober up a person , the best way to deal with a person who 's an alcoholic , the best way to deal with a person who is a drug addict , the best way to deal with a person who , who commits adultery is not by telling them the wrongs of those things , it 's not by trying to , to , to do , to , to , you know , to , to counsel them it 's presenting the gospel allowing Jesus Christ to come into their lives and to forgive them , that will make the person sober quicker than all the counselling in the world and Paul says I brought you the most important the fundamental thing , that Christ died for our sins Paul again when he 's writing to the Romans in chapter five and verse eight he says but God demonstrates his own love towards us , in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so God did in Jesus Christ what we could n't do for ourselves , so all of you have sin , so all of my sin , and he came and he died on the cross and as he was dying there was that transmit there , for he was n't dying for his own sin buy he was dying for your sin and for mine , it was all piled on him and so when we except what Christ has done , when we come to that place and yes I believe that you died for me , |
| 9 | Herein lay a paradox : the PSBC was ‘ patronage [ good ] , that is , supporting projects of merit and quality ’ , whereas ‘ paternalism ’ [ bad ] referred to institutions , such as the BBC , which believed they knew what the public needed . |
| 10 | So when he saw the 301 project it gave him the idea of using ultra-modern airframe and engine technology and aerodynamics to achieve the same magic numbers with a single turboprop instead of two kerosene-guzzling pure jets . |
| 11 | When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure : |
| 12 | You know I gave her the ultimatum like you can come with us but damn well I would n't have let her come . |
| 13 | Not to , I know we saw it the other night did n't we ? |
| 14 | He helped her to make the house ready for the next occupant , and though she protested he gave her the money for her railway journey back to London . |
| 15 | The rules and routines of the institution made her feel secure and offered her plentiful opportunities to do what gave her the most satisfaction , to comply . |
| 16 | ‘ You still believe I rejected you the first time , do n't you ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 18 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 19 | Meryl wrote to tell us of Lena 's general kindness , saying she found her the most helpful and patient person she knew . |
| 20 | I guess he taught me the right way , because after a couple of years , when I heard something , I knew what it was before any intellectual wheels were turning in my head . |
| 21 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 22 | In that last summer before he died I read him the whole of Proust … |
| 23 | At least he knew I told him the truth . |
| 24 | No , it took she gave me the Times . |
| 25 | If the racket came right I felt it gave him the confidence to go for the shots . |
| 26 | The battles in Russia , Africa and Normandy became mere words , to be heard punctually from the loudspeaker at three or four o'clock , from the English news-reader if German security was sufficiently relaxed , or from anybody who thought he knew what the next allotment of words was going to be about . |
| 27 | He thought he knew who the tall young man might be . |
| 28 | I mean he grasped what the word , he grasped the way she taught him and he soon learnt to read and he could retain those words |
| 29 | Later , when Frankie and Liza , my brother and sister , came in from playing I told them the sad news , but they did n't seem very upset . |
| 30 | Still I think she gave you the sign for we are going out . |