Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strapped for cash , he hurried inside and bartered for sex by handing over the silver watch given him by his sick father . |
| 2 | Has he for instance consulted them with their rights under the Tenants Charter ? |
| 3 | They are just carrying out their life in accordance with the rules given them , as all ‘ people ’ including Chewong do . |
| 4 | The tenant should consider deleting both clauses 11.1 and 11.2 though for the reasons given they could perhaps be tolerated if necessary . |
| 5 | I agree with it and , for the reasons given him , I , too , would allow the appeal . |
| 6 | My Lords , for the reasons given I would however dismiss this appeal . |
| 7 | We might conceive of the aside as occupying a zone midway between the play and the audience ; we continue to experience the play , but we do so via the new information or attitudes given us by the character or characters speaking the asides . |
| 8 | The point was the Germans hated them and wanted to get rid of them . |
| 9 | As kids , loyal pals , as men now , they justify the respect and high esteem given them . |
| 10 | During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister . |
| 11 | There is a chief superintendent in RUC Headquarters whose sole responsibility is community relations , and no complaints were made about the level of managerial support given them by Easton 's senior officers , something unusual for ordinary policemen and women in the RUC , and particularly so compared to community policing sections in other forces ( Grimshaw and Jefferson 1987 ) . |
| 12 | Has n't Kelly explained it properly ? |
| 13 | Clubs punished him for taking unauthorised time off , missing training and breaking curfew . |
| 14 | Many Third World states regarded it as a blatantly unbalanced proposal since it did not include an offer by Soviet leaders to close down their military and naval facilities in South Yemen and Ethiopia . |
| 15 | The Prince regarded him thoughtfully . |
| 16 | Money fascinated him . |
| 17 | Maybe one of the powerful merchants regarded it as an eyesore . |
| 18 | The absence of noise placed it happily in the private sector . |
| 19 | I keep my money hidden me cos it 's |
| 20 | The Minotaur was finally slain by Theseus , who found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a skein of thread given him by the king 's daughter , ARIADNE . |
| 21 | Burrows and Hunter 's general conclusion is that " from the views given us by local authorities the 1988 Housing Act 's strengthening of the anti-harassment laws have made prosecutions slightly easier for local authorities but , in practice , there is often a failure to prosecute for a range of non-legal reasons " ( p. 41 ) . |
| 22 | If partnerships find the case proven they should consider how the tensions towards fragmentation might be reduced and how they might come to be a better understanding of the responsibilities and common commitments which are essential in any decentralised organisation . |
| 23 | Between late July and early October 1936 the rebels drove home the advantage given them by Franco 's agreements with Mussolini and Hitler . |
| 24 | None the less , the Committee considered that the instruments were available and the time ripe for achieving this enormous ambition : " We have the advantage given us by then necessity of a new departure among rapidly changing conditions , and by the opportunity of avoiding some causes of past failure " . |
| 25 | Nutty adjusted them for him . |
| 26 | Could you give guidance on the important matter of confidences given us by constituents ? |
| 27 | My one pound , seventeen shillings had been put together over a number of years by saving money given me on my birthdays by relatives . |
| 28 | The archbishop of Besançon was summoned through the bishop of Langres ( an intentional slight ) for allowing papal messengers to be captured ; the bishop of Speyer on the same grounds and also for sending one messenger to the gallows ; the archbishop of Tarentaise for crowning Philip ; and the bishop of Passau , who had probably been the draughtsman of the Staufen protest , had a long series of charges brought against him — he had not delivered two million marks to the king of Hungary , he had not paid back the money given him by Richard I for his release — indeed , his crimes were so great , the letter said , that he could have been punished without trial . |
| 29 | The old warrior treated it as a kind of personal adventure playground where he could drive through cherished projects such as the revival of the wartime Home Guard or toy with trifles such as the age of entry to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth . |
| 30 | This remark had haunted Khrushchev , who had several times explained he did not mean it literally , and finally got that famous goat . |