Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , you 'll have that in a minute once I 've eased me feet an' got some of these togs off . ’ |
| 2 | A century has not taught them manners . |
| 3 | ‘ My father 's given me tons of work , but I 'm in front of target , ’ he replied , and sounded a little more cheerful . |
| 4 | I mean , he 'd given me experiences I could never have hoped for . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's knackering and it has given me spots , ’ she sighs . |
| 6 | It 's given me loads of ideas , Luke — especially that ‘ office plant-care ’ thing that we came up with . |
| 7 | Since then my sales and marketing career has given me opportunities to meet people , handle interesting products and also do a lot of travelling . |
| 8 | Right , from Highgate has said if the good lord wanted cats to fly he would 've given them wings , it 's cruel doing things like that to animals . |
| 9 | ‘ — he would have given them wings . |
| 10 | The team had chosen one stone each , the stone that most resembled them , and given them nicknames . |
| 11 | Professor de Bono , there are well-established scales , particularly in the States , measuring long term stress and anxiety that we can use in rehabilitated patients to demonstrate that not only have the cardiologists given them years , but Doctor Bethell and his team have given them quality . |
| 12 | We have given them details . |
| 13 | If he was given them tokens or something like that , it would of been alright , but I , I , I a couple of weeks ago |
| 14 | The teacher had given them bricks of different widths . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , as it so happens , various people have wished me congratulations ; very kind ; though did n't recognise most of them , I must say . ’ |
| 16 | In that first parliament of his , immediately after his coronation , he had refrained from asking for money , had even prided himself on his princely forbearance , and believed it had won him friends and trust . |
| 17 | The church floor was swept and washed clean , thanks to Cecily the courtesan who had earned her pennies honestly by scrubbing every inch . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , Mum , you should n't have said them things , surely , ’ Jenny gasped when she could find her voice . |
| 19 | Three years ago — the day after Under Secretary Lehmann had been killed in the House by Tolonen — he had summoned the leaders of the House before him , and there , in the Purple Forbidden City where they had murdered his son , had granted them concessions , amongst them permission to build a generation starship . |
| 20 | But I wish Marie and Annie had seen them lights . |
| 21 | I walk like I seen them soldiers do — the ones with the red suits and big hats I seen . |
| 22 | Ee mum if you 'd have seen them cigarettes . |
| 23 | He ai n't done them ones yet . |
| 24 | Indeed , only Occulobe-enhanced eyesight could perceive such traces of the medical sculpting which had once made them Marines , as if the thinnest of pink veins wended across their bulging rock-hard melanchromic flesh , like a tracery in some golden marble which could become ochre-brown , which could become jet-black . |
| 25 | He had four matches in hand when Forest won the title with a goalless draw at Coventry , the ground where Blackburn 's 2-0 win has just made them leaders . |
| 26 | and my teaching has not made them strangers . |
| 27 | As I read that decision , it was held that she had not made them fixtures . |
| 28 | I 've written you poems better than I ever dreamed I could write … ’ |
| 29 | And if it meant the purchase of a hundred acres of timber , I 'd count it cash well spent — especially to get men who can work as I 've seen you lads work this week ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ For they should have made you twins . |