Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the way you looked told you where to sit annoyed her as well as the way she was treated by thinner people . |
| 2 | Or what he thought had happened inside his head , for those at the hospital who were supposed to know told him the brain scan showed nothing untoward . |
| 3 | The Bambara 's talk about the house and cattle they were going to buy made him wish that his father had agreed to move . |
| 4 | His ability to sleep annoyed her . |
| 5 | You may smile , but does freedom of the press mean freedom to choose its own standards ? … down , as I would have been obliged to do had it not been burned down during the state of emergency which followed independence . |
| 6 | and it said about tin cans and aluminium and that and it was costing them less excuse me to use recycled you know er used aluminium |
| 7 | She did not understand why they should be doing this and her failure to understand reminded her of something . |
| 8 | Curiosity rather than a desire to eavesdrop kept her hovering in the doorway , and she felt her blood start to run cold at what she heard . |
| 9 | Yet I feel it is unlikely to have delayed it so long . ’ |
| 10 | There 's a lot of very good stuff here but he seems to have gathered it up in armfuls and just bundled it in anywhere . |
| 11 | He still looks pretty miserable , but Dancer seems to have cheered him up , and the specialist says he 'll definitely be playing again next year . ’ |
| 12 | I have always thought that the sweetening of the waters of Marah resulted from the removal of the iron by the coagulation and flocculation of iron/tannin complexes , the tannin being derived from that tree — though I think that he [ Moses ] would have had to have bashed it up a bit first . |
| 13 | But this position is not obligatory ; which is just as well since I take the arguments of chapters 4 and 5 to have refuted it . |
| 14 | Jaq still clearly remembered his reprieve and how annoyed he had been not to have foreseen it . |
| 15 | They share a parent , who seems to have given them both the same handsome shiny leaves . |
| 16 | Where the two offices were united in one structure , Angell and Pownall seem to have given them an equal place on the Foreign Office and War Department lists , no doubt thinking that the implementation of the project would be considerably easier if the same architect were carrying out both offices . |
| 17 | Cardiff manager John Lawless moved heaven and earth to get the Coopers back to South Wales this summer and is believed to have given them both an unprecedented £10,000 signing on fee and a £30,000 salary . |
| 18 | I do not think that the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central , his hon. Friends or the majority of my hon. Friends would say that the Government were wrong , rather than giving no status to people who have been in this country for a number of years , to have given them exceptional leave to remain . |
| 19 | ‘ I would have preferred to have given them a run chase but I then decided we had to be positive and get whatever we could out of the match , ’ said Moxon . |
| 20 | By calling on his fellow socialists to perform the equivalent of a collective hara-kiri , he paradoxically appears to have given them back hope of a new life at the moment of their deepest despair . |
| 21 | By calling on his fellow party members to perform the equivalent of a collective hara-kiri , he paradoxically appears to have given them back hope of a new life at the moment of their deepest despair . |
| 22 | I 'm delighted to have given them two er security men does it mean security men are now available for all the county ? |
| 23 | His attempt to murder her seemed to have given him a new strength in the relationship . |
| 24 | However , his blazing indignation appears to have given him a nasty dose of alliterative-itis in a NUPE press release condemning the report as ‘ more market madness mirroring the mayhem in the mines ’ . |
| 25 | Ironically , having entered muon catalysed fusion initially to get away from the frenzy of high energy particle physics , Jones was about to be catapulted into greater media attention and controversy than a career in particle physics was ever likely to have given him ! |
| 26 | My astonishment in coming here is to see these later pictures of his , although I always associate Basil with being a very competent , sensitive , and a typical Euston Road type of painter , I do think his association with the North seems to have done something incredible , and these later water colours , with their tremendous feeling for " wind and Yorkshire weather " seem to have given him an absolutely different and much more mature outlook . |
| 27 | His parents seemed to have given him every encouragement and his first poems were imitations of his father 's songs . |
| 28 | This is not the start in life I would like to have given her . |
| 29 | What she did n't know was quite what life on a mission station would be like or how she would adjust to it , though it does n't appear to have given her any sleepless nights . |
| 30 | Years of the language battle seemed to have given me an inner eye . |