Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) has huffed and puffed , but he has not told us the Labour party 's position on a single proposal contained in the Green Paper . |
| 2 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |
| 3 | Indeed , Central has always brought you the unlikely . |
| 4 | He has some obsession she has n't told him the whole truth . ’ |
| 5 | Mr. Green has again promised me the pencilled sketches of Dove 's Nest . |
| 6 | Fate , thought Charlotte , gazing innocently back into his admiring , devoted , humiliated and furious face , has certainly given me the upper hand of you , my boy ! |
| 7 | Jacqui had only given him the Christian name . |
| 8 | The most prominent families had no objection to service — it had long offered them the surest route to power , wealth , and prestige . |
| 9 | Pertwee had already employed it the previous morning effectively to terminate interrogation . |
| 10 | Certainly such people existed , but the man who allowed his mind and soul to be ruled by their existence had already handed them the better part of the argument . |
| 11 | He had not provided water to wash the feet and had not given him the traditional greeting of a kiss ( Luke 7:44–45 ) . |
| 12 | So when asked why I had not told her the whole story , I replied , ‘ Because you never asked me . ’ |
| 13 | she had guessed Taczek had not told her the whole truth of his relationship with Mills but now had confirmation . |
| 14 | I 'm supposed to think that you 've just given me the OK . ’ |
| 15 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |
| 16 | She had never held a baby before that was not a fat , well-dressed , sweet-smelling thing , but not one of them had ever given her the strange sense of fulfilment which the pitiful scrap of humanity in her arms , wrapped in the square which she had earlier scissored from her petticoat , did . |
| 17 | Someone had once called it the biggest open mental institution in the world , one of the twin armpits of the British Isles , presumably with Glasgow as the other , Glasgow before the tartan yuppies got to it . |
| 18 | She had n't rejected him the first time , though , just evaded a decision , wanting him to strengthen it somehow . |
| 19 | In this one it was n't quite so er , straightforward in that we , we had n't given you the actual activities to do . |
| 20 | He had , as Dalgliesh knew , grudgingly respected Kate 's ability to look down at the butchered bodies in St Matthew 's vestry and not be sick , but he had n't liked her the better for it . |
| 21 | It was only when they came out of the rearmost door and found a temporary hut facing them with Radio Room marked on the door , that they realised why they had n't found it the first time . |
| 22 | It 's quite good that that chap had actually showed you the right quote were n't it ? |
| 23 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 24 | I have just given you the traditional quantum mechanical recipe for calculating probabilities . |
| 25 | ‘ They have n't called us the United Nations team yet , but after Tuesday I think they might , ’ admits captain Michael Patton . |
| 26 | ‘ I have n't told you the whole story ! |