Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [art] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You feel like you 've heard them a couple of hundred times when it 's only been twice . |
| 2 | Fortunately for Conran , he had attended the sort of public school ‘ which had taught me a lot of practical skills ’ . |
| 3 | Without trying looking very heavily at these type of sales , where savings plans have been sold for future mortgages , erm , the clients are left thinking it 's building up money for their , for their deposit , for their legal fees , and it guarantees them a mortgage at sometime in the future . |
| 4 | It offers them an alternative to expensive air fares . |
| 5 | They serve as a valuable corrective to approaches of the kind that a behaviourist view might encourage , approaches which impose conformity on learners , reduce the scope of their participation as persons , and deny them the exercise of individual initiative in the learning process . |
| 6 | The government could pick up anyone they wanted and prosecute at their leisure , if we made them a present of all those names . |
| 7 | " The American South where I come from is mighty proud of its good manners , messieurs , " said the senator , flashing them a smile of exaggerated charm . |
| 8 | Current medical technology could never make me a man in full fact , but I could have what was available . |
| 9 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 10 | She lent me a couple of hundred quid because I was in financial difficulty . |
| 11 | The special position of the chief constable has been discussed in Chapter 4 , but there are other officers whose position grants them a degree of independent authority . |
| 12 | Many firms using the bubble policy have found that the resulting pollution was less than what the law allows , a circumstance that grants them a credit towards added pollution in the future . |
| 13 | He asked me a lot of suspicious questions , and eventually I was shown to what must have been the poorest room in his house , over the kitchen , facing a hen-run . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman asked me a number of specific questions . |
| 15 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Southend , West asked me a number of specific questions . |
| 16 | As Pyke got me a half of bitter I stood there regarding the rows of inverted bottles behind the barman 's head , not looking at the other actors in the pub , who I knew were all staring at me . |
| 17 | You 've assigned me the role of heartless villain financier , obsessed with money , wealth , and luxury . |
| 18 | My father made me a pair of wooden clappers and I used to rattle these and call out : |
| 19 | ‘ He made me an outcast at Old Trafford ’ |
| 20 | She 's given me a couple of great ideas . |
| 21 | ‘ He said : ‘ Man , nobody 's ever given me a fight like that . |
| 22 | I was neither Jew nor English nor white , or even a proper Indian or a proper Pakistani ; but my travels through Europe and stay in the USA and my near acceptance there as a living entity capable of suffering pain and enjoying pleasure had temporarily given me a sort of quasi-human status , further aggravated by those willing to be my sexual partners ; I had become spoilt and pampered . |
| 23 | ‘ I rang him — he 'd given me a list of all the Grands Prix contact numbers — but when he came to my hotel the next morning it was of his own accord . ’ |
| 24 | Stamford have given me a list of local McCloys and there again not a sniff as far as they know . |
| 25 | ‘ She very kindly invited me to lunch and she has given me a lot of useful information . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You have given me a breath of fresh air , Mrs Alderley ! ’ |
| 27 | The seating plan had given me no view at all of my now-giggling pals , but the great bonus of being next to Patricia Hutchinson , and opposite the Principal , who is most gracious , and does n't miss a trick . |
| 28 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 29 | On the one hand , does the integration of groups into the bureaucratic structure make them a threat to traditional democratic norms of accountable government ? |
| 30 | The resources they command make them no match for national and transnational corporations . |