Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your excellent work has given us the answer to that question , Watson . |
| 2 | It has taken me a while to be successful and I 've had a good time in arriving . |
| 3 | But next to the Dance Hall if we 'd given them the licence to ha turn the cinema into a Dance Hall , there was this little old boy who lived just the other side of the road , in an old cottage , and he was over eighty . |
| 4 | Actually there 's Paul , the guy who 'd given me a lift to the concert and , and he mentioned going to the , the film I saw , erm but I knew he was going to the pub , he always goes to the pub afterwards . |
| 5 | He would have given me an introduction to Paul Valéry as well , except that he was out of Paris . |
| 6 | It would have given her an excuse to be searching for a particular room , but she had been so frightened … |
| 7 | This would have given him the opportunity to be a restraining influence against the extremists . |
| 8 | ‘ We could have given you an introduction to Professor Vanchetti in Rome , ’ said Gervase Fairfax , who was Penelope 's other neighbour , ‘ but unfortunately he dropped down dead the other day . ’ |
| 9 | If they 'd have shown me a bit to , when we first went I would n't have ordered it . |
| 10 | It 's too easy , I think , to assume that women are n't aggressive and are sensitive and men are more aggressive and less sensitive because that 's the way society has wanted them to be in the past and children have grown up and lived up to those stereotypes , so I do n't think we can actually say yet that women can offer anything distinctive until we 've given them the chance to be themselves really . |
| 11 | I was surprised , but she said Bill had given her a list to be a help with messages . |
| 12 | He sometimes had given her a lift to Atherton , Manchester , where she had been staying . |
| 13 | Anne had given her the parcel to post two days ago and she had completely forgotten all about it . |
| 14 | Jenny was the girl she lived with , and the one who had given her the impetus to finally escape the suffocating love of her father and uncle in Hong Kong . |
| 15 | The receptionist at the hotel had given him a key to the front door and his mind was a chaotic mixture of emotions and thoughts as he walked past it towards the shore . |
| 16 | A property millionaire had given him the key to the Mayfair pad where he squired Antonia . |
| 17 | It was she who , when the manuscript was ready , had given him an introduction to Alistair MacFee , a professor of English at the university . |
| 18 | Her mother had given herself the answer to her question : girls these days did n't know what they wanted . |
| 19 | Miles and Juliet had offered him a lift to Pangbourne Station . |
| 20 | Instead of the Exchequer , Baldwin had offered him the embassy to Washington , which Chamberlain had rejected with anger . |
| 21 | Regretfully , the young gentleman told him that he had quoted me the price to the trade , and for a retail sale it would be slightly more expensive , i.e. £36 plus VAT . |
| 22 | It 's looking promising at the moment , we 've had a lot of support from the people of Didcot , er a number of companies have made donations , T N T express have given us a van to er transport the bikes to the start/finish , and Denton Cycles spares for the bikes if we break down , punctures being the worst |
| 23 | He 's given me the key to his apartment . ’ |