Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure . |
| 2 | ‘ The hotline has given me just the motivation I needed to get moving . ’ |
| 3 | But this new research has given me just the ammunition I need . |
| 4 | This book has given you quite a bit of practical advice — things to actually DO . |
| 5 | Altogether this little girl has cost us quite a lot of money . |
| 6 | It has taken me quite a while to be able to do that . |
| 7 | If I 'd met you earlier the fact that I 'm married would have made it impossible for me to take off and fly with you like this . |
| 8 | If we 'd seen it once a year that was often , |
| 9 | ‘ If you 'd asked me nearer the time … ’ |
| 10 | Winning the John Moores would have given me just the confidence I needed . |
| 11 | ‘ You must have brought him quite a way ? ’ |
| 12 | We should have driven her home an hour ago . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'd have thought your Brian could have found you somewhere a bit more comfortable , ’ interposed Mrs Harper , seeing her opportunity of introducing Brian to his disadvantage , ‘ he must know a few folk , it 's not only money that counts . … ’ |
| 14 | It must have cost her quite a bit too , taking on a man who looks like I look , his fat shoulders and heavy head tensed over the spectacle of her lost or twisted sisters . |
| 15 | Must have cost you quite a lot to buy them each a drink . |
| 16 | I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages . |
| 17 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 18 | She admitted then she might have liked him quite a lot . |
| 19 | ‘ I was watching that nun talking to you — it seems to have given you quite a turn . ’ |
| 20 | They seem to have got it together a bit more . |
| 21 | I 've hated it more every time I 've been back . |
| 22 | He had not been so happy with the farmland which went with the Fish ; his town talents ( he was from Cockermouth , about ten miles away ) had given him neither the patience nor the experience for such niggling country work and — as he was a man who took advice badly — his neighbours had soon left him alone to rot alone . |
| 23 | But she had given him neither an address nor a telephone number ; and the complexities of finding either had posed rather too much of a problem on a transatlantic line . |
| 24 | I 've enjoyed it quite a lot . |
| 25 | The commander had reminded him only the day before of the need to use manpower more efficiently : the government was no longer inclined to keep tossing money at the police force without seeing results . |
| 26 | ‘ What happened was Chester Thompson brought them all down , because he had met me about a year prior to that and we just corresponded . |
| 27 | SUMMERCHILD : Well , I 've noticed it quite a lot these past few months . |
| 28 | Maggie had seen him nearly every day at first . |
| 29 | " Do n't let the bugs bite " She said the words without thinking , just as she had said them almost every night of her life . |
| 30 | Lucy remonstrated , when Virginia had made them both a cup of tea and perched herself on the edge of Lucy 's bed . |