Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last possibility is one that has given me some concern over these months , and is something about which I still feel undecided . |
| 2 | I hope this article has given you some insight into what it 's like to be on the receiving end of your cichlid queries . |
| 3 | ‘ Doug Laughton has flogged us all week on the tackle patterns . |
| 4 | Ever since he 'd given her that power of attorney she 'd been getting above herself . |
| 5 | Well he thought your dad was buying that mould from Jim so he did say that , he , he 'd lent him that book on how to actually build them , but that 's |
| 6 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 7 | She had n't simply evaded him ; she 'd evaded him each time with an ease that had left him looking like a fool . |
| 8 | After missing him so desperately over the last six weeks it was more than she had ever dreamed of to find herself suddenly close to him again , and maybe by the time they reached their destination he would have given her some clue about the way he wanted things to be . |
| 9 | Dowd had stayed out of the Retreat all the time he 'd waited for Godolphin ( a wearisome three days ) even though it would have given him some measure of protection against the bitter cold . |
| 10 | The check would have given him more control over the hammers and the freedom to play more powerfully than he had done in 1777 , without making the piano jangle . |
| 11 | That would have given you some idea of the way I work . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I could have seen him this morning before your lot arrived but I funked it . ’ |
| 13 | An unemployed actor went to his agent to complain about his agent not having found him any work in months . |
| 14 | That was quite a nice dinner you ordered , though you need n't have been quite so Spartan — I 'm glad to see you 've allowed us some sugar with these raspberries — I appreciated your nuance of not having the fish just grilled . |
| 15 | They and the Carters were to have shared it that year with the computer analyst and his wife , but one of this couple 's children was involved in an accident and they had to cancel at the last minute . |
| 16 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 17 | When you 're preparing what you 're going to say , use notes , and I 've given you some guidance in the handout on using notes . |
| 18 | Swan asked Amaranth if Harvey had given her any information about the new motorway . |
| 19 | Lead technician said the training trip had given her more confidence about how to handle the machines . |
| 20 | It was Mark who had persuaded her to approach the bank for a loan , Mark who had suggested her old friend Linda George , who had graduated in business studies at the same time that Theresa had finished her fashion degree , should join forces with her to organise the commercial side , Mark who had given her enough confidence in herself for her to allow her mother to put up her house as security — something Theresa had fought against even whilst realising there was no other way to secure the loan she needed . |
| 21 | Then , for the first time in three decades , Mr Wolski had reached out his hands and touched the eagle he had loved and who had given him such comfort for so long . |
| 22 | The Colonel , the Honourable , the Member of Parliament had given him more access to what nearly approached aristocratic companionship than he had ever enjoyed . |
| 23 | Perhaps he had given him some idea of when he would be home . |
| 24 | After he 'd found the half-burned counterfoil slips from the railway tickets stuffed down the back of the apartment 's disused fireplace , his next move had been to return to his Militia post and report that an anonymous source had given him some information on the whereabouts of Alina Petrovna , escapee from the prison hospital and probable murderer of the psychiatrist Belov . |
| 25 | No , looks as though they 've done you some sort of . |
| 26 | I was going to , one of the , the many things that I went to away last meeting with was , was the idea of , that I 've missed it this time for Playback is a list , a listings kind of mechanism , so obviously this is the first one |
| 27 | La , like I 've done today I 've made him another jelly in it . |
| 28 | The Americans had bought him some time by offering refuge to Colonel Rebu and two other colonels . |
| 29 | The parents had n't been offered any sort of advice or counselling ; they had all received a letter from Paul Lee inviting them to come and talk to his department , but no one had offered them any information about their children ; if they wanted that they had to ring up the department and ask for it . |
| 30 | The reason he wanted desperately to get into the company was that Ninette de Valois , to whom he had already spoken about his choreographic ambitions , had told him that experience of working with other choreographers and dancing their ballets was essential to learn his craft . |