Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A seminarist has brought me a blanket off his own bed .
2 Second , asking questions establishes whether the buyer has understood what the salesperson has said .
3 The programmer has given us a production concept which will spread to every aspect of the teaching process .
4 It would be a misuse of powers for a judge to say : ‘ I know Parliament has given me a discretion to vary orders in contempt appeals and make just ones , but I 'm never going to use them .
5 In future the Minister will be able to refer to the Bill and say , ’ Parliament has given you the power to dispose of works of art , if you wish to acquire more — and , in using those receipts from disposals , you are specifically confined to making further acquisitions .
6 The noise has given me a head . ’
7 For Coun. Mrs Kay Kirkham , Liberal Democrat , the election has given her the chance to experience the action from the other side of the fence .
8 The university has set itself the objective of becoming an outstanding research and teaching university .
9 The experience has taught me a lot , not least about Margaret Thatcher 's single achievement in changing the class contours of British politics .
10 No politician could have bettered it : ‘ Experience has taught us the fallibility of the assertion that crime rates amongst those of West Indian origin are no higher than those of the population at large . ’
11 The case has caused us a lot of grief . ’
12 ‘ This Budget has given me no confidence to spend whatsoever , ’ Mr Ingram said .
13 The camcorder has given everyone the chance to star in their own home movies .
14 An application has been made to the Charity Commissioners for the Bradford Atea Project to be given registered charity status and the association has set itself a target of raising £20,000 during the next 12 months .
15 ‘ I am older than the king ; and grief has made me a man . ’
16 My fear has made me a prisoner in my own home ; I go out only for essential shopping .
17 In short , Labour and the Liberal Democrats will have the argument won for them on the ground — and as long as they locate their policies in terms of wealth creation , rather than punitive redistribution , the current election election result has given them a platform from which effectively to challenge for power next time round .
18 Stephen 's quick thinking has earned him a bravery award in the Care in Crisis competition run by the Red Cross , and the respect of his mother .
19 ‘ But when the stranger has done one a signal service — ’
20 ‘ We 've both been working so hard that this break has given us the opportunity for a second honeymoon , ’ he told her smoothly .
21 I mean I think shrinking the broadsheet width has spoilt it a lot .
22 It is assumed that research has established what the nature of child abuse is , who the actual and potential perpetrators and victims are and hence what are the associated factors which put children at ‘ high risk ’ .
23 Those long years in junior command had given him an intimacy with the poilu denied to most of the other French chiefs , and because of his low rank in 1914 he knew — unlike Haig and Joffre — very well what wounded men looked like .
24 By Thursday , some journalists were reporting that a Royal aide had told them the marriage was ‘ clearly not made in heaven ’ .
25 A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards .
26 His years in the ring had left him the legacy of being quick on his feet , and he caught Larsen some twenty yards short of the door .
27 For a final moment the inflamed bruise on his left calf where the scorpion had stung him a week before seemed to blaze with new agonizing fire .
28 His clemency had earned him the regard of the West and would , surely , last until Twelfth Night .
29 Its omnifont recognition algorithms teamed up with the use of the dictionary have given us a recognition rate we 'd estimate at between 98% and 99% , and all without having to teach the program what any letters are , which we consider to be very good .
30 The two hundred and forty-seven pounds of weight have made him a bit short of breath .
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