Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can my right hon. and learned Friend give us any estimate of the time that will elapse before the European Court gives its judgment on the matter ? |
| 2 | The fact that one of the Bill 's triggers was the Channel 4 Screening of Derek Jarman 's Sebastiane gives us some indication of the possible threats to homosexual images on television . |
| 3 | Unlike many other adventures , Rex gives you three levels of difficulty to suit both amateurs and hardened adventures . |
| 4 | For none of the many examples does Taylor give us any account of the appropriate Darwinian thinking . |
| 5 | For £60 , Melanie Wein and her mother Natalie offers you six hours of tuition in eyelid flutters , pouting lips , slick chat-up lines and how to make yourself wanted . |
| 6 | One of the best descriptions of the landscape of Madeira is that given by White and Johnson ( Madeira. : Its Climate and Scenery , 1860 ) : ‘ When Columbus was asked by Queen Isabella to give her some notion of the configuration of Jamaica , it is said that he took up a sheet of paper , and after crushing it in his hand , partly opened it out ; then placing it on the table , he told her Majesty that she would derive a better idea of the island from the crumpled paper than from any description conveyed in words . |
| 7 | A few snippets from the Feedback Sheets on Care Sunday give us some flavour of what has happened in different parishes across the Diocese e.g : |
| 8 | ‘ No more , thanks , ’ she said when Vitor offered her another piece of chocolate . |
| 9 | One may guess at the Spaniard 's dismay when Moctezuma passed him some lumps of greenstone enjoining him to hand them to none other than his prince . |
| 10 | We walked the town walls , whilst Jessie Young told us breathtaking stories of battered Berwick 's stormy history . |
| 11 | I see from my files that Simon Murison-Bowie sent you two copies of the Agreement for this tape which required signing on behalf of the University of Toronto and return to us , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements in his letter of 19 February . |
| 12 | Neither the General nor Bill gave me any hint of lolly . ’ |
| 13 | When he saw the blue uniforms of the New York police , did Buddeke show them some sort of identification or did he just leave ? |
| 14 | Suppose a seller , S , has contracted with A in Aylesbury to sell him 60 cwt. of potatoes and with B in Bristol to sell him 25 cwt. and with C in Cardiff to sell him 15 cwt . |
| 15 | ‘ Francis taught me all kinds of stuff from books and talked to me . |
| 16 | Anthony Cheetham offered me complete control of the whole sales operation at the Orion Publishing Group Ltd , encompassing home and export sales for both hardbacks and mass market paperbacks , and while I have been very happy at Random House in its many incarnations , I felt it was too good an offer to miss . |
| 17 | His frequent presence in Peking afforded him unprecedented opportunities of acquisition among the art objects released on the market as the old social order of China broke down . |
| 18 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 19 | If Schopenhauer had given him the notion of a personal vision of life , Wagner gave him first-hand knowledge of a creative talent and the ambition to emulate its cultural achievements . |
| 20 | ' I was ah — I was just thinking that we really must — must get Willy to give us another shot of his old car ; you know , the Mini he bombs up and down the sands on sometimes ? |
| 21 | The Emissary gave me another view of his new teeth as I glanced round . |