Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [vb pp] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Or to put it another way , let us see how badly Miss Honey has taught you the three-times table . ’
2 In fact the only thing , I , I 'm hoping Robert 's packed me the razor , I 'll have a shave when I 'm there you know ?
3 And Peregrine Worsthorne has left her the word ‘ embonpoint ’ , which he used in court , among other circumlocutions , to describe her appeal .
4 I have not done anything to earn it , but God has given me the Spirit and accepted me into his family ; and he means me to know that I belong . ’
5 God has made everybody good at different things , so try to discover what it is that God has given you the ability to do , and try to do it as well as possible .
6 But through the Spirit , God has given us the ability to fulfil those requirements .
7 Barnes , who won the last of his eight caps in 1988 , makes his first Divisional appearance since that year and coach Keith Richardson has handed him the captain 's armband , worn by Bath team-mate Andy Robinson last season .
8 Microsoft has given it the thumbs up for Windows NT .
9 Now at last the successful bowel and liver transplant carried out in America has given her the chance of a normal future .
10 Now Michael White and John Gribbin have given us Stephen Hawking : a Life in Science , or rather Mr White has given us the life and Mr Gribbin the science ; the latter is awash with black holes , white dwarfs , protons , pulsars , quasars and quarks and is therefore no more comprehensible than Brief History ; also , what is one to make of a writer who speaks at one moment of ‘ tiny black holes ’ and the next of ‘ black holes which could eat solar systems for breakfast ’ ?
11 Signing for Salford and gaining the captaincy of Wales has given me the chance to prove myself . ’
12 Our information is that Hitler 's offered him the throne .
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