Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] [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 | Just before he left , Creed had given him the date . |
| 3 | Eleanor had given him the opportunity he had needed . |
| 4 | By turning record-packers into talent scouts , magazine salesmen into managers , Branson had paid them the compliment of saying ‘ I trust you ’ . |
| 5 | Mrs Wright had given him the key to lock the door but he had n't locked it . |
| 6 | Of course , Delia Sutherland had personalised it the way women do , in her case with a trace of dog . |
| 7 | Chico offered Rex the kind of comforting smile Rex had offered him the night before . |
| 8 | Her time with Giles had cost her the equivalent of a layer of skin . |
| 9 | He ate in the canteen , spoke with some of the robots , wandered into the sitting room where Roirbak had left him the stack of films , rejected every one as boring , and decided to do a little exploring . |
| 10 | With that instinct for survival that had kept the Member for Arden in Parliament for so long , Grunte had sold him the car at a nil rate of interest . |
| 11 | Theyll have to give us the trophy for keeps if we win it again in the next quarter century . |
| 12 | The other English Duke in Brussels , Wellington , would have been grateful had he known that Richmond had spared him the Duchess 's worries , for the Commander-in-Chief of the British and Dutch armies already had more than enough worries of his own . |
| 13 | Capron had lent me the gun , and suggested the ploy of telling Graham that I had found new evidence that would clear his name of the allegations that he was a Soviet agent . |
| 14 | After Mr Brocklehurst had given me the book and left , I felt I had to speak . |
| 15 | Stephen had given her the task of co-ordinating the interiors for the hotel , following the design schemes he had commissioned from a well-known Paris-based designer . |
| 16 | So IMP have given you the push , have they ? |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | And Peregrine Worsthorne has left her the word ‘ embonpoint ’ , which he used in court , among other circumlocutions , to describe her appeal . |
| 19 | Bath had felt it the week before but they had the experience and strength to overcome it . |
| 20 | Dod had got me the job and we were using his van , so everything was okay by me . |
| 21 | I told him that Jo had given me the cash , though I was suitably vague as to exactly how I recovered her lost property . |
| 22 | Nothing happened at first , but Peccable had warned him the Bowls usually took some time to start from cold . |
| 23 | The moment Madame Mattli had offered her the job she had made up her mind . |
| 24 | ‘ Wild ’ , Omi had called him the night he arrived , a wild boy , and now another dimension had been added to that figure from long ago : cruelty — a cruel boy … . |
| 25 | Scott would bet that he had never worn the snakeskin overcoat Annabel had given him the Christmas before . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But through the Spirit , God has given us the ability to fulfil those requirements . |
| 29 | The Goodison Park striker claimed manager Howard Kendall had made him the scapegoat for all the problems besetting the Mersey giants and blamed the absence of a midfield creator for the lack of goals . |
| 30 | 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 . |