Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dormer windows faced a high wall which hid railway storerooms and repair sheds , but the absence of dwellings on that side of Celtic Crescent helped to give the wider roadway an open aspect . |
| 2 | In truth , she found watching the endless circuiting a little tedious and especially when there was no one to talk to . |
| 3 | They seemed to enjoy the whole thing a hundred times more than your average blasé concert-goer . ’ |
| 4 | I turned to give the small lady an outsize in winks , as though the whole thing was a conspiracy , which it was , and she was n't included , which she was n't . |
| 5 | Large or small , visitors love the big daddy of 'em all — Shamu the killer whale , guaranteed to give the spellbound audience a good soaking . |
| 6 | Both leaves and flower-heads are prickly , the latter surrounded with protective spiny bracts guaranteed to teach the hungriest goat a painful lesson . |
| 7 | I decided to give the combined mode a try since I was using a fairly fast 386DX — it was still painfully slow so I reverted to separate modes . |
| 8 | She managed to give the would-be lawn a rough cut with an ancient mower she found in the outside store , and now she was tackling the border where already green shoots pierced the earth with promise . |
| 9 | On the other hand , the infinitive event is understood to be realized after verbs of achievement ( I managed , got to ask the Prime Minister a question ) , causation ( I persuaded , convinced him to give up smoking ) , etc . |
| 10 | From what I had gathered of her dinner with him in town , despite her obvious pleasure in meeting him again , she had given the poor man a straight brush-off . |
| 11 | These were the people Wesley had come to Cornwall to save , to rescue from the devil and , by all accounts , they had given the old campaigner a hard time of it . |
| 12 | There was one great and essential difference , however , between Haussmann and Wren ; the Great Fire of 1666 had given the English architect a head-start when it came to demolition of existing buildings . |
| 13 | There was one thing where a guy was writing The Bells Of Lal Pt 2 from the ‘ Flying ’ record and he had done the entire song an eighth note off ! |
| 14 | Salisbury did not share half the views held by those who accepted his lead , but he was a focus for the increasing Unionist discontent , a respectable public figure acting from the highest motives ; by 1921 he had made the diehard opposition a formidable force . |
| 15 | The public grew to hate the licensors , and Parliament eventually uncovered widespread corruption in their operation — fraud , extortion and intimidation had made the whole system a scandal . |
| 16 | Some had made the original policy an enthusiastic part of their provision . |
| 17 | He had been dismayed , almost horrified , when she had opened the front door a crack and displayed herself pale and ill and obviously in need of cherishing . |
| 18 | The second final place was contested between Alex A — who had played the first round a player short — and Mason 's packing house . |
| 19 | The play , written by André Birabeau and set in the Paris of 1919 , brought praise for the performances of Crawford and his co-star , nineteen-year-old Sarah Long , who had played the same role a year earlier when a different production was staged in Brighton and London . |
| 20 | In September 1947 Britain 's foreign secretary , Ernest Bevin , and France 's premier , Paul Ramadier , talked of uniting their colonial empires together , and socialist politicians including British premier Clement Attlee hoped to give the third force an ideological dimension : against American capitalism and Soviet communism , Europe would stand as the champion of democratic socialism , combining liberal political rights with radical social reform . |
| 21 | It should be said that the fact that electrical activity was possible indicates that Miss Thomas had experienced the cardiac arrest a relatively short time prior to her arrival in the department and that at least some of the resuscitative effort performed by the police had been effective . |
| 22 | Three of her friends — also nurses — had taken the same route a few minutes before . |