Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competition could be fierce , as a young Dundee officer discovered when even the influence of the powerful David Scott failed to secure him a place for the voyage of 1801 because |
| 2 | ‘ I expect it 's Vera — she promised to give me a recipe for salmon mousse . |
| 3 | Her background was a few rungs up from the Jenkinses and that elementary social fact helped to give her a poise in the face of his ever-increasing sureness . |
| 4 | Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce . |
| 5 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 6 | The ship 's doctor tried to give them the kiss of life but they could not be revived . |
| 7 | I tried to give her the kiss of life . |
| 8 | Last week in my talk I tried to give you an introduction to the subject we call art . |
| 9 | ‘ She tried to spin me a yarn about her husband going back to Poland on holiday in 1950 and being killed in a car crash . |
| 10 | ‘ At first I tried to keep it a secret from my wife and three children , ’ says Chris . |
| 11 | The influence of the ‘ parent ’ is very strong — parents tried to teach you the concepts of life . |
| 12 | Llandudno had merely assisted with funding his flight to this country and helped to get him a job in the locality . |
| 13 | Indenbaum knew how badly Modigliani needed money so he tried to offer him a sum within his means for the beautiful oil , but Modigliani was offended and obliged Indenbaum to accept the portrait as a present . |
| 14 | Before he went , Connors promised to get me a rundown on the police activity in the Fourth Precinct following the incident at the back of the Regal Arms . |
| 15 | We jumped out and met him at the rear of the vehicle and tried to show him a letter of introduction from the Algerian Ambassador to Britain , Lakhdar Brahimi . |
| 16 | ‘ You promised to show us a way of relieving overcrowding . |
| 17 | He said he was n't when he came to see me a couple of years back . |
| 18 | Oddly enough , it even , while it lasted , seemed to give her a sense of purpose in life . |
| 19 | The fact that she and Hugh happened to fit the bill seemed to give her every opportunity for finding out . |
| 20 | This frightened me but seemed to make me a hero in the eyes of the Dutch who broke out into a fever of winks and jerked-up thumbs and V-signs all round me . |
| 21 | Ronni turned to deliver him a look of disapproval . |
| 22 | In the end she agreed to give him the money for " Jack 's " fare . |
| 23 | And my pounding heart served to give me a feeling of impending doom . |
| 24 | He even threatened to send me a bill for his time . ’ |
| 25 | One day , to escape heavy rain he wandered into a tavern called the ‘ Spotted Dog ’ which was kept by Joe Parrish , a veteran fighter , who became impressed with the young lad — then aged 16 — and began to teach him the science of the ring . |
| 26 | He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed . |
| 27 | Her owner rushed to bring her a bucket of oats before she should become entangled in the fence once again . |
| 28 | Then I went through the samples in my kitchen and realised that , rather than look at the non-mainstream areas , I could look at wines from perfectly accepted areas that broke the usual conventions ; or in one brilliant example , I could see what great traditional winemakers — in this case a pair of Burgundian grandees — could do when they decided to rough it a bit in France 's far south . |
| 29 | So much , that I decided to draw you a piccy of your swish logo on our school 's Nimbus printer . |
| 30 | She thought about that one for a second , then decided to give me the benefit of the doubt . |