Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The police have given me a special telephone number . |
| 2 | With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it . |
| 3 | If undemanding schooling methods , supplemented by hours in front of cretinous , discontinuous TV programmes , have given them a thirty-second attention span , poor linguistic skills , therefore poor conceptualising and critical powers , and a craving for instant entertainment , then it will not matter what cultural policy a government adopts . |
| 4 | More than one of them remarked on how pleasant it was to return to base in the early hours , cold , cramped and tired out , to see our welcoming smiles as they called in at the office on their way down to the Mess , even though they had probably only called in to tear us off a strip for having given them a rotten weather forecast . |
| 5 | Given them the negative polarity item I give a damn . |
| 6 | ‘ Is that necessary ? ’ asked his wife , who had all the instincts that would , a century ago , have made her a successful workhouse mistress . |
| 7 | Lorton had lent him a black Balaclava helmet which covered all of his head except the eyes and the bridge of the nose ; feeling like a trainee terrorist , he pulled it on ; he was grateful for its warmth . |
| 8 | Yeah I know I fou seen it the other day Mary . |
| 9 | I 've also given you a living assurance rate book , because we 'll be looking at both the rate books in a minute . |
| 10 | He asked me what I was going to wear and said his mam had just bought him a new duffle coat and did I like it , ’ she says . |
| 11 | The reception had told her the Scottish Football team were residents in the hotel which increased her hopes of picking up the odd tip in order to ease her way through University . |
| 12 | Amanda just called you a super piss head ! |
| 13 | But Mr Norman Bell , who drives the No 8 United bus between Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland , was called in to learn a survey had found him the friendliest bus driver in Britain . |
| 14 | His long experience of bird watching in the hills of Arran had taught him the best vantage points . |
| 15 | She prospered at GSA nevertheless , coming out with the second highest marks in her final year , which should have given her a valuable travelling scholarship . |
| 16 | He 'd given her a few sugar pieces , which she 'd taken , and even offered several pinches of snuff , which she had n't . |
| 17 | By September the Franco courts had given him a twenty-year prison sentence . |
| 18 | Cheered on by the huge German crowd , who 'd given him a two-minute standing ovation when his record was read out during the knock-up , Becker was devastating in the first set . |
| 19 | He had been working at tar Processing and the fumes had given him an unpleasant skin complaint . |
| 20 | You 'd have probably served them a frozen TV meal ! |
| 21 | ‘ They 've even given it a full display window , Folly . |
| 22 | ‘ Karl has sent me a good luck card . |
| 23 | Elizabeth had sent me the hideous paper cover of the Italian translation of A Wreath of Roses , in shame marking it BURN . |
| 24 | ‘ We have sent him a loyal birthday telegram in exile , ’ he said . |
| 25 | ‘ You shitbag , Tiny , you could have given us a bloody heart attack . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ All sorts of people have helped : The Rural Development Commission has lent us £10,000 to top up what we raised ; all the retired , trainee and working accountants , lawyers , journalists and businessmen in the village have put in hours of voluntary work , and our grocery wholesaler Pharaoh Quirke has given us a new fascia board . ’ |
| 27 | Jean the whole point about it is I gave him I , I gave him a thousand pound worth of work and one fella , a young fella ah Raymond look at that , and he gives him twenty off the drink for a year and after the year |