Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The police have given me a special telephone number . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Their record of service has won them a British Waterways competition . |
| 5 | ‘ Is that necessary ? ’ asked his wife , who had all the instincts that would , a century ago , have made her a successful workhouse mistress . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 've also given you a living assurance rate book , because we 'll be looking at both the rate books in a minute . |
| 8 | ‘ If I had n't known you could by last night , ’ she retorted , ‘ I 'd have got me a spare staff nurse even if it had meant taking this bloody hospital apart . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Amanda just called you a super piss head ! |
| 11 | He inspired spite : critics called him a male Farah Fawcett , said he was pretty enough to make a convincing transvestite . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He 'd given her a few sugar pieces , which she 'd taken , and even offered several pinches of snuff , which she had n't . |
| 14 | By September the Franco courts had given him a twenty-year prison sentence . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had been working at tar Processing and the fumes had given him an unpleasant skin complaint . |
| 17 | You 'd have probably served them a frozen TV meal ! |
| 18 | ‘ They 've even given it a full display window , Folly . |
| 19 | ‘ Karl has sent me a good luck card . |
| 20 | ‘ We have sent him a loyal birthday telegram in exile , ’ he said . |
| 21 | This was an important mission , yet they had sent him a minor police official who seemed to have little standing or influence . |
| 22 | ‘ You shitbag , Tiny , you could have given us a bloody heart attack . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 |