Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some boy give me a single red rose and I 'd say , What you done with the other four , given them to your other girls ? |
| 2 | It was at this place last year that Gabellah found the touch with God which has carried him to his present leadership . |
| 3 | The report was able to recount what had been done in the first year of effort of the newly-organised national campaign for emancipation but to stress continuity through reliance on the circulation of pamphlets by Wilberforce and Clarkson ; reformers were ‘ thus enabled to proceed under the conduct of the same veteran Champions who had first led the battle against the African Slave Trade and who had pursued it to its final extinction ’ . |
| 4 | This will form a one-stitch ladder to each side of the cable making working easier and the stitch will not run because you have secured it to its adjacent needle . |
| 5 | You know , the kid who 's played it to his best friend who tells him it 's great . ’ |
| 6 | Those nights of passionate improvisation after she 'd introduced me to her two friends from Peredelkino , the writers ' village . |
| 7 | And so it 's keeping up the the good work that 's of of lobbying MPs to such a degree that they they 've got to back it which is what 's brought it to its second reading as one of the most popular er private member 's bills in history . |
| 8 | Bultmann was primarily a New Testament scholar , and his theological position , once he had settled it to his own satisfaction , remained more or less inflexible thereafter . |
| 9 | The economists advising Beveridge had converted him to their own views , which Beveridge described as ‘ the socialisation of demand ’ . |
| 10 | Daughter TIFFANY BLACK examines how her mother 's life has led her to her present occupation as professional artist and art school owner . |
| 11 | He had given it to his youngest daughter , Margaret , when she trained as a nurse at Benedict 's just after the last World War . |
| 12 | Sir Tom had tried to get me out , had failed , and had then left me to my own devices . |
| 13 | All this contrasts vividly with those many families that have not taken on board self-fulfilment for their children , but have left them to their own devices : the ‘ latch-key ’ children , those out in the streets , members of territorial gangs . |
| 14 | After you 'd deserted me to my dubious fate . ’ |
| 15 | If only he 'd finished his new masterpiece before he 'd submitted it to her critical eye . |
| 16 | If the crime had been other than murder he would have left it to his Scientific Officer assistant , not yet returned from a belated lunch . |
| 17 | Richard said : ‘ The fierce weather we encountered on the third leg has tested us to our very limits . |
| 18 | I have already mentioned it to my American contacts , and received assurances … ’ |