Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 2 | The Good Book has taught us their image , they must be outcasts with the mark of Cain upon them , Ishmaels for whom the savage wilderness is home till they come to know the wisdom of the Lord . |
| 3 | Chris has given me my instructions so |
| 4 | This place has given me my first identity really . |
| 5 | My father 's leg , locked solid , has given me my sanctuary up in the warm space of the big loft , right at the top of the house where the junk and the rubbish are , where the dust moves and the sunlight slants and the Factory sits — silent , living and still . |
| 6 | The goodness which their behaviour has created and which has given them their special places , may now be regarded as part of the Created God . |
| 7 | They do not flower , but carry spores , as ferns do , to which they are related , and have clusters of frond-like branches on erect stems , the appearance of which has given them their common name ; they are sometimes also called mare's-tails . |
| 8 | And God will not only listen to our insignificant prayers , but has given us his Spirit to enable us to pray and to share with us in that most demanding task . |
| 9 | On May 31 the ANC secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa told the press that the " conference has given us our battle orders " and that campaigns would focus on the release of all the remaining political prisoners , the election of a sovereign constitution-making body , the establishment of an interim government of national unity , and the creation of the conditions for free and fair elections . |
| 10 | The above named has applied for the position of Trainee Trading Standards Officer with this Department , and has given us your name as a referee . |
| 11 | ‘ So doing this has given you your appetite back ? ’ |
| 12 | A New Brutalist Conservative government has brought the moral Right in from the cold of post-60s permissive liberalism and has given it its head . |
| 13 | As Annie bent to retrieve it her face came in line with Alex 's rosy bottom . |
| 14 | In fact , ‘ Damnation Derek ’ is a Christian who believes in ‘ Witnessing ’ and it is this simple , even commendable desire to tell others about God and all things Christian that has earned him his nickname ( 'Damnation' is n't his real name — in case you thought he had very unloving parents ! ) and which has made him a Playground Health Hazard . |
| 15 | In fact Bowe , the giggling assassin from Mike Tyson 's hometown of Brownsville , has stopped all but four opponents in an unbeaten 31-fight career that has earned him his right to challenge Evander Holyfield for the world heavyweight title here on Friday . |
| 16 | That maturity has won him his first TV starring role in ITV 's new £2 million , three-part drama serial The Blackheath Poisonings which starts on Monday . |
| 17 | she has lent them their cousins ' pyjamas , they are sitting |
| 18 | The catalogue of personal influence which has lent you your unique inner identity is simply enormous . |
| 19 | Obviously if the club wants to sell them its a different matter . |
| 20 | Football has done it its best in order to cope with the problem inside the grounds . |
| 21 | My father has made him my responsibility . |
| 22 | But he has made it his business to master the terminology of the economic debate , and applied to the problem an elegant and sophisticated technique of intellectual biography . |
| 23 | Since John 's death , however , one of his younger cousins , Robin Cranko , has made it his business to search out the beginnings of the family . |
| 24 | ‘ No one has made it his own and that 's why the sleectors have chosen three of us for the training trip to Lanzarote . |
| 25 | Alan is just 26 and it 's probably purely that which has got him my vote . |
| 26 | My friend , you say only a merlan , I say give me your whiting and I will create a masterpiece — a soufflé de merlan à la Didier . ’ |
| 27 | As the girl ran off , her pretty face glowing with happiness , Victoria said , ‘ Mrs Richards has told me her story , Shelley . |
| 28 | Now , we have spoken to your secretary who has told us your usual fee and we would be happy to donate that amount to your favourite charity ! ’ |
| 29 | Mr has handed me your driving licence . |
| 30 | THE vote that gave the Democrats the White House and is expected to give them their tightest grip on Congress in decades also saw the first black woman elected to the Senate . |