Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , from Highgate has said if the good lord wanted cats to fly he would 've given them wings , it 's cruel doing things like that to animals . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's called a Midge , but my three-year-old daughter has christened it James . |
| 3 | She too has given him confidence and relieved some of the loneliness of his position . |
| 4 | But the surgery has given him confidence to stand head and shoulders above the rest . |
| 5 | But if Abraham 's trust has gone , God has given him cause . |
| 6 | Although the money MI6 has provided has given him access to Western luxuries , they can not compensate for the fact that he will never see his motherland again . |
| 7 | Part of Keith 's interest in the documentary style of photography he excels in was , perhaps , further fuelled by the amount of time he has , over the years , spent in part-time social work which has given him access to various kinds of care units . |
| 8 | Her love for her child has given him comfort and helped him forget his pain . |
| 9 | ‘ My first priority is to feed my wife and two children , but the German win has given me respite of about 13 months to consider medals rather than money . |
| 10 | My manager has given me permission for me to use the shop foyer for a whole day and I hope to get local radio and local papers to advertise the sale for me . |
| 11 | If the Druidic Priest is quick to come back with a reply of ‘ Your Master has given me permission to enter ’ or something equally convincing , the door will say , ‘ Oh , all right . |
| 12 | Or at least by one maiden , and she has given me battle . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's knackering and it has given me spots , ’ she sighs . |
| 14 | A home of my own has given me confidence . |
| 15 | And I can not suppose that experience itself has given me reason to believe that the unobserved will resemble the observed , since the appeal to experience begs the question asked ; it argues not to but from the crucial belief that our experience is a reliable guide , or that the unobserved will resemble the observed . |
| 16 | He himself says in his 2nd Edition of the Perambulation of Kent , which he revised whilst living here , " At this place of the Bishop in Halling I am drawing on the last scene of my life , where God has given me Liberorum Ouadrigam , all the fruit that I ever had " . |
| 17 | Since then my sales and marketing career has given me opportunities to meet people , handle interesting products and also do a lot of travelling . |
| 18 | ‘ Which has given me time to realise that the way I 've outlined is the way it has to be . |
| 19 | It has given me time to sort out my priorities , ’ said Bishop Daly ( 59 ) . |
| 20 | The siege has given them publicity for their ideas , of course , but what they really want , to save Liam 's life , is something quite different . |
| 21 | Pat Nevin 's signing has given them balance with a two wingers system that is committed to attacking . |
| 22 | They go to Phoenix on Saturday to play a team which has given them trouble in the past . |
| 23 | But despite the laugh it has given us girlies at the expense of the hairy brigade , the material has its disadvantages . |
| 24 | Lawrence has given us something we could not easily get otherwise : he has given us thought spoken as language . |
| 25 | ‘ This result of this case has given us hope and will give us confidence in bringing more investigations to the fore . |
| 26 | Every day she has given us hemp for our nests . " |
| 27 | It has given us experts , not wise men . ’ |
| 28 | Two areas of France dominate French bikesport — the Auvergne area , which has produced Christian and Dominique Sarron , Morillas and 1982 250 world champ Jean Louis Tournadre , and the Cote d'Azur , which has given us Raymond Roche , Jean Francois Balde and Ruggia — and these local heroes love to get together in the winter for fun and games . |
| 29 | We have an Academic Advisory Group , chaired by Lord Lewis , which has given us access to professional expertise at the highest level . |
| 30 | Though by nature we Gentiles are ‘ without Christ , aliens from the commonwealth of Israel , strangers from the covenant of promise , having no hope and without God in the world ’ , the Holy Spirit has given us access , through Christ 's self-sacrifice for us ( Eph. 2:12–18 ) . |