Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament has expressly given him power to intervene when the local authority is acting unreasonably . |
| 2 | The Foreign Office had only given him permission to join the Army on the understanding that he would return to Abyssinia when his leave expired . |
| 3 | It might well be argued that the USM , now containing some 900 companies with a market capitalisation of less than £50m , has long outlived it usefulness . |
| 4 | They 're our only family now — he has only brought us shame . ’ |
| 5 | After the auction Joint Services Public Relations , HQ British Forces Cyprus have thoughtfully sent us information about those recently retired Shakletons . |
| 6 | From what the Nilsen girl has just told me Garau is our missing link , and with him in prison they 're in too tight a corner . |
| 7 | I 've already told you Lori is just someone I know , and has nothing to do with any of this , ’ she countered . |
| 8 | I 've just had me house decorated and I 'm seriously thinking of becoming a serial killer of bleeding workmen , I think they 're a bleeding disgrace . |
| 9 | This makes it empiricist in a very sharp and disputable form , which has lately cost it allegiance even among most other empiricists . |
| 10 | ‘ I have made no provision for my son Robert other than the bequest of £100 because he has been the recipient of my bounty during my lifetime and has nevertheless caused me sorrow and trouble on numerous occasions . ‘ |
| 11 | ‘ I see a lot more than you 've ever given me credit for ! ’ he retorted curtly . |
| 12 | He has only ever given me encouragement and support . ’ |
| 13 | That 's the last thing you 've ever done you cunt . |
| 14 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
| 15 | Sammy Wilson , the DUP press officer , dissociated the party from Seawright 's remarks : ‘ The DUP has always made it crystal clear — as Protestants we believe in civil and religious liberty for all men , and no one should be persecuted for their religious beliefs . |
| 16 | When had she ever shown him pity ? |
| 17 | It was the first time he 'd ever called me sweetie . |
| 18 | And if you have once demonstrated you skill at copying chairs , you can get on with meeting all the requests you will surely have from family and friends . |
| 19 | It obviously recognized him as the only being that had ever showed it kindness . |
| 20 | The long birdie putt Beck had earlier holed for an eagle three at the 13th had been a turning point , but for Norman , who does not normally play the week before the Masters , this must have also given him encouragement . |
| 21 | The death of his beloved grandfather had brought him misery but , at the same time , it had also given him strength . |
| 22 | Women have also brought him trouble . |
| 23 | On July 13 another five Cubans were turned away after they had broken into the residence of the Czechoslovak chargé d'affaires and temporarily taken him hostage . |
| 24 | Professor MacFee had read it had been startled by its undoubted merit , and had carefully discussed it chapter by chapter with him , suggesting how to improve it . |
| 25 | They 've mostly brought me unhappiness . |
| 26 | I have found that erm it seems basically to be a very pessimistic kind of fiction , more pessimistic than people have often given it credit for , largely because they tend to see , for example in Dashiell Hammett , who 's the author I 'm most interested in from this period , erm a precursor of a lot of heroes , private eyes , who were said to have a very kind of steely moral integrity , which they balance against a general corruption in the world outside , and it does seem to me that in fact with Hammett the detective mirrors the corruption of that world as much as he stands against it , so that it does seem to me rather pessimistic . |
| 27 | Father Fitzpatrick told mourners at St Mary 's Church in Rasharkin : ‘ You , who are of the parish , have often heard me say that the spirit of evil — the devil — is rampant in this world of ours . |
| 28 | She had n't really given him time to explain , just looked at that horrible creature prancing about in the hall all sexed up , and assumed the worst . |
| 29 | Bruckner was 39 and in the process of shaking the dust off a provincial career that had so far brought him distinction only as an organist and as a craftsman-composer of the old school . |
| 30 | It has often caused them embarrassment . |