Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their tactical naivety and non-dynamic ‘ donkeys-and-backs ’ approach made them no match for the super-fit ‘ new age ’ stars from Down Under . |
| 2 | The prestigious Wedgwood name also made them a propaganda target for Hitler 's forces . |
| 3 | The government could pick up anyone they wanted and prosecute at their leisure , if we made them a present of all those names . |
| 4 | And he slept with me , he would n't go to sleep so I took them both downstairs , made them a drink , made them something to eat , come back to bed . |
| 5 | The sums so entrusted made them a power among London houses subscribing to public loans , particularly during the wars of 1744–63 . |
| 6 | Anyway , when the ambulance men came we made them a cup of tea , cos they said they a they 'd have been that busy they have n't had a break ! |
| 7 | So we made them a cup of tea and hopefully they were going to talk her into it . |
| 8 | There was the lure of the big stores , though clothing coupons and shortage of money made them a feast for the eye only . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's a tricky one to answer because the complexities are still there but we made them a lot more hidden . |
| 10 | The conduct of the foresters made them a by-word for oppression and extortion . |
| 11 | The Parrot was one of their more recent acquisitions , and when Huey made them an offer , they took it . |
| 12 | ‘ I think people get even angrier if they think about this precise thing that was done in their so-called formative years that made them the way they are . |
| 13 | In Germany , in July 1932 , the Nazi party won 230 seats in the Reichstag , which made them the majority party , although Adolph Hitler was not able to become the Chancellor until January 1933 . |
| 14 | Worse still , the new Leeds are as sly and provocative as Don Revie 's sides , with none of the skills which made them the Liverpool of the Seventies . |
| 15 | For the next three hours the motorbike led them a nightmare chase over more than a hundred kilometres of mountain roads that were often little more than channels covered by scree and loose gravel , furrowed by rain-water and ridged by surfacing strata of rock . |
| 16 | Then the local centre for the handicapped lent them a wheelchair , so they were able to get out and about . |
| 17 | There were few holidays , or trips to the famous surf of the Australian beaches , until friends of the family lent them a house by the sea in later years . |
| 18 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 19 | She lent me a couple of hundred quid because I was in financial difficulty . |
| 20 | Last summer one of my friends lent me a C.B. and an old aerial as he had bought a new set and some more of my friends had C.B.s . |
| 21 | When I showed her she lent me a silk shawl to drape round my shoulders and over my breasts . |
| 22 | I 'm just sorry the whole thing happened and the man who must be embarrassed about this most of all is sponsor Matt Laverty who lent me the bike on Thursday night at practice . ’ |
| 23 | She lent me the money to get my second bike — that Triumph Speed Twin : it had a lot of poke for the size . |
| 24 | I was short of a few quid to do anything about it so my mate lent me the money , we went to a scrap yard , picked up a spare and he delivered me back here in his motor , then your chaps picked me up . ’ |
| 25 | Ginny lent me The King Must Die . |
| 26 | We remain convinced that full merger is the best way forward and the amendment will e enable the project to make progress If the Lib Dems have changed their mind Chairman and do support the forthcoming Labour amendment erm th the worst aspect for me is that I 've lost a bet because Bob bet me a year ago that the Lib Dems would not last the distance and he 's been proved right . |
| 27 | ‘ I asked you a question , you asked me a question , but I did n't leap out of nowhere and start a fight , did I ? |
| 28 | ‘ Man asked me a question , did n't he ? |
| 29 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 30 | you asked me a question . |