Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy was aware that many of her sayings were threadbare , she had heard them many times before , but as the comedian said , it was n't what as said , it was the way it was told . |
| 2 | It was an unexpected rest and it has taught me many things , like patience . ’ |
| 3 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 4 | The sport has also given me many friends . |
| 5 | ‘ Richard has also given me many opportunities and without him and Peter my life as a freelance jockey would be made just that little bit more difficult . ’ |
| 6 | Simply to say ‘ I was going to speak to you about a wonderfully deserving and little-known charity but the producers have only given me twenty-two seconds because they 're cutting straight to a sponsored lard-slice in Abergavenny , so I wo n't . ’ |
| 7 | That 's given me all sorts of things has it ? |
| 8 | ‘ Only one , ’ said Ken , ‘ and that was n't because I forgot it : it was because they 'd given me bad directions . ’ |
| 9 | Dr Cassidy put forward fairly Burmin 's assertions that gold mining on Croagh Patrick would in no way interfere with the pilgrimage : ‘ I say in all fairness that should planning permission for mining ever be granted Burmin have given me repeated assurances that there will be no interference with the Pilgrim Path , there would be no interference with Patrick 's Peak or that particular part of the mountain range . ’ |
| 10 | Right okay if it was X cubed that would have given me three times too much |
| 11 | He 's given me three dates when he 'd be delighted to meet us erm Friday the thirtieth of April , four of May or fifth of May , but other dates a as necessary . |
| 12 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 13 | The doctors had given me strict orders to keep warm while I was recuperating and there was no heating at all in the house , ’ said Mrs Easby . |
| 14 | It may not apply to anything but I know in the past when she 's given me those things to try erm she 's got a book at home and it 'll say erm particular |
| 15 | During that journey I had only travelled among the Adoimara , and at Bilen they had given me alarming accounts of the ferocity of the Asaimara in Bahdu . |
| 16 | You ai n't given me any tickets lately . |
| 17 | My local police force has given me remarkable examples of young people in the south Wales constabulary area who have persistently reoffended . |
| 18 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 19 | It is common for students to return to a part that has given them many ideas , and to rework a passage fruitfully . |
| 20 | I can write , you know you 've given them middle names , you know , that suitable middle names |
| 21 | That 's it an approved credit guideline and er that is the problem at the moment that the approved er credit guideline for the non T S G schemes is really insufficient and is having to be propped up er from elsewhere within the budget , your Chairman yesterday met with the er gentleman er the suited gentleman from Bedford and , and er having er given them appropriate cups of coffee er , impressed upon them that the er the one point two was really insufficient for one or two million er , er credit approvals was really insufficient for the needs of Suffolk and er they went away did they not Chairman saying that they er appreciated the point whether you had success or not or perhaps to er wait until December ? |
| 22 | Since the 1920s women have been free of the burden of high fertility which previously would have given them young children to cope with for more than two decades of their adult life . |
| 23 | I mean Jim was saying that Winston has given them two weeks off so |
| 24 | The segregation of servants from the family had already begun at Coleshill , the ancestor of the Palladian houses of the eighteenth century , where Roger Pratt , who believed that a house should be ‘ so contrived … that the ordinary servants may never publicly appear in passing to and from for their occasions there ’ , had given them separate rooms , adjacent to their masters , so that they no longer slept at his door or at the foot of his bed . |
| 25 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
| 26 | But , in changing direction , the hurricane had given them ten minutes of further respite . |
| 27 | We 've had times when we 've written to commercials and given them free tickets to dig ourselves out of a hole and things . |
| 28 | Wild Country have totally redesigned their Gore-Tex mountain mitts , given them non-slip palms and added some technical , sticky gloves inside ! |
| 29 | Robin and Patsy Dunbar ( 1975 ) have developed my pioneering studies of gelada baboons in Ethiopia ( 1966 ) through detailed analyses of interactions within harems in the natural habitat . |
| 30 | For instance , when I first started writing , and had completed my first novels , I was not allowed to sign a contract for it . |