Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To simplify his thoughts he had listed them under two headings : first there was that which directly affected Belpan . |
| 2 | We 've heard them so many times that they 've ceased to have any effect . |
| 3 | The last year has taught me how little I really knew about what goes on behind the wrought-iron gates of Buckingham Palace and the red brick walls of Kensington Palace . |
| 4 | I decided to work with the market women 's organization , ASUTRAMES , because my mother had a market stall and I would help her , and because the community had taught me how important it was to claim our rights . |
| 5 | I know I 've made a lot of mistakes and there are probably a lot of things I should be sorry about but I would n't change my life , I would make the same mistakes because they 've taught me so much . |
| 6 | given me about eight |
| 7 | So all together given me about five pounds . |
| 8 | Oh yes , he 's given me too many at once , thank you very much |
| 9 | My preference is for the bigger man yet Andy Robinson has given me more difficult games that any other opponent . |
| 10 | PAMELA : Why sir , you have given me so many pleasant distinctions for a Monday — let it , I pray you , be Monday next . |
| 11 | He has remarked , ‘ No other phase of my academic life has given me so much pleasure and instruction . ’ |
| 12 | My wife , Jane , and close friends were all at Manchester Airport to meet me on my return from France and waiting at home were my mother , more friends , half of Sheffield United FC and Willie Thorne , whose friendship has given me so much confidence . |
| 13 | ‘ The Liverpool club has given me so much , including in private ways , ’ he said . |
| 14 | And telling you about Peter 's gambling has given me so much more strength . |
| 15 | She has given me so much happiness . |
| 16 | The eyes alone could never have given me so profound a sense of Spring , of Maytime and the blossoming of hawthorn upon the heaths and wild cherry at the border of the beech copses . |
| 17 | Stu , I mean I live in Glasgow , the chances of me leaving Glasgow are pro , pre pretty slim but yeah , I certainly do n't want to stay in Scotland because of any loyalty , that I do n't think it 's given me very much other than a lot of experience , a lot of struggle , a lot of opportunities to stand alongside working class people and fight against , you know , the injustices . |
| 18 | ‘ At the time , you remember , you 'd given me very little information to go on . |
| 19 | Despite the December 1990 agreement on the division of powers between the federal government and the country 's two constituent republics [ see p. 37922 ] , calls for greater autonomy and independence had continued to grow in Slovakia , and Meciar had given them increasingly explicit support , setting up an office of foreign affairs ( headed by his close ally Milan Knazno ) and leading Slovak delegations abroad . |
| 20 | We 've just given them so much bloody and if your houses are in bad condition go to your council ! |
| 21 | I 'll , I 'll get you some in a minute , er , I 'll carry on if er , if er , you do n't mind I 've got , oh here we are , I fo , I had n't given them out sorry . |
| 22 | He stubbed out his cigarette , smoothed his already immaculate hair . |
| 23 | Well we 're not having much joy with these people from I mean I 've rung them about four times in the last er week . |
| 24 | Some cursed fraud of enemy hath beguiled thee yet unknown , and me with thee hath ruined , for with thee certain my resolution is to die . |
| 25 | If that was the Big Time , it would n't have impressed them too much — the journey would have seemed like an eternity . |
| 26 | Clough said : ‘ Gary has impressed me very much in the month he has spent with us so far . |
| 27 | Battles had begun to be much more dispersed affairs , but the internal-combustion engine had not yet scattered them over hundreds of miles . |
| 28 | You 've caught me out this time . |
| 29 | Absorbed in the painting , their ears had n't caught his almost silent approach through the open door . |
| 30 | Are you trying to say I should have trusted you over all those … those … betrayals ? ’ |