Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or what he thought had happened inside his head , for those at the hospital who were supposed to know told him the brain scan showed nothing untoward . |
| 2 | ‘ I would have preferred to have given them a run chase but I then decided we had to be positive and get whatever we could out of the match , ’ said Moxon . |
| 3 | Where the two offices were united in one structure , Angell and Pownall seem to have given them an equal place on the Foreign Office and War Department lists , no doubt thinking that the implementation of the project would be considerably easier if the same architect were carrying out both offices . |
| 4 | His attempt to murder her seemed to have given him a new strength in the relationship . |
| 5 | However , his blazing indignation appears to have given him a nasty dose of alliterative-itis in a NUPE press release condemning the report as ‘ more market madness mirroring the mayhem in the mines ’ . |
| 6 | His parents seemed to have given him every encouragement and his first poems were imitations of his father 's songs . |
| 7 | My astonishment in coming here is to see these later pictures of his , although I always associate Basil with being a very competent , sensitive , and a typical Euston Road type of painter , I do think his association with the North seems to have done something incredible , and these later water colours , with their tremendous feeling for " wind and Yorkshire weather " seem to have given him an absolutely different and much more mature outlook . |
| 8 | Years of the language battle seemed to have given me an inner eye . |
| 9 | So I ask you to be open minded they may seem a little bit off the wall to start with , but everything that we do is done for a purpose to achieve er what we 're wanting to achieve and what I do want to achieve is by the end of tomorrow is to have given you a system . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , owing to some inexplicable negligence , ’ — he sighed and shook his head — ‘ they seem to have given us the slip . ’ |
| 11 | And the law of probability seemed , for once , to have slipped up , and to have permitted her a striking piece of good luck . |
| 12 | It seems to have done them no harm , presented them with no discernible limitations in the scope of their work or influence . |
| 13 | The same year ( 1017 ) he married Emma , herself a generous giver to churches , whose previous experience as Æthelred 's wife ought to have made her a fount of good advice on English churches and churchmen and how they were best dealt with . |
| 14 | That 's enough for the I R A to have made him a target , five employees of the firm have now been killed since nineteen eighty five . |
| 15 | The since Terry took over the ground everything 's been refurbished and new crush rails put up you know , and he seems to have made it a good ground . |
| 16 | ‘ I think she ought … to have told him the truth — or else refused him … |
| 17 | He evidently led musicians on with false promises : a long letter from the cellist Carlo Graziani details amounts owing and favours not forthcoming ( Giardini seems to have promised him a place in the Queen 's Band , though it is highly unlikely that he would have had such influence ) . |
| 18 | John Major is understood to have offered her a junior minister 's job at the Home Office , but she turned it down on the grounds that it was not sufficiently senior . |
| 19 | I said there was no need to have got him a plate . |
| 20 | At Balliol , where the prevailing Broad Church theology was quite counter to his own , he studied with a succession of brilliant tutors , who recognized the independent , unconventional cast of his mind ; Benjamin Jowett [ q.v. ] was reputed ( probably wrongly ) to have called him the star of Balliol . |
| 21 | He was supposed to have called her a cow , or something worse , and she had slapped his face , at which , according to George , he had returned the blow . |
| 22 | I ought to have brought you a bit more up-to-date with the current situation as far as CVs are concerned here . |
| 23 | Erm , it does seem to be something of a contradiction in terms there , and in fact Mr Lock is n't here today because his clients have subsequently withdrawn from the er E I P but er it would have been interesting to have asked him the question . |
| 24 | One way or another , you seem to have cost me a great deal . |
| 25 | Some Tory loyalist backbenchers said last night that this episode could not be compared to the attack on Mrs Thatcher by the then Sir Geoffrey Howe , which is acknowledged to have cost her the keys to No. 10 . |
| 26 | He still felt ill , but the hysterics seemed to have relaxed him a bit . |