Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody had apparently given her the matchbook and she had been carrying it around with her ever since . ’ |
| 2 | I thought it was very unfortunate that Catherine had only given him a daughter , not a son . |
| 3 | Yes , but I 've , I 've only given him a lump figure you see . |
| 4 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 5 | ‘ If you had only given us the Law : Dayenu ! … |
| 6 | But they would have only given you a book for |
| 7 | He is well liked and sticks to his brief come what may — a tactic that has rightly earned him the nickname of the ’ Bardic steamroller ’ . |
| 8 | The beauty of its setting and its predominantly stone buildings , allied with its intellectual traditions , have justly earned it the title of ‘ Athens of the North ’ . |
| 9 | Wherever it was , Roe apparently considered it an obstacle to his plans , and he indicated his intention of writing to Wilson offering that man a share , in consideration of relinquishing his rights and transferring these to the Macclesfield company . |
| 10 | You 'd only seen me a couple of times , and then you were n't exactly falling over yourself to speak to me ! ’ she spat back . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I 've only done it a couple of times as you know . |
| 12 | Of all the people in the world to expose her seething mass of fears and insecurities to , Guy Sterne would have been her last choice … yet she 'd told him about Mortimer , she 'd carelessly made him a gift of her virginity , she 'd wildly announced she loved him , and now she was baring her soul over the painful anguish of her mother 's death … |
| 13 | Even in rugby , the Afrikaners ' passion , the formation of a single non-racial administrative body is imminent ; the octogenarian rugby boss , Danie Craven , has long thought it a game for robust men of all races , and in 1988 angered Mr de Klerk by sending an emissary to contact , among others , the African National Congress — one of whose leaders is now working to dismantle the boycott . |
| 14 | People have wrongly called it a microprocessor , when that really should be restricted to the processing unit itself rather than the complete microcomputer . |
| 15 | Before she quite knew what hit her , Mandy had informed Charity that she had personally landed her a job as a cocktail waitress on the outdoor patio — the Susweca Lounge — at the lodge . |
| 16 | ‘ They 're a good twenty years younger , and they 've only known them a year or two . |
| 17 | He has only expressed what a lot of other people have been starting to fear for a long time , that unless the commercial manipulators in tennis are careful , they could cook the golden goose . |
| 18 | Historians have long debated what the Globe looked like . |
| 19 | which effectively determined this case in the courts below and it is the law as so stated which the appellant prosecutor now challenges as an unwarranted judicial gloss upon the statutory language , as opposed to a legitimate construction of it . |
| 20 | Supporters have only read what the press have said . |
| 21 | Then he discovers the bar owner doubles up as the town sheriff and that gunman Lyle has just given him a lift . |
| 22 | He had just given her a triumph and had got no more reaction than if he had held a door open for her . |
| 23 | I 'm going tomorrow morning there anyway cos Roy 's just given me a call , they 've got some problems with screw support bearings locking up , but er I 'll go over there some time |
| 24 | So you 're feeling relaxed and comfortable and good because you 're telling me , you know , what a great tennis player I am and I really enjoy it , you 've just given me a couple of names that I 'll either make a note of or I 'll say that 's interesting cos I actually deal with Joe on a business relationship anyway erm maybe we could meet some other people from the tennis club , self employed people , professional people such as yourself , who might be interested in looking at financial planning but today I 'm more interested in talking about you Bill , erm we 'll come back to them a bit later if I may so let's press on . |
| 25 | Jane Daly has just given me a copy of the new Capital Equipment RTP forms . |
| 26 | Flaubert was delighted with the story : ‘ Do you know , Lapierre , you 've just given me the subject of a novel , the counterpart of my Bovary , a Bovary of high society . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've just given you a job to do . |
| 28 | oh yes he said I 've worked it out those extra hours I 've paid you for them but I thought you actually worked for them for nothing and I 've just given you a bonus |
| 29 | We have just given you an example of a typical dieter 's antecedent events , leading to the breaking of the diet . |
| 30 | Each of us carries an unreliable ankle for instance , and Tony had just given his a jolt . |