Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [verb] [pers pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This result of this case has given us hope and will give us confidence in bringing more investigations to the fore . |
| 2 | ‘ The case has given us confidence in bringing more investigations to the fore , ’ said Mr Fox . |
| 3 | Dehomosexualisation of AIDS has cost us dear , in both our caring and our campaigning . |
| 4 | The study has helped me focus on my strengths and weaknesses in the management of the school and hopefully will encourage me to respond appropriately . |
| 5 | The cultivation of the mind entails giving it freedom to soar like a bird into the mind 's sky . |
| 6 | Clive Exton 's determined melding of two separate Jeeves stories per episode continues to give me trouble , but last night it achieved a climax worthy of the original as the straw-boatered burghers from Birdsburg queued to press the flesh of the plethoric Dook of Chis-wick . |
| 7 | Her love for her child has given him comfort and helped him forget his pain . |
| 8 | Eventually Friedmaier is captured by the occupying forces , tortured and killed , but not before his silent suffering has earned him redemption . |
| 9 | The siege has given them publicity for their ideas , of course , but what they really want , to save Liam 's life , is something quite different . |
| 10 | Elizabeth and Helen 's initial experience of life in the community has brought them unhappiness and difficulties . |
| 11 | And yet in the intensity of their feeling , mixed with memories of early youth , there is a beauty — and the author has spared them sordidness , one feels , by never letting their love run its full course . |
| 12 | Born in Hawick , he was a late starter in photography , having worked for several years with a water board , but his eye for a picture has brought him distinction on numerous occasions . |
| 13 | 1988 the Reina Sofía tries to clarify it mission : works are to come from the Museo Español de arte contemporaneo ( MEAC ) , to be joined with the modern holdings of the Prado , including ‘ Guernica ’ ( see p. 19 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Gordon wants to give you piano lessons , ’ he told Tony . |
| 15 | Having these money advice officers does save us money , it reduces our rent arrears on our housing revenue account . |
| 16 | My manager has given me permission for me to use the shop foyer for a whole day and I hope to get local radio and local papers to advertise the sale for me . |
| 17 | But if Abraham 's trust has gone , God has given him cause . |
| 18 | But this implies that the world is an entity other than God and God has given it freedom and thus the possibility of ‘ going wrong ’ , of producing evil , sin , pain and suffering , whatever explanation we may try to give of how such things have come about — at least they are only too obvious in the world we know . |
| 19 | ‘ For your information , I 've still got most of my own teeth and only have to use a walking frame when it 's damp and my arthritis starts giving me gyp . |
| 20 | The best preserved of all , beautiful and often illustrated , shows Herakles supporting the sky while Atlas brings him the golden apples and Athena prepares to help them exchange roles.93 This comes from the east end and conforms strictly to pattern : figures ranged against the flat ground , in simple postures , frontal or profile . |
| 21 | ‘ That wanker 's poached me bird , that 's what . ’ |
| 22 | Success has brought them confidence and confidence is what brings success . ’ |
| 23 | The Union has brought us strength both economically and politically . |
| 24 | Though by nature we Gentiles are ‘ without Christ , aliens from the commonwealth of Israel , strangers from the covenant of promise , having no hope and without God in the world ’ , the Holy Spirit has given us access , through Christ 's self-sacrifice for us ( Eph. 2:12–18 ) . |
| 25 | Erm so , in principle we 've agreed that schedule , er I 'm waiting for erm Bob to sort V I out and the name erm as you may be aware erm Bob wants to call it client servicing and our view was that by and large it was n't a question of having to have loads more different screens we just needed them in different areas and they could , they 'd go to Louise to get where people were going to be and it 's mostly about the R S six thousand for commission erm on which there are only about twenty of those anyway , twenty seven so I did n't really see that as being a major issue . |
| 26 | The firm 's given us notice of this . |
| 27 | ‘ My first priority is to feed my wife and two children , but the German win has given me respite of about 13 months to consider medals rather than money . |
| 28 | The National Art Collections Fund has begun it autumn lecture series , The Discerning Eye : Collectors and Connoisseurs , taking place on Tuesday evenings at the Royal Geographic Society , Kensington Gore , London . |
| 29 | Zero has brought us killer Japanese grooves , Mo Wax chose to launch on a NYC tip , and Germany 's funking along pretty nicely too . |
| 30 | Besides , our first patient has brought us luck . |