Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He offers them another unsettling peacemaking idea ; they invent another excuse for turning it down . |
| 2 | ABOVE As time went by , more and more people started bringing me injured birds to look after . |
| 3 | For instance , Denis Hamilton — a totally fair journalist , but an incorrigible Conservative — came to see me one day to warn me that The Times was prepared to break the newspaper silence that had until then , with the exception of Private Eye , been maintained by all news sources about her two illegitimate children . |
| 4 | Now they have brought forward a plan which is that they should lend me sufficient money to rent another house in which Mr Landor is to have the first floor , comprising three rooms , a book closet , and a terrace , and I am to reside on the ground floor and care for him receiving £30 a year for my trouble . |
| 5 | Several states had passed restrictive laws since the Supreme Court 's 1989 ruling allowing them greater opportunity to limit the availability of abortion ( in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services — see pp. 36809-10 ) . |
| 6 | The marvellous thing about basic cheap ottomans is that you can paint them any colour to match the prevailing decor of the room and you can cover the lid with padded material , or even carpet , to make a seat . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , we the wise , to quote Erving Goffman ( 1963 ) are allowed increasing manpower to pursue the cannabis/hallucinogenic using folk devil and to present the incompetent and the inept from the hippie element to the courts and the public for their solace ; and to assure them that drug taking is being stamped out . |
| 8 | My American agent once got me some stuff placed in Reader 's Digest . ’ |
| 9 | Just take a look got me little list knocking round . |
| 10 | Yes , if you would please Do n't eat them all Daddy wants some . |
| 11 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
| 12 | In a world of fast transport and high mobility , working for an international company has given me much opportunity to travel , particularly in europe , the United States and the Far East . |
| 13 | But when we arrived home , we found the stranger had given me two pound notes as well as the coin . |
| 14 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | You 've given me enough food to keep me alive and Cousin Genti 's cast-off clothing , seeing we 're the same size . |
| 18 | ‘ Nobody 's ever happy when they 're on the bench , but it 's given me some time to get my mind right again . |
| 19 | Would it be a proper recognition of the quality of their teaching and administrative staff to accept their judgment of academic standards absolutely and make them mature degree awarding bodies ? |
| 20 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |
| 21 | Instead of going home to forget he took BR to court , having given them ample opportunity to avoid proceedings , and won . |
| 22 | For example , they have argued against almost every EC directive which would have improved women 's poor position in the work force , increased their opportunities and given them increased freedom to work . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Did you have a — ? ’ good trip , Leith might have said , but as if thinking he 'd given them enough time to sort themselves out , Naylor was butting in , and positively flabbergasting her by what he chose to interrupt with ! |
| 25 | We 've had times when we 've written to commercials and given them free tickets to dig ourselves out of a hole and things . |
| 26 | I do not think that the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central , his hon. Friends or the majority of my hon. Friends would say that the Government were wrong , rather than giving no status to people who have been in this country for a number of years , to have given them exceptional leave to remain . |
| 27 | As a gift to the family , Wimpey Homes has given them some furniture to help make their new house feel more like home . |
| 28 | The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit . |
| 29 | And send me greate crymes to investygate : |
| 30 | Probably you could buy them some stores have them for maybe a week or so . |