Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABOVE As time went by , more and more people started bringing me injured birds to look after . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | You 've given me enough food to keep me alive and Cousin Genti 's cast-off clothing , seeing we 're the same size . |
| 11 | ‘ Nobody 's ever happy when they 're on the bench , but it 's given me some time to get my mind right again . |
| 12 | Instead of going home to forget he took BR to court , having given them ample opportunity to avoid proceedings , and won . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 16 | We 've had times when we 've written to commercials and given them free tickets to dig ourselves out of a hole and things . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As a gift to the family , Wimpey Homes has given them some furniture to help make their new house feel more like home . |
| 19 | The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit . |
| 20 | And send me greate crymes to investygate : |
| 21 | I 'm going to find me some controls to fly this thing . ’ |
| 22 | The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ? |
| 23 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |
| 24 | I now expect you young girls to keep bright and shining . |
| 25 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 26 | Havel asked the legislature to grant him broader powers to defuse the constitutional crisis . |
| 27 | ACE reached for her , his mouth closing over hers , denying her any chance to protest . |
| 28 | Maclean also concentrated on getting the ball past the talented Umar and denying him further chances to hit crisp drives into the nicks and towards difficult angles . |
| 29 | I thought only about my beautiful cat as the huge engines purred and the round wheels revolved enabling us two-legged people to journey in comparative comfort through the streets of London town ! ’ |
| 30 | She had not even phoned them that morning to explain her absence . |