Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deny them this participation of freedom , and you break that sole bond which originally made , and must still preserve , the unity of the empire . |
| 2 | Many people feared involvement in popular education because it made them immediate targets of the Contras . ’ |
| 3 | But the sheer range and volume of business with which the secretaries of state dealt made them important officers of government . |
| 4 | The Central Area pulled all these parts together , as it were , and made them interdependent portions of the whole . |
| 5 | That would make me some kind of accessory after the fact , would n't it ? ’ |
| 6 | To realise that a crippled leg does n't make me some sort of oddity . |
| 7 | As they sat in the kitchen , Jonadab glanced across at George and remarked , ‘ While we 're a bit slack afore haytime starts , Aah thought as 'ow thoo and me could deliver them two pairs of shires ti Stephen 's . ’ |
| 8 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 9 | ‘ Bring me another cup of coffee , ’ she called to Cat . |
| 10 | That 's given me all sorts of things has it ? |
| 11 | During that journey I had only travelled among the Adoimara , and at Bilen they had given me alarming accounts of the ferocity of the Asaimara in Bahdu . |
| 12 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 13 | My local police force has given me remarkable examples of young people in the south Wales constabulary area who have persistently reoffended . |
| 14 | How far this will work depends on how far we can inject into cross-curricular work the essence of our ideas and make them genuine focuses of our work ( and not peripheral elements ) . |
| 15 | ‘ First make me another cup of tea and hand me my knitting . ’ |
| 16 | That 's it an approved credit guideline and er that is the problem at the moment that the approved er credit guideline for the non T S G schemes is really insufficient and is having to be propped up er from elsewhere within the budget , your Chairman yesterday met with the er gentleman er the suited gentleman from Bedford and , and er having er given them appropriate cups of coffee er , impressed upon them that the er the one point two was really insufficient for one or two million er , er credit approvals was really insufficient for the needs of Suffolk and er they went away did they not Chairman saying that they er appreciated the point whether you had success or not or perhaps to er wait until December ? |
| 17 | But , in changing direction , the hurricane had given them ten minutes of further respite . |
| 18 | Yachting World readers are being offered a 10 per cent discount on the price of the service , providing they send them this page of Yachting World . |
| 19 | She owes me two quid of this money . |
| 20 | I 've done nothing to deserve all your vicious insinuations — neither with Richard , nor with Adam , and if you ca n't bring yourself to believe in me the least you could do would be to grant them some scrap of integrity . ’ |
| 21 | It cost me two years of impoverishment , spending every dime on legal fees . |
| 22 | Notwithstanding the fact that this amount of money would buy you any amount of glossy varnish , cheap gold plating , plastic pearl and flamed-maple veneer , these German-made acoustics appear exceptional value . |
| 23 | has she any intentions of working ? |
| 24 | If a guy owes you that sort of money , you do not squash him with your car . |
| 25 | I think the family managed to find him some kind of posting in a province in the north-west , towards the Land of the Twin Rivers . |
| 26 | I was trying to find him some couple of pairs of socks but I could n't find anything I liked . |
| 27 | It was likely , more than likely , that Alan Markby might buy her some kind of Christmas present . |
| 28 | She tried to speak , but the effort cost her another mouthful of water . |
| 29 | The only comic note was struck by two escaping prisoners , handcuffed to each other , legging it either side of a lamp post , a way to make little progress . |
| 30 | Has he any evidence of a decrease in church-going , an increase in marital break-up or an increase in the number of complaints to industrial tribunals by women who are asked to work on Sunday against their will ? |