Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ARSENAL boss George Graham last night blasted his multi-million pound stars for squandering the qualities which made them giants of English football . |
| 2 | Five or six in one part of the hall would create a din , and when Blackshirt stewards approached to eject them scores of Red colleagues would arise to join in the battle . |
| 3 | The teacher had given them bricks of different widths . |
| 4 | I used to find it kind of funny . |
| 5 | All the youths seemed interested , so I told them stories of Black Magic in Sussex , a county particularly afflicted by Satan because of all the artistic people who live there , running craft shops or theatrical costumiers . |
| 6 | He would show them examples of different sorts of pages and wait until they found one they liked . |
| 7 | This would give him control of editorial policy . |
| 8 | Appoint him editor of Practical Fishkeeping ? |
| 9 | Firstly , in the last decade it has consistently met it aim of improving profits and earnings per share by at least 20 per cent a year . |
| 10 | As artists , we have seen shifts int he boundaries of public and private , high and low , inaccessible and accessible and , indeed , even personal and political but the influences of past feminist art practices on these moves is very rarely acknowledged . |
| 11 | Given the horrific effects which are bound to be visited upon the countries of Eastern Europe in the event of a prolonged conflict , the Warsaw Pact 's non-Soviet members may be disinclined to resist he logic of Soviet strategy . |
| 12 | In studying Epicurus , Gassendi found confirmation for the embryonic idea of the Exercises , that sense-experience might give us something worthwhile and valuable even though it can not give us knowledge of necessary causes and of the natures of things . |
| 13 | So , the play of party politics at the ballot box may give us interludes of constitutional peace , but we can not escape the fact that the British constitution is still up for grabs , in politics , and on the agenda for change . |
| 14 | The information we gather will give us months of future material to work from — there will be opportunities both indoors and out to expand our notes into larger works if we wish . |
| 15 | I just want to read three anecdotes which , and I mean I 've given you sort of odd statistics and the advantage of anecdotes is that they actually put flesh on the bones I think , and they really give you a sense of what it meant to be er a peasant in China in the nineteen thirties . |
| 16 | He shows me charts of average weight and height , because now he is working on his motorbike , going from door to door selling insurance policies , and they use the charts to decide whether someone is at risk of a heart attack . |
| 17 | you get tucked into it , and obviously there we 'll keep it sort of low profile . |
| 18 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 19 | Telescopes such as the orbiting Einstein X-ray observatory and the Merlin array of radio telescopes centred on Jodrell Bank give us views of celestial objects as detailed as optical telescopes can show ( New Scientist , vol 93 , p 720 and vol 96 , p 442 ) . |
| 20 | I fed them plates of baked beans ; squeezed oranges , bandaged knees , bowled cricket balls , ran beside tottering bicycles , read nonsense poems at bedtime , baked wholemeal bread , earthed up King Edward potatoes in the garden . |
| 21 | By involving everyone , the teacher included certain children who were frequently excluded from spontaneous groups , to give them experience of cooperative work . |
| 22 | And it comes complete with a stereo radio/cassette player to give you years of happy motoring … |
| 23 | At the end of the day , a camcorder with sound , basic design is going to give you years of creative pleasure , even if it does n't have all the latest sales gimmicks ! |
| 24 | Take them back to the stall and get him pair of woolly ones come on . |
| 25 | We used to get help from the Co-ops because they used to give us lists of new members and we used to be able to canvass those . |
| 26 | Servitors took our wet clothing and served us cups of mulled wine , followed by earthenware bowls full of a meaty soup which warmed our hands and removed the chill from our stomachs . |
| 27 | tosses them manna of sliced bread , |
| 28 | On another key organization matter , Gorbachev managed to secure rejection of a proposal that the mandates of the congress delegates should be extended for five years ( thus giving them control of extraordinary congresses or conferences called in the period before the next scheduled congress ) . |
| 29 | We finish this chapter by giving you examples of nutritious , well-balanced , easy meals . |
| 30 | I just said it , I 'm saying it end of dual carriageway |