Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or to put it another way , let us see how badly Miss Honey has taught you the three-times table . ’ |
| 2 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Secretary has given them the figures on investment in this country and they are rather good . |
| 3 | Microsoft has given it the thumbs up for Windows NT . |
| 4 | In a public statement he agreed meekly that ‘ the resolution has shown us the goals towards which we need to strive to serve the Soviet people better ’ . |
| 5 | Note that the package will not be prepared until LIFESPAN has shown you the lists of modules and DCs and you have answered the appropriate question . |
| 6 | We 'd given you the activities to do there so you could find the output of them . |
| 7 | He 'd taught her the tricks of his trade until by her own account she was better at it than he was . |
| 8 | There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep . |
| 9 | ‘ Come to think of it I 'd have given you the oranges even if you 'd said no . ’ |
| 10 | The small but select entry includes Carl 's Choice , several times a winner on this track , and Sneakapenny , whose last fence blunder at Garthorpe last weekend may have cost him the Men 's Open there . |
| 11 | At the other end the Vice-President of the United States of America used language for several minutes that would have lost him the votes of the Moral Majority , had those good citizens had the opportunity to hear him . |
| 12 | Some Tory loyalist backbenchers said last night that this episode could not be compared to the attack on Mrs Thatcher by the then Sir Geoffrey Howe , which is acknowledged to have cost her the keys to No. 10 . |
| 13 | They 've given you the clefs . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've given you the facts , gentlemen ; you ca n't expect me to do your embroidery for you . ’ |
| 15 | When he had given her the keys and the egg , and had left her , she first put the egg away with great care , and then examined the house , and at last went into the forbidden room . |
| 16 | She remembered how he had given her the creeps . |
| 17 | Then , too , she had felt rather shy of him since Christmas when he had given her the violets and had tried not to encourage his obvious interest in her . |
| 18 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |
| 19 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 20 | He had never forgotten the day in the bide shed when Nutty had told him the horses were going back to the knacker 's , and the fearful panic that had exploded inside him , worse than any brushes with the police or his father , worse than anything he could ever remember . |
| 21 | They had told him the chaprassi would want a bribe , but instructed him not to pay it . |
| 22 | She had told me the tunnels had now been connected up and the workmen used the subway constantly as a private short cut . |
| 23 | I 've told you the ones I know . |
| 24 | ‘ And I 've told you the options , Mr Garland . |
| 25 | I 've told you the terms : you are bed and board , as the saying goes , nothing more . |
| 26 | He said his experience as president of Youth Clubs UK which looks after around one million youngsters in Britain , had shown him the pressures faced by young people today . |
| 27 | I 've brought him the programs he asked for . ’ |
| 28 | But yesterday Mr and Mrs Lewis said they were disgusted at the situation , which had left them the victims . |
| 29 | Erm er this o this one is not one single job as it happens but it is the kind of thing that we have come up against before and I 've put them the things together in one so that we do n't identify people really under the circumstances . |
| 30 | If they had questioned it the chances of the orders being carried out would 've been much less of course . |