Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing he seems to be good at is denigrating Labour , the party that brought him political prominence . |
| 2 | It was the Royal College for the Blind at Hereford that gave him new inspiration by teaching him how to sculpt . |
| 3 | Though the business was thriving , there was one aspect that gave him great concern and over which he was powerless to exercise any sort of control . |
| 4 | Recently , TCS entered into an agreement with Lotus Development Corporation that gave them exclusive distribution rights for the whole range of Recently there was uproar in India following ‘ body shopping ’ by American software firms . |
| 5 | Before entering battle , the warriors stripped to breech-cloth and moccasins , some donning war-bonnets , then prepared their medicine bundles and applied sacred body paint to invoke the Wyakin medicine powers that gave them supernatural protection . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , it was British fears that began the process of creating a political group ( rather than a religious one ) , and British political tactics to safeguard their continued power that gave it national significance . |
| 7 | Moments of panic in the national efficiency debate often orchestrated by the new popular press — enabled medics to dramatically represent their new scientific concepts in ways that gained them intellectual hegemony and popular credibility . |
| 8 | Lord Justice McCowan said he found it quite impossible to hold that Mr Hurd 's political judgment — that the appearance of terrorists on programmes increased their standing and lent them political legitimacy — was one that no reasonable home secretary could make . |
| 9 | He called Whittaker to his office the following Monday morning and made him chief trainer , waving aside protests of inexperience and of indignation at Hardy 's sacking . |
| 10 | To secure the services of Reeves-Smith , he purchased the Berkeley Hotel in 1900 and appointed him managing director of the Savoy Company . |
| 11 | Nor could he get the Scots and their French allies to the negotiating table ; the French publicly declared for the Scots , and promised them military help if they needed it . |
| 12 | They said we 'd receive eighty cents a day for six hours work and promised us good food , good houses to live in . |
| 13 | Since the Kaszubes lacked any political organisation or ambition and had no recognition for their language , hardly any literature of their own and barely any sense of a common Kaszubian identity , the Poles thought of the Kaszubians as a joke and paid them little heed . |
| 14 | Still holding the old man 's shirtfront , Ellwood yanked him back to the couch and threw him full length . |
| 15 | She stood up , smiling acidly , and bade him good day . |
| 16 | It appeared in WW for July 28 and August 4 , 1926 and owed it considerable success and subsequent fame to the new technique of neutralising the RF stage triode and to the use of an RF coil design by Cocking . |
| 17 | He told us to sit down and served us vinegar-tasting wine . |
| 18 | You laughed at Doctor Jekyll 's ideas and called them unscientific rubbish now see for yourself ! ’ |
| 19 | And his two escorts had shrugged and sympathised , and called it bad luck . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Oracle has plucked top product designer Karl Hageman from ASK and named him chief design architect of Oracle Manufacturing . |
| 21 | So we had a plant built to dilute our own acid , supplied customers with tanks and sent them dilute acid . |
| 22 | Peach retired in 1905 after 43 years service in a career which had taken him into nearly every part of Scotland and brought him world-wide recognition as an outstanding field geologist . |
| 23 | The engines whined softly as beautiful Oriental stewardesses showed them to their seats in First Class and offered them complimentary champagne , which they both refused . |
| 24 | During his tour the French government , on Oct. 30 , officially reiterated its recognition of him as Haiti 's President and offered him political asylum . |
| 25 | I recently had some bad news and everyone helped me through it and gave me great support . |
| 26 | ‘ At the hospital , the registrar said , ‘ No , it 's a sebaceous cyst , and we would n't normally operate , but since you are worried we 'll cut it out , ’ and gave me local anaesthetic . |
| 27 | Altogether , the tour gave the Indians maximum exposure to me and gave me maximum exposure to the ELT situation in India . |
| 28 | Even in Britain in the last years of the nineteenth century a high foreign office official had fairly frequent interviews , on the instructions of Lord Salisbury , the prime minister and foreign secretary , with Reuter 's agent in London and gave him selected information considered helpful to British policy . |
| 29 | The first gave him a degree of control over appointment to benefices in the Church ; the second referred certain cases to his court and gave him certain prerogative powers . |
| 30 | He did n't go to Mass , but it was said that the priests came down to him once a month and heard his confession and gave him Holy Communion . |