Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had lost another close companion , another friend , one who had helped and guided him and given him such pleasure . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By the time you 've bought them some cigarettes and given them some money for the pub and said well if there er and the car has n't got any petrol so you pay for ten pounds worth of petrol . |
| 4 | We 've had times when we 've written to commercials and given them free tickets to dig ourselves out of a hole and things . |
| 5 | The doctor had been in and given her some sleeping pills . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh , actor , director and entrepreneur , has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours . |
| 8 | Yeah but they 've tak they 've taken they 've taken it a stage further and er prettied it up and given it another facility . |
| 9 | Turning over the free endpaper to the next double page , we shall usually arrive at the first appearance of print , unless the publisher has been very free with his endpapers and given us some blanks . |
| 10 | Well , I have been and gone and done it this time . |
| 11 | He 's read papers on the subject , visited laboratories and driven me mad reading out passages that sound like a foreign language . |
| 12 | Somewhere there was a photograph of her as a small child standing outside the cathedral with the aunt who had brought her up and taken her one day to visit it . |