Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This result of this case has given us hope and will give us confidence in bringing more investigations to the fore . |
| 2 | ‘ The case has given us confidence in bringing more investigations to the fore , ’ said Mr Fox . |
| 3 | Dehomosexualisation of AIDS has cost us dear , in both our caring and our campaigning . |
| 4 | The study has helped me focus on my strengths and weaknesses in the management of the school and hopefully will encourage me to respond appropriately . |
| 5 | He had asked to be transferred , but his club had given him notice of retention and refused to release him . |
| 6 | The walls of his cell had given him nightmares . |
| 7 | It seemed mah lover had left me 'gain Oh I |
| 8 | Owning the Parrot had given them status . |
| 9 | The long ridge to their left looked particularly bleak and lifeless , the heavy clay sitting solidly in the ridges where the plough had left it months before , no trace of last year 's crop , nothing to indicate that this was good cereal country . |
| 10 | The rain and the wind had done them damage . |
| 11 | Her love for her child has given him comfort and helped him forget his pain . |
| 12 | Eventually Friedmaier is captured by the occupying forces , tortured and killed , but not before his silent suffering has earned him redemption . |
| 13 | The siege has given them publicity for their ideas , of course , but what they really want , to save Liam 's life , is something quite different . |
| 14 | Only after his accession did Richard seek to exploit Morgan 's Welsh connections , and by then Morgan 's private interests had shifted firmly to the south of England , where marriage had brought him land in Dorset and Hampshire . |
| 15 | Only after his accession did Richard seek to exploit Morgan 's Welsh connections , and by then Morgan 's private interests had shifted firmly to the south of England , where marriage had brought him land in Dorset and Hampshire . |
| 16 | Adam had put henna on his hair and that and the sun had turned it reddish-gold . |
| 17 | Like all outsiders , he was automatically a focus for suspicion , and his casual dismissal of the Manchester plan had gained him enemies . |
| 18 | Elizabeth and Helen 's initial experience of life in the community has brought them unhappiness and difficulties . |
| 19 | American veterans are suing the government , claiming that dioxin has caused them disabilities ranging from a severe form of acne ( chloracne ) to nerve and liver damage , miscarriage , birth defects , and cancer . |
| 20 | And yet in the intensity of their feeling , mixed with memories of early youth , there is a beauty — and the author has spared them sordidness , one feels , by never letting their love run its full course . |
| 21 | Sunil has shown me places in the club where the members rarely go and where , therefore , it 's safe to read or write or sleep as long as you wear your uniform and can pretend to be doing something vaguely official if someone comes in . |
| 22 | The Beggar tells him he has done him good already , and asks him not to spurn but to honour the experience of old age , claiming that poverty has shown him God . |
| 23 | While other factors may have influenced how these particular families have reacted , it is clear that the unusual genetic picture has caused them problems . |
| 24 | Born in Hawick , he was a late starter in photography , having worked for several years with a water board , but his eye for a picture has brought him distinction on numerous occasions . |
| 25 | The teacher had given them bricks of different widths . |
| 26 | On the other hand , it was no great sum and Hope 's custom had given him publicity . |
| 27 | Professor de Bono , there are well-established scales , particularly in the States , measuring long term stress and anxiety that we can use in rehabilitated patients to demonstrate that not only have the cardiologists given them years , but Doctor Bethell and his team have given them quality . |
| 28 | His achievements as Labour leader have earned him respect and admiration , but he has not been able to appeal beyond the party in which he has made his life . |
| 29 | And the young man said that the tailor had offered him kindness , and should live with them both in the castle and be happy ever after . |
| 30 | He told Richardson that a Dutch gentleman had given him Frageria chiloensis , a native strawberry from the Spanish West Indies , but although Miller had not yet seen the fruit he quoted A. F. Frézier who ‘ in his Voyages says it grows as big as a pullet 's egg … a great rarity ’ . |