Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was made an honorary member of the club and given the promise of free beer for the rest of his life . |
| 2 | The woman had lashed out in fear and given the bird a fatal blow , feathers everywhere . |
| 3 | and given them a dish of trifle I think a lot would have just eaten the trifle , had a cup of tea and taken the rest home . |
| 4 | He had been lifted from a detention cell and given the job of English teacher because the Colonel liked a boy who could smile into the face of an interrogator who wielded a rubber truncheon . |
| 5 | One patient complained of heartburn and required the administration of H 2 antagonists to relieve it . |
| 6 | First , an enraged she-bear had barged through the undergrowth and taken the throat out of his horse with one swipe of her paw . |
| 7 | Now the eighteen-forties sees the development of manufacturing process , clothes are getting easier and easier to make , cheaper and cheaper , so fashion is changing faster because people can afford to , whereas in earlier times , if you wore a woollen dress , it had been you know , you know , somebody had done the sheep for you , had spun the wool and woven the wool and you were damned if you were going to take this dress off until it fell to pieces round you . |
| 8 | He was brought a copy of Budworth 's ( first ) book ; he was shown flattering notices in the newspapers ; he was led to the bar and shown the compliments in Latin , Greek , French and one or two new ones in English , written — all very neatly — on the walls . |
| 9 | Yet Mrs Blakey continued to sense the unease she 'd been aware of on the telephone , which she 'd first of all sensed when she 'd looked out of the landing window and seen the boy with the children in the garden . |
| 10 | Dorset Health Authority approved the plan and appointed the unit as its community services provider with funds transferred from the existing NHS trust units . |
| 11 | Some of the government appointments as heads of the programme companies were proven professionals — under ORTF : for example , in 1978 , the head of TFI , Jean-Louis Guillaud , had previously advised Pompidou on broadcasting and prepared the launching of the third channel ; the head of A2 , Maurice Ulrich , would later be ‘ Chef de Cabinet ’ of Chirac when premier ( 1986–8 ) ; Claude Contamine , head of FR3 , and later ( 1986–9 ) head of A2 , had been one of the first — when assistant DG of ORTF in 1964 — to commission work from independent producers , despite ORTF 's formal monopoly of production ; further proof-if it were needed — of the longevity of the connection between broadcasting and the state . |
| 12 | Among these long-term influences he included the deplorable state of the late medieval Catholic church , a widespread and deeply-rooted anti-clericalism , and the indigenous English heresy of Lollardy , which had both fuelled lay anti-clericalism and prepared the ground for later Protestant doctrines . |
| 13 | This met with opposition from representatives from civil-law jurisdictions on the ground that it was incompatible with the possession vaut titre principle and had implications going beyond the field of leasing , and the Study Group eventually concluded that no progress could be made on this issue and limited the statement of priority to conflicts between the lessor and the lessee 's general creditors , subject to perfection of the lessor 's title in accordance with any public notice requirements of the applicable law . |
| 14 | And we 'd dredge 'em up and they and they used to pick 'em up on a bucket , go in there , pick 'em on a bucket and of course instead of them going over , the tumbler , into the harbour , we used to have to put a chain round and 'em off , cos if not they 'd have gone over them , tumbler and damaged the chute . |
| 15 | He had been beaten by soldiers , he said , who had taken him back to his home and stolen the money he had hidden there . |
| 16 | They are given the induction pack and are taken round the home and shown the layout . |
| 17 | No wonder , then , if realism , which makes a claim to know past and present in unequivocal terms , returned to fiction and repossessed the field . |
| 18 | But Edward had a more substantial motive for planning an invasion of Normandy : his strategy was to take the pressure off Lancaster in Aquitaine by providing a diversion in Normandy and another in Flanders , were Sir Hugh Hastings had been appointed Lieutenant and given the command of Flemish troops who would advance from the north against Philip . |
| 19 | Having received the money and begun the video work herself , Mary Law had to recruit other members of staff to the scheme because the Humanities department had lost staff . |
| 20 | They do not have the ego-satisfaction of having thought up a brand new idea but in practical terms they do well ; The pioneer has developed the field and born the development costs . |
| 21 | The English at that time had produced a kind of ravishing sensuality which when we invaded Europe in France in the Hundred Years War and influenced the Burgundians , they were fascinated by the kind of sensuous sounds we were producing . |
| 22 | Thankfully , this time they 'll be headlining in their own right and given the success of their current single ‘ Do The Right Thing ’ they should be assured of a half-decent crowd . |
| 23 | When you 've set your objectives , sorted out the budget , chosen the venue and fixed the date , the next step is to plan the programme . |
| 24 | The original bitterness was over the way Niki had pointed a gun at McLaren 's head and taken the team for a great deal of money . |
| 25 | For one thing it has prompted a full-scale review of all the carving at Hampton Court and given the restorers the opportunity to reverse years of general neglect . |
| 26 | H. L. Clark ( 1915 ) did not consider Ophiopristis to be a distinct genus and transferred the type species O. hirsuta to Ophiacantha the remaining species O. cervicornis , O. permixta and O. axiologia together with a new species O. imperfectum he transferred to a new genus Ophioprium with the type species O. cervicornis . |
| 27 | Pa has just pulled up the sleeves of his jacket and taken the Monster from Ma . |
| 28 | Last night she had swallowed her pride and rung the Kilburn flat twice . |
| 29 | ‘ Those people — and thousands of them went through the proper procedure — will be contacted later this month and given the opportunity to purchase their tickets for the next home game . ’ |
| 30 | Billington , however , was a master of his trade and fixed the arms with ropes so that they would absorb some of the shock . |