Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike our other two children , our daughter Alicia has given us a few problems with her nightly stirrings . |
| 2 | Rugby has given me a life , it 's given me everything . |
| 3 | On and off the pitch United 's decade under the Maxwells has given them a brief but all too short taste of glory . |
| 4 | THE wife of killer Michael Sams has called him a ‘ lying bastard ’ and said she was divorcing him after he revealed the full extent of his crimes . |
| 5 | Mama , Millie has brought you a present ; they 're currant buns . |
| 6 | In a way , I was thinking , Gharr had done me a favour . |
| 7 | Dennis had given us a rough time in the previous two Tests and so I started to chat to him to get him in a favourable mood for when it was our turn to bat . |
| 8 | The fire crew had to cut free the man with his legs trapped , after Rachel and Nina had set up an intravenous infusion and David had given him a pethidine injection to help control his pain . |
| 9 | But I did n't think they would put the band back together ; David had mentioned it a couple of times but I had n't really taken him that seriously . |
| 10 | Somehow that reference to Bruges had thrown her a little . |
| 11 | Fortunately Pat had lent me a few things so at least I was clean . |
| 12 | Malpass had told me a few more bits of the story ; not enough to know what was really going on but just enough to make me feel uncomfortable . |
| 13 | ‘ Lots of them did n't , ’ said Lee , running down the passage and into the kitchen that Philip had been in yesterday morning where Mrs Wright had given him a cup of tea . |
| 14 | Andy had given us a special ticket which was non-transferable , so we sat in the departure lounge disconsolately watching half-empty flights leaving for Heathrow . |
| 15 | Jean 's bought me a tin of biscuits and a tin of of tin of biscuits so there 's ample biscuits . |
| 16 | Last but not least Surrey have given us a second fine Chairman in Pauline Kenward . |
| 17 | Lilian 's given it a really good dusting down . |
| 18 | ‘ The conduct of the workers is deplorable , ’ wrote a French mining manager in 1869 , in the process of ferociously repressing the sort of strike of which Zola 's Germinal has given us a vivid picture , ‘ but one must recognise that they have been merely the savage instruments of agitators ’ . |
| 19 | If he overcomes Benn , Hearn has guaranteed him a re-match with Eubank this year . |
| 20 | ‘ Jane has told me a lot about you , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Only Babylonia has given us a story so close to Genesis that the question of borrowing or of direct influence is seriously considered . |
| 22 | ‘ Only that Frank has seen him a number of times coming out of a special house down there . |
| 23 | Odd-Knut has given him a hunting knife , and pointed him at the trees . |
| 24 | Harfleur had taught him a lesson : he must be properly prepared for siege warfare , all the more so since he now planned a conquest which could only be achieved through sieges and the show of effective military might . |
| 25 | In the early stages England had given them a certain amount of help , partly out of sympathy for their Protestant religious beliefs and partly to check the power of Spain — it was this war in the Netherlands , more than the troubles in South America , which convinced Philip that he should try to invade England . |
| 26 | He is disliked among liberal Serbs but his method of pillaging in Bosnia and Croatia has made him a very rich man and in the fragile economic state of former Yugoslavia , rich men are very powerful . |
| 27 | What held good for Stoke Poges held good for the Western Isles ; Kathleen Raine has given us a description , worthy of Thomas Gray , of the burial of an old Scotswoman : |
| 28 | ‘ Artai has given you a Khanate , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ All sorts of people have helped : The Rural Development Commission has lent us £10,000 to top up what we raised ; all the retired , trainee and working accountants , lawyers , journalists and businessmen in the village have put in hours of voluntary work , and our grocery wholesaler Pharaoh Quirke has given us a new fascia board . ’ |
| 30 | Elaine Cooper has sent us a double dose of news this month |