Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] [pers pn] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd only sustained minor injuries and the drummer had patched him up and given him a pair of free tickets for an anniversary concert in Tierra del Fuego . |
| 2 | The Ministry of Defence confirmed last night that the Army had finally lost patience and given him a month 's notice to quit . |
| 3 | So she had forced the issue , and given him a command . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Of the two passengers , both women , one had turned and given them a glare , the other pretended nothing was going on . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) Allowing the appeal , that before making the prohibited steps orders the justices should have informed the parties of their intention and given them an opportunity to make submissions as to whether such orders were appropriate ; that the justices had had no jurisdiction to make an order prohibiting the parents from having contact with each other because such contact was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibility towards his child and thus was outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; that , on the evidence they accepted , the justices had been plainly wrong to refuse to make the interim care orders ; and that , accordingly , the court would substitute interim care orders relating to both children ( post , pp. 271B–D , H — 272A , F , H — 273A ) . |
| 7 | It 's been an odd kind of fulfilment ; and it has quite knocked on the head all the priggish ideas I may have had , and given me a sense of values . |
| 8 | He had taken her off the streets and given her a home because he was besotted with her ; the home that Sarah 's mother had kept clean and cheerful even when her health was failing . |
| 9 | Now she saved her animus largely for the council , which seemed unfair , since it had permitted her to buy for almost nothing the house which her mother had rented and given her a grant for improvements . |
| 10 | She was settled for the night ; Clare had put her to bed and given her a mug of warm milk and two sleeping tablets . |
| 11 | The bumpiness had churned her stomach and given her a headache , but she kept her complaints to herself . |
| 12 | ‘ I think it was a threatened abortion , so I 've sent a sample for pregnancy test , and given her a shot of analgesic . ’ |
| 13 | Have you ever walked up to a fox and given it a cuddle without it trying to bite your arms off ? |
| 14 | Now in the House of Lords , she has written her biography and given it a title which could well sum up her life , Fighting All The Way . |
| 15 | ‘ — and given us a home in a shoebox , ’ said Gurder automatically . |
| 16 | The bread and the wine are consecrated with the reminder that ‘ through Jesus , God has freed us from the slavery of sin ’ and given us a life that is free of such bondage . |
| 17 | Celie felt special , Shug made her feel special , especially when she wrote and sung her a song . |
| 18 | I wished we might have stopped and offered her a lift . |
| 19 | In the later years of the dynasty there was a growing belief that the Queen of Sheba had visited Solomon in Jerusalem , had been seduced by him and borne him a son named Henelik , who founded the Abyssinian royal line . |