Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 2 | My geraniums ( pelargoniums if you must ) are making a brave show at last in spite of one or two early frosts , and I am delighted that a tiny sprig of gentian given me by a neighbour has four vivid blue flowers . |
| 3 | It must have lulled me into a day dream . |
| 4 | Sapt had hidden me in a room in the old castle , and he and Fritz brought her to me there . |
| 5 | Eighth , they plant churches because ‘ God wants YWAM missionaries to build into local congregations the spiritual foundations ’ he has given them as a mission . |
| 6 | He warmed the pot , instinctively found the tea in the caddy Frances 's Auntie Pamela had given them as a wedding present , and brewed up . |
| 7 | She 'd given them as a wedding present , she said , and never seen them used . |
| 8 | Chris Patten has now joined me as a party chairman held responsible for winning an election by running a bad campaign ! |
| 9 | It looked as if we had painted ourselves into a corner and I was on the verge of giving up and going home when Jake trundled up with his totter 's cart and his little skewbald pony . |
| 10 | He has always impressed me as a man of great good humour , and with a wonderful fund of stories . |
| 11 | After visiting Bruce Hutchison , the next stop would be at the home of Mrs Nellie McClung whose books ‘ Clearing in the West ’ and ‘ The Stream Runs Fast ’ had impressed me as a youth . |
| 12 | They probably thought you 'd added me as a convoy . ’ |
| 13 | Our Minister had reminded me of a sermon by a former St. Andrew 's minister , about ‘ A Garden City , ’ where there would be realisation of the twin idelas : service and society . |
| 14 | A lucky deal in 1863 caused his business to take off : he bought two sacks of Cape of Good Hope triangular stamps for £5 from two sailors who had won them in a raffle in Cape Town . |
| 15 | According to the survey , 44 per cent of the sponsored students among the 14,000 engineers graduating in 1989 claimed that their work experience , averaging 13 months , has discouraged them from a career in engineering . |
| 16 | According to the survey , 44 per cent of the sponsored students among the 14,000 engineers graduating in 1989 claimed that their work experience , averaging 13 months , has discouraged them from a career in engineering . |
| 17 | That chilled me in a way I ca n't properly describe . |
| 18 | This is a relative newcomer to the hobby , so new that nobody has slotted them into a genus yet . |
| 19 | When at 10.45am we had resigned ourselves to a day of swimming and sunbathing a farmer pulled up and asked , in German , if we were waiting for him . |
| 20 | Such is the importance of education and training that we have committed ourselves to a programme of investment of £1.7 billion . |
| 21 | I told him that we had already committed ourselves to a cut of one half in our sub-strategic nuclear weapons and to smaller conventional forces . |
| 22 | A YOUNG man hanged himself after a row with his girlfriend , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 23 | A MAN hanged himself from a tree in a busy shopping centre — but no one noticed his body for at least two days . |
| 24 | To his horror he found that the young boy had hanged himself in a moment of despair . |
| 25 | TV COMIC Tony Slattery has sketched himself for a charity auction — starkers . |
| 26 | If God really has disclosed himself in a Son ; and if that Son was characterised by his possession of the Holy Spirit which he has passed on to his followers then we can not with t denying Christ maintain that God has revealed himself a much in Buddhism as in Christianity ; we can not make an amalgam of religions as if we were all honest seekers after a God who hides himself . |
| 27 | He was a very strong , patient , virile bloke who went on living with an awful woman because he had committed himself to a marriage . |
| 28 | His final decision is in favour of whichever proves stronger , but the stronger for perhaps no more than the brief spell of fullest awareness in which he decides , afterwards to be panic-stricken at having committed himself to a choice which none the less he still knows in his heart was right . |
| 29 | Wycliffe had perched himself on a stool between Hilda , who was seated at her desk , and Ralph , who sat on a seat like a chapel pew . |
| 30 | They had left their cabins early to enjoy the fresh morning breeze , and Joseph had perched himself on a coil of rope beside Chuck at the rail to finish his reading . |