Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very occasionally he 's given me tinned stuff and pretty naff it is , too : bland and soft , like something you 'd give a kitten . |
| 2 | They 've always given me tremendous support and , when I 've been able to in a busy schedule , I 've reciprocated . |
| 3 | Now Zain has given me great help and everybody sort of helped er you know I 've discussed it with everybody and we 've almost finished erm a really good proposal I think . |
| 4 | It has given me great pleasure and pride to have been part of that team . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Richard has also given me many opportunities and without him and Peter my life as a freelance jockey would be made just that little bit more difficult . ’ |
| 6 | Unwelcomed , unwanted , despised and dug out , they had added a new dimension to my life , given me another self and I wanted never to go from Claro . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've given them this number and they 're going to test the line and call me back , ’ she said when Iris came in from the garden . |
| 8 | Wild Country have totally redesigned their Gore-Tex mountain mitts , given them non-slip palms and added some technical , sticky gloves inside ! |
| 9 | ‘ Old enough to have completed my medical training and a year as junior houseman . ’ |
| 10 | Anyone who has witnessed my hon. Friend and his especially outstanding and noticeable ties will see that Redditch has many lively things on which it can be commended to the nation . |
| 11 | They have slipped from the standards which have earned them recent success and even though West will be without half back stars Jonathan Wrigley and John Stabler , both injured , they are strong favourites . |
| 12 | Centuries of European upheaval have skirted its white stone and red tiled houses . |
| 13 | So far only the local city authority has nominated its three members and the identity of the new President is still a matter of speculation : after ten years of Socialist rule the Christian Democrats feel it is their turn to be represented , but so far no suitable candidate has emerged . |
| 14 | The current NHS reforms have again targeted its managerial structure and many changes not only affect , but actively involve nurses . |
| 15 | Where schools , aided by PNP resourcing , had lifted their professional climate and decision-making processes out of the slough of low morale , crisis management and paternalism , they were able to confront the next wave of change constructively and with confidence , having the will , expertise and procedures to tackle the very difficult questions about curriculum and assessment which the 1988 Act provoked . |
| 16 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |
| 17 | She , on the other hand , having finally regained her own life and independence after years of child-rearing , wanted to turn her attention to her own needs . |
| 18 | The Securitate has regained its former power and keeps the minorities in the same old state of terror and repression . |
| 19 | Her body had soon regained its youthful shape and he marvelled how trim she looked . |
| 20 | A knife wound had severed her jugular vein and her jaw was broken from a punch or a kick , the jury was told . |
| 21 | Having enjoyed their own childhood and experienced their parents ' delight in them , they want to repeat the good experience from the position of parent , and have few fears about this . |
| 22 | In recent years , folk music has shed its woolly jumper and finger-in-the-ear image and reached a new audience which appreciates its wide range of styles and influences . |
| 23 | Natalie is dying from a rare form of cancer that has attacked her nervous system and is spreading to her bones . |
| 24 | Some clients have carpeted their own rooms and got their own curtains and things like that . |
| 25 | Within several days she had forgotten her bad habit and her anxiety , and ceased to require an inducement to let someone climb on her back . |
| 26 | Another retired miner in Sunderland , whose wife had never earned her own living and who never wanted her to , was similarly affronted by the extremities of the power relationship : |
| 27 | He had considered her probable excuse and dispatched it swiftly . |
| 28 | I had asked the plumber to come and had reminded him several times and no doubt he would come in the end . |
| 29 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |
| 30 | They had enjoyed his single status and the attention he devoted to them , and frankly did not want the intrusion of a newcomer . |