Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty years after the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove , JD Lang wrote of Australia 's Aborigines : ‘ ( we have ) despoiled them of their land , and given them in exchange European vice and European disease in every foul and fatal form … ’ |
| 2 | Given Shakespeare 's unlimited verbal energies it is no surprise to find him culling ingenuity from this idea of giving and receiving , as in the dazzling wit of 24 : ( I have italicized his in line 5 since it refers to the Poet ; his in line 8 since it refers to his bosom ; and They in line 14 as referring to his eyes . ) |
| 3 | Bill Francis had rung me from Marcus half an hour before I got back . |
| 4 | He had discharged himself on May 30 , borrowed some money from a friend and headed off to East Anglia . |
| 5 | After hearing several witnesses , including Aviv and the Observer 's reporter John Merritt , who had interviewed him in November 1989 , Magistrate Judge Ross found that Aviv had divulged at least part of his report to Merritt and had thereby waived work-product protection . |
| 6 | Towards the end , Horthy tried to extricate the country from the impending shambles , but the Germans occupied it in March 1944 and , in any case , the Allies were no longer sympathetic . |
| 7 | It is for this reason that I have confined myself to novels concerned with the period before 1914 . |
| 8 | There are no auditions , but once pupils have committed themselves to membership regular attendance is expected . |
| 9 | The church had been carefully laid out and constructed , but the basic unit of measurement had eluded us until December 1982 , when Michael Vickers of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford , a former member of the excavation-team , suggested that it might be the cubit , and , specifically , the long cubit . |
| 10 | Yu , who had served as deputy director of the GDP since 1989 , had reportedly distanced himself from Yang prior to the congress . |
| 11 | The person who sits on the dais in Ottawa or Canberra and goes through the motions of opening a Parliament is not and can not be the same being at all as the person who does these things and has done them from time immemorial at Westminster . |
| 12 | Microsoft Corp says that the number of users of its Windows software now exceeds 25m and sales are still rising at over 1m copies a month , emphasising that the figure does not double-count users that have upgraded their to Windows 3.1 . |
| 13 | I mean , Mike was like , you gon na stay down and I was , I have n't seen anybody at college all week , so I think I 'd better go back , actually . |
| 14 | The court heard that his daughter Deborah Anderson had last seen him alive when he had visited her on December 22 . |
| 15 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 16 | Cor , you should of seen it with Cindy last night ! |
| 17 | An election candidate has made it to Number 10 — in the pop charts with Evapor-8 . |
| 18 | As I see it Chapman might just have made it to number ten , but I doubt it . |
| 19 | I have visited lots of homes this week . ’ |
| 20 | The nomes who had once flown in the Ship had obviously grown lots of plants that way . |
| 21 | Have you seen anything of Sarah this weekend , is she alright ? |
| 22 | In fact it 's only recently we had anything on paper telling u in fact we 've had nothing on paper other than police committee minutes . |
| 23 | lots of people think well I 've got them to school that 's it then no more children |
| 24 | From what Neil had told me over supper last night , I knew that the main bird colonies were on the western side of the island , where the cliffy coastline was cut into deep gullies , some of them sheer , and some filled with tumbles of massed boulders . |
| 25 | But , I 've had them on buses several times just when I , when I 'm going on a bus . |
| 26 | And if he wanted to shoot rabbits he 's had plenty of chances this morning . |
| 27 | They 'd had plenty of bait four nights ago , then another two helpings of bait on another two nights and , although they were moving around the swim as was evidenced by line bites and rolling , they were just not inclined to feed — whatever the conditions . |
| 28 | So we d were n't worried about that , a nice big van we 'd got , it was a big one so we 'd got plenty of room thirteen foot high it was , nice size van for the job , and we filled it up and plenty of space left over , off we went . |
| 29 | The oligarchic tendency within the nobility which had shown itself in Edward II 's reign was intensified by the practice of granting new earldoms , and regranting old ones , in tail male . |
| 30 | I 've got one on page eighty-one , but we 'll come to it on pollution control . |