Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fate , thought Charlotte , gazing innocently back into his admiring , devoted , humiliated and furious face , has certainly given me the upper hand of you , my boy ! |
| 2 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 3 | Because he 's given me the greatest gift of friendship . |
| 4 | With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it . |
| 5 | Thanks very much Mark , you 've given me the hardest part . |
| 6 | I waved at the receptionist , who had obviously forgotten about me , as I left , saying : ‘ Sorry , the despatcher 's given me the wrong street . ’ |
| 7 | Now you 've given me the same answer for two different inputs , but that 's okay . |
| 8 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 9 | Given them the negative polarity item I give a damn . |
| 10 | An anonymous businessman has given them the remaining amount . |
| 11 | Three thousand members of the British Shops and Stores Association ( which , since last Autumn has incorporated NARF ) , were invited to nominate the flooring manufacturer who has given them the best service . |
| 12 | When readers have written in , worried about whether to tell about a secret lover , you 've so often given them the excellent advice : ‘ Keep mum ’ . |
| 13 | as if he read Wickham 's mind , Shildon wrapped up the discussion , said he had given them the important stuff and the rest could wait . |
| 14 | As we 're roping up , who should arrive to tie on but the lad who 'd joined me the previous day . |
| 15 | She was sure that at some point she 'd given someone the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing . |
| 16 | The more fully we have developed ourselves the more cause for such gratitude we will have , and the more we understand the cosmos , particularly by grasping the true nature of detailed parts of it and their place in the total scheme , the more we will appreciate the sheer wonderfulness of it , and arrive at a kind of mystical adoration of it . |
| 17 | Alan rung me the other day . |
| 18 | The ANC described the membership of the five MPs ( who were subsequently expelled from the DP ) as formalizing a " long-standing relationship which has earned them the greatest respect " and as underlining the ANC 's commitment to " a truly non-racial South Africa " . |
| 19 | Somehow she had imagined them both greeting Peter together , wrapped in each other 's arms , confirming what Peter had already imagined when he 'd rung her the other morning . |
| 20 | The frequent manifestation of a melancholy figure at Covent Garden Underground Station has earned it the unwanted title of the most haunted station on the London Transport system . |
| 21 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 22 | I do think if er if we it strikes me I forgotten what the new guy 's name is you 've got in charge of the yard , what 's his name ? |
| 23 | have n't seen him , it 's Dr I think that 's attended me the last time . |
| 24 | ‘ You might n't have thought so if you 'd seen them the next day , ’ said Toby . |
| 25 | He had also made himself the leading authority on fossil fish , taking over Cuvier 's work . |
| 26 | But now Mr Gorbachev has made himself the unpalatable alternative . |
| 27 | It was on this basis of this rationality , embodied in modern science and technology , that cette vielle Europe had triumphed throughout the world , had made itself the universal point of reference . |
| 28 | See where this affair with a nobody will lead you ; I would have made you the greatest actress of your generation , and now you are nothing and no one . ’ |
| 29 | It takes far less time than full-scale autobiography , for we are looking for a profile of the significant events that have made you the distinctive person that you are ( warts and all , as they say ) . |
| 30 | The anticipated sense of loss can be so strong and the wish to feel you have done everything the dying person wanted so real that the people involved will often comply no matter how outrageous the request . |