Example sentences of "[vb pp] [det] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | So too was Maud , the daughter of Holroyd Smith , who later recalled that auspicious day she rode on the top deck of car 5 after the opening ceremony and played with the chain of ‘ a very jolly Mayor ’ who sat next to her . |
2 | Given another two seconds she might well have flung something a lot harder and heavier at him , even though she 'd never done anything as temperamental in her life . |
3 | Given this overall approach it was clear that the question of the so-called worker-peasant alliance was to be one of the main economic , social and political problems in the period that lay ahead . |
4 | Given this wide range it is inevitable that some issues are overlooked in individual agreements . |
5 | Given this apparent potential it is interesting to see how the various manufacturers are coping with the current market expansion . |
6 | And we were given this lovely bag you know , with your buns in and your lunch and I think at these kind of things erm were very , very acceptable and you see it , it was , it was involving people er with the store , not just your groceries . |
7 | According to O'Neill : Given this remarkable posture it is not surprising that Carter 's record of policy-making in other fields was unimpressive . |
8 | ‘ Unless something is done and we are given some special dispensation we will never be happy with this . ’ |
9 | They 'd heard this awful racket you see and they 'd thought it was me coming and falling or something on the stairs . |
10 | but I think now you 've included this little foreground it really brings the whole picture to life . |
11 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
12 | Have you seen that new technique they have with honey and warm thingy ? |
13 | A fortnight after she had made this earth-shattering discovery she was amazed when he stuttered out an invitation to the cinema . |
14 | I have n't seen this new pack you know we |
15 | Should they have made any small mistakes they will laugh and learn to improve next time , and if their performance was perfect they will be absolutely delighted . |
16 | ‘ Given these cold facts I did not feel comfortable with any of the ideas we had until I read about a satellite mushroom farming venture being launched by Wilgro last spring , ’ said Mr Singleton . |
17 | Given these irreconcilable purposes it is Pham Van Dong and Giap , to take two symbols of Vietnamese intransigence , rather than Ho Chi Minh , who represented the reality of Franco-Vietnamese relations in the four or five months before the all-out war began in December 1946 ; even though it is tempting to consider how , up to the last minute , conflict might have been averted — or at least postponed . |
18 | I 'll tell you what it is , that 's since you 've had that ginger cat she 's done it . |
19 | Some tenants to whom this happens every few months said they 'd been told that next time they 'd have to sort it out themselves . |
20 | er and Sharon never alt er cancelled that , well they come out and they said they 'd had Chinese flu so when I went into and had me chest done , I says I 've got the flu like , she says yeah she said I says I , I know , I said they 've got that Chinese flu she 's be |
21 | I ai n't got that horrible tightness it me chest now thank God . |
22 | it 's same with a Samsung , I end up sometimes putting it in the Toshiba one , to re-wind it back , but I 've had some funny tapes I have just lately , it 's the tape that wo n't re-wind , because how I 've noticed been the tape like , cos I 've put it in the Toshiba and re-wound , but it would n't even re-wind in the Toshiba , so Arthur says well he says that 's the tapes |
23 | She got this pink wool like angora twenty five pence a ball , so she started that , then she come on er , no Tuesday , with that she bought some needles cos if she 'd of had some more needles I could of done this one for er , now she 's got the back and er sleeve done I think , half a sleeve done I think |
24 | Michelle have you got another dirty glass you want to replace |
25 | Er indeed the directive was promulgated as the minister said but I do n't think it was a bolt out of the blue , it was of course something that we around for some considerable time before that and of course that excuse hardly applies to the delay in establishing the European parliamentary constituency committees , er as the minister er will know very well , it was merely a matter of seven weeks , er the excuse being that had they had another seven weeks they could have had the public inquiry stage , the reality of course was that there was plenty of time to do this in good time and in good order and without the confusion that exists now er around the candidatures and the boundaries of the existing European boundaries . |
26 | No , just cli , and yesterday he 'd got this marvellous cleaner he uses . |
27 | But I 'm thinking , I 'm think I 've got this terrible feeling I 'd have to come on with the princess , if we 've just got married |
28 | and he 's having a punch up with his brother and he keeps letting his brother hit him he 's got this holographic image he , who accompanies him with this fucking computer , and working out what 's going on why they 're there sort of thing cos he goes back in into to different times to help these people out |
29 | M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works . |
30 | No I 've got this big problem you see because very often pianos are at the centre of orgies . |