Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's given me all sorts of things has it ? |
| 2 | During that journey I had only travelled among the Adoimara , and at Bilen they had given me alarming accounts of the ferocity of the Asaimara in Bahdu . |
| 3 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 4 | My local police force has given me remarkable examples of young people in the south Wales constabulary area who have persistently reoffended . |
| 5 | That 's it an approved credit guideline and er that is the problem at the moment that the approved er credit guideline for the non T S G schemes is really insufficient and is having to be propped up er from elsewhere within the budget , your Chairman yesterday met with the er gentleman er the suited gentleman from Bedford and , and er having er given them appropriate cups of coffee er , impressed upon them that the er the one point two was really insufficient for one or two million er , er credit approvals was really insufficient for the needs of Suffolk and er they went away did they not Chairman saying that they er appreciated the point whether you had success or not or perhaps to er wait until December ? |
| 6 | But , in changing direction , the hurricane had given them ten minutes of further respite . |
| 7 | No , looks as though they 've done you some sort of . |
| 8 | Tycho was a Protestant , beholden only to the king of Denmark , Frederick II , who had granted him free use of a small island to pursue his astronomical studies . |
| 9 | If they had just kept the stuff they removed , it would have saved us six months of work . ’ |
| 10 | That would have given you some idea of the way I work . |
| 11 | Erm There 's quite a bit to go into with that but that 's hopefully given you some idea of how electricity works . |
| 12 | He reminded them that yesterday he 'd bought them two tins of Coca-Cola . |
| 13 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 14 | Nick was wearing yesterday 's shirt and the damp smell round the breakfast table told Erlich that Nick had washed his one pair of socks the night before . |
| 15 | When your mother was sort of having a lot of a lot of children and and after you you know you you were growing up and she was still having children erm had you any idea of erm the processes by which all this was coming about ? |
| 16 | — He must 'ave told you all sorts of lies . |
| 17 | Never once had he shown him any kind of affection . |
| 18 | Speaking in a House of Commons debate on the Report of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment in 1955 , Chuter Ede declared that his time as Home Secretary had not persuaded him either way of the arguments for or against deterrence . |
| 19 | The reason he wanted desperately to get into the company was that Ninette de Valois , to whom he had already spoken about his choreographic ambitions , had told him that experience of working with other choreographers and dancing their ballets was essential to learn his craft . |
| 20 | Kumi ( 22 ) , said : ‘ Many people have heard and read what happened and have offered us all kinds of help . |
| 21 | ‘ People associated with the council have called me all sorts of things . |
| 22 | how she speaks no he , he might ban her from the shop if she , if she keeps Well you know she 's called her all sorts of things in front of people . |
| 23 | As soon as we have found him another set of legs he 'll be out and about again , do you think he 'll mind walking on his hands for now ? |
| 24 | A nurse has secretly slipped him some strips of paper in his hands . |
| 25 | It was his profession that had brought him that shaft of insight , and he felt mildly safer because of it . |
| 26 | Ever since he 'd given her that power of attorney she 'd been getting above herself . |
| 27 | His headmaster , ( Sir ) Cyril Norwood [ q.v. ] , had given him two pieces of advice : to answer all letters by return of post , and never to be afraid of unpopularity . |
| 28 | Dowd had stayed out of the Retreat all the time he 'd waited for Godolphin ( a wearisome three days ) even though it would have given him some measure of protection against the bitter cold . |
| 29 | Perhaps he had given him some idea of when he would be home . |
| 30 | That was a case in which a district board took it upon themselves to pull down Mr. Cooper 's house , which they regarded as unsatisfactory , and to burden him with the cost of demolition without having first given him any type of notice . |