Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You might have heard me on the radio , ’ she said . |
| 2 | I could n't help smiling at that ; she still had n't quite forgiven me for the fact that her remedy had n't been effective . |
| 3 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 4 | Then one day Kirsty met an old friend who happened to have consulted me in the past for regression therapy . |
| 5 | and criticizing the royal family , we have admired and criticized them in the course of the last half hour . |
| 6 | When , sometimes , I think back on the beauty of life on a South Seas island , I start to wonder how fate could possibly have propelled me from the rain and bedraggled leafless winter trees of England to such distant enchantment . |
| 7 | I 'll propose Emily 's report and , and in doing so I 'd like to say thank you to her for her sterling work this year , I think she 's done a terrific job erm and I 'd like to thank her personally for the help she 's given me over the year . |
| 8 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
| 9 | Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer . |
| 10 | The amount of serum given had to balance with the amount given me by the Pharmacist from the records she kept of that given to Ward Sisters for use on the wards . |
| 11 | Later on I produced a medical certificate , given me by the doctor , stating that my father was ill and that Saturdays and Sundays were the only days of the week I was at home and could help my mother look after him . |
| 12 | I am grateful to my colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Britain for the help and opportunities they have given me in the preparation of this book . |
| 13 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 14 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 15 | So she had placed them on the mantel with the vase and the dragon plates , and Gerry had promised her two more , next time he docked in Cape Town . |
| 16 | At first the health authorities will have to place their contracts where they have placed them in the past . |
| 17 | His mother had not joined them for the meal , bowing in this regard to the T'ang 's wishes . |
| 18 | The wedding , planned for November … ’ ) she had learned that she was the goddaughter of Lady Bartlett ( that mother of sons … ) and had joined them at the end of July . |
| 19 | It was as though he had joined them at the table , and it was n't doing D'Arcy 's appetite any good at all . |
| 20 | Rachel turned in the cramped space and saw that someone else had joined them on the jig . |
| 21 | And seeing that someone had joined them in the chapel , he pinched Caterina 's cheek , and lightly slapping her shoulder , said aloud , ‘ Away with you , find someone else to pester . ’ |
| 22 | Gamal and one or two of his friends had joined them in the box and Gamal was not entirely comfortable either , though for different reasons . |
| 23 | The handsome young fisherman Pablo had joined them in the café , and now he said , ‘ Señorita , you are doing nothing today . |
| 24 | ‘ Indeed you would n't find better anywhere , ’ said Mrs Bennet who had joined them in the cellar with her daughter . |
| 25 | Various organisations have lobbied me about the Bill . |
| 26 | Then I 'd wondered if some women who 'd stopped me on the path had taken it . |
| 27 | And having pilloried them in the past it is only fair to hear their point of view . |
| 28 | When you 've made your gifts to the various museums , you have given them with the stipulation that none of the works of art may ever be sold . |
| 29 | This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers . |
| 30 | The rather flat results of the autumn sales of nineteenth-century paintings in New York indicated that the market remains somewhat thin , although , as usual , good pictures , attractively priced , nearly always sell , if not for the frequently high estimates given them by the auction houses . |