Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Its elasticity would have made it the ideal candidate for a trampoline-cover . |
| 32 | Flashman has made us the laughing stock of football . |
| 33 | Your background , your pedigree , yes you you you 've been brought up in a , possibly your fa your your parents , they 've taught you the right way , they are thrilled pieces , or they were if if they ma , they may well have been de dead by that time , but they were thrilled to pieces when you as a pharisee became a teacher , and a ruler , a leader amongst your people ! |
| 34 | I have just given you the traditional quantum mechanical recipe for calculating probabilities . |
| 35 | ‘ I 've given you the total message . ’ |
| 36 | In this one it was n't quite so er , straightforward in that we , we had n't given you the actual activities to do . |
| 37 | Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage . |
| 38 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 39 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 40 | ‘ An my experience at Imperial had shown me the growing need in this country to find free-standing sites on the outskirts of towns , away from parking problems and inner city violence . |
| 41 | Less entrancing , I suppose , if you 've got them the other way round . |
| 42 | But he 's told me the main months . |
| 43 | But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth . |
| 44 | Mr. Green has again promised me the pencilled sketches of Dove 's Nest . |
| 45 | " Could have told you the Silesian Defence would n't work in One-Dimensional Chess . |
| 46 | But Brett here 's told you the only ones that 'll give any trouble will be the goons wearin' joggin' suits of black , grey or brown . |
| 47 | ‘ I have n't told you the whole story ! |
| 48 | Wait until I 've shown you the fabulous coast of Jutland and taken you to the island of Fyn where I was born . |
| 49 | So I 've shown you the good points and the bad points of it , I think it 's well worth using . |
| 50 | DeVore who had shown him the top-security files detailing the deals Klaus Ebert had struck with various Companies to destroy Curval 's own enterprise . |
| 51 | Then Finn had come up , grim , silent and dripping blood , wordlessly shown her the dreadful cut and gone upstairs to his sister for a bandage . |
| 52 | There had been tears in her father 's eyes as he 'd handed her the satin-lined box containing the jewels and Emily , taking it , had felt a constriction in her throat for , with the gift , her father was recognizing she was now a woman . |
| 53 | He had offered her the front seat for the last leg , but she had turned it down . |
| 54 | Yesterday Mr Hall said he was dissatisfied with the service he had received from Reg Vardy 's at Houghton-Le-Spring who had sold him the luxury car . |
| 55 | He has some obsession she has n't told him the whole truth . ’ |
| 56 | Perhaps Lou had told him the monstrous lie that I did n't love him any more ? |
| 57 | Lisa felt the cold finger of panic momentarily touch her , just as it had when , over the phone earlier , the girl from the claims department had told her the awful truth . |
| 58 | The reception had told her the Scottish Football team were residents in the hotel which increased her hopes of picking up the odd tip in order to ease her way through University . |
| 59 | She thought of the helpful policeman who had told her the wrong day for the train . |
| 60 | So when asked why I had not told her the whole story , I replied , ‘ Because you never asked me . ’ |