Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] 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 | I waved at the receptionist , who had obviously forgotten about me , as I left , saying : ‘ Sorry , the despatcher 's given me the wrong street . ’ |
| 3 | Given them the negative polarity item I give a damn . |
| 4 | An anonymous businessman has given them the remaining amount . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As we 're roping up , who should arrive to tie on but the lad who 'd joined me the previous day . |
| 8 | Alan rung me the other day . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | A long , indented coastline , with many harbours on both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean , gave her easy access to the oceans and had made her the economic centre of the world . |
| 13 | She was a nurse at a hospital on the other side of the village , and Killion had met her the previous evening by simply walking into the hospital and asking the first girl he saw if she would come out with him . |
| 14 | A lifetime 's devotion to ants has made him the principal authority on the subject . |
| 15 | On 29th January , 1855 , Aberdeen 's Government had been heavily defeated in the House of Commons on a censure motion criticizing its conduct of the Crimean War , but it was not until 6th February that Queen Victoria brought herself to appoint the seventy-one-year-old Palmerston as Aberdeen 's successor , although his prestige and popularity had made him the inevitable choice as Prime Minister . |
| 16 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 17 | It 's turned it the other way round . |
| 18 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 19 | The Hungarians have put privatisation and foreign-trade liberalisation before currency convertibility ; the Poles have done it the other way round . |
| 20 | I think you should have done it the other way . |
| 21 | It has done it the old-fashioned way , with teamwork , better quality and new models that appeal to its customers . |
| 22 | In fact if we 'd done it the proper way you 'd of had |
| 23 | that 's the wrong way , you 've done it the wrong way have n't you ? |
| 24 | Yeah I know I fou seen it the other day Mary . |
| 25 | This has been the practice in many countries internationally , but our sudden realisation of its effectiveness in creating bilingualism has made it the major discovery in language acquisition . |
| 26 | Its elasticity would have made it the ideal candidate for a trampoline-cover . |
| 27 | Flashman has made us the laughing stock of football . |
| 28 | 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 ! |
| 29 | I have just given you the traditional quantum mechanical recipe for calculating probabilities . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've given you the total message . ’ |