Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The hotline has given me just the motivation I needed to get moving . ’ |
| 2 | But this new research has given me just the ammunition I need . |
| 3 | Winning the John Moores would have given me just the confidence I needed . |
| 4 | The commander had reminded him only the day before of the need to use manpower more efficiently : the government was no longer inclined to keep tossing money at the police force without seeing results . |
| 5 | I 've enjoyed it quite a lot . |
| 6 | ‘ What happened was Chester Thompson brought them all down , because he had met me about a year prior to that and we just corresponded . |
| 7 | " Do n't let the bugs bite " She said the words without thinking , just as she had said them almost every night of her life . |
| 8 | He said it 's you know it 's it 's it 's not easily done but he 's seen them quite a lot . |
| 9 | a week and he has n't phoned me once a year |
| 10 | Lucy remonstrated , when Virginia had made them both a cup of tea and perched herself on the edge of Lucy 's bed . |
| 11 | If I 'd met you earlier the fact that I 'm married would have made it impossible for me to take off and fly with you like this . |
| 12 | Years at an English public school , punctuated by all-too-brief holidays in Italy , had made him almost a stranger within his family . |
| 13 | Over coffee back at the office I tried to pull myself together and sell him a traded option in copper which would , as it turned out , have made him quite a lot of money . |
| 14 | Maggie had seen him nearly every day at first . |
| 15 | The the first question is this is this thing about nerves is n't it because that 's the first feeling you have when you got up get up here is and as said I 'm dry already and I have n't even been up there and done it yet the voice is dry and you know then you feel a bit shaky and all that sort of thing and why do we why do we feel nervous ? |
| 16 | Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done . |
| 17 | If we 'd seen it once a year that was often , |
| 18 | SUMMERCHILD : Well , I 've noticed it quite a lot these past few months . |
| 19 | ‘ I was watching that nun talking to you — it seems to have given you quite a turn . ’ |
| 20 | This book has given you quite a bit of practical advice — things to actually DO . |
| 21 | Yeah and she 's just ch told me completely the opposite . |
| 22 | He 's had them quite a bit these last few days , they seem to come like that do n't they ? |
| 23 | ‘ I 've told you only the truth , my lovely one , ’ he breathed , and this time Fabia raised her head and kissed him , then found that she was the one being kissed , so expertly too that when eventually Ven pulled back she was feeling on a totally different plane . |
| 24 | over in Spain , she fucking had she had her right the way round there , sniffing out the fucking size of it , felt like saying do you want a quick short back and sides girl . |
| 25 | Well we 've had it over a year , it 's probably had its natural life . |
| 26 | They seem to have got it together a bit more . |
| 27 | Look — I 've brought you both a present … ‘ |
| 28 | ‘ You 'd have thought your Brian could have found you somewhere a bit more comfortable , ’ interposed Mrs Harper , seeing her opportunity of introducing Brian to his disadvantage , ‘ he must know a few folk , it 's not only money that counts . … ’ |
| 29 | We should have driven her home an hour ago . |
| 30 | ‘ You must have brought him quite a way ? ’ |