Example sentences of "lent the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent OECD study ( 2 ) shows that households also benefited from innovations such as the securitisation of mortgage debt — making mortgages tradeable between lenders , so that the institution which originally lent the money might sell its mortgage claim to another bank or thrift when it needed cash . |
| 2 | In the meantime , the banks which lent the money to the dealers to enable them to pay the vast prices of the boom period are being very patient in waiting for their money , as it was partly their fault that a bubble economy was created in Japan . |
| 3 | Indebted countries ' options depend on the magnitude of the debt , who lent the money in the first place , and on what terms . |
| 4 | The respondent then lent the money interest-free to the family company . |
| 5 | probably had n't paid that much , so these peo the ones that lent the money out , in really they er , and they really have suffered just , they probably thought that if we do n't lend them the money somebody else will and get the interest and they 'll grow bigger and much overtake us , you know , to , to take over our business , so er , so the |
| 6 | The blue and yellow uniforms lent the scene a colourfulness not to be found in Britain , save perhaps in military ceremonial , and I could not but wonder why in our churches and social life colour has become so taboo . |
| 7 | From an ‘ Ideas ’ book , one should n't perhaps expect much in the way of detailed costings of large schemes , but the lack of any attempt to cost even some of the individual measures lent the whole exercise an air of unreality . |
| 8 | Nothing had been disturbed here — although the air of desertion and my timid light lent the place a sinister aspect . |
| 9 | We lent the husband a cheapie and he found it , 8ft up in a tree among the ivy . |
| 10 | Eliot , who lent the circle considerable prestige , found himself in congenial assorted , and in some cases strange , company . |
| 11 | The walls were white , but the angles of the roof and the three dormer windows had been lined with cedarwood which lent the room a very faint , pleasant scent . |
| 12 | While I found this amusing ( if rather regional ) , a real beginner in computing to whom I lent the book found it very off-putting . |