Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The nature garden has given everyone a lift and will be somewhere that the children can enjoy . ’ |
| 2 | I have not done anything to earn it , but God has given me the Spirit and accepted me into his family ; and he means me to know that I belong . ’ |
| 3 | Now Michael White and John Gribbin have given us Stephen Hawking : a Life in Science , or rather Mr White has given us the life and Mr Gribbin the science ; the latter is awash with black holes , white dwarfs , protons , pulsars , quasars and quarks and is therefore no more comprehensible than Brief History ; also , what is one to make of a writer who speaks at one moment of ‘ tiny black holes ’ and the next of ‘ black holes which could eat solar systems for breakfast ’ ? |
| 4 | The reason for writing history essays is not that your teacher has given you a deadline and you are running out of excuses . |
| 5 | My daughters have taken you to themselves as a sister ; João I know has shown you every courtesy and kindness — and I myself give up valuable time each day to speak to you . |
| 6 | The man tried to give her a lift and would n't take no for an answer . |
| 7 | And then he tried to give us the slip and run off . |
| 8 | ‘ If we can prove this works , ’ Mr Dowding said , ‘ I am sure there are a lot of other farmers who want to give it a try and are just waiting . |
| 9 | I have been in touch with Jeanette ; she has found herself a job and seems to be settling down , while hoping for a visit from a certain young man ! |
| 10 | The situation has thrown me a bit and I shall be talking to him again because I want to know exactly what 's going on . |
| 11 | Whether Rory is merely loose in the world or ‘ away the crow road ’ ( dead ) only Kenneth seems to know , but Prentice 's uncle has left him a sign and a promise . |
| 12 | And then if I please to reach him a hand and pick him up again , he shall know and acknowledge to whom he owes it , and walk more humbly thereafter . |
| 13 | He reminded her of the day he 'd given her the locket and ring . ’ |
| 14 | He came to see her every evening and asked her to recount the events of that day . |
| 15 | But it was n't his fault she 'd built herself a dream and was looking for somewhere to make it happen . |
| 16 | In any case , I had already decided to give her a refund and a-new drier . |
| 17 | He looked at her now , sitting there like a bird with a broken wing , and was torn between wanting to give her a hug and a kiss , as he would with Anna when she 'd fallen and hurt her knee , and a rather more powerful instinct for self-preservation that urged him to climb into the airing cupboard and pull the door shut after him . |
| 18 | He had no ticket and she had a Season , and while he stood in line at the window they missed one train and she rolled her head and her eyes and seemed to think it a joke and when the train came there was one thought only in Millet 's mind . |
| 19 | Test the kitchen cold tap fully opened to see what the flow and pressure is like . |
| 20 | They keep saying they 're going to find me a house and say they 're going to buy me one . |
| 21 | Yeah he give give me a booklet and they get a little booklet with it . |
| 22 | so er we must remember to buy him a card and something |
| 23 | In two days we reached Tezpur , and again found kind ladies from the tea estates waiting to give us a meal and a bath — bliss indeed ! |
| 24 | Right we 're going to give you a tray and ask you to sort the finds out . |
| 25 | And some of them it 's it 's hard to get them to go so but in general any of the fairly reactive acids and any of the fairly reactive metals they 're going to give you a salt and hydrogen . |
| 26 | He asked whether she would mind calling him a cab and she dangled car keys and said she would drive him herself . |
| 27 | The likelihood is I 'm going to send him a catalogue and some , you know , a , a , a letter . |
| 28 | Still , she had promised to send him a postcard and the wording of that would need careful consideration . |
| 29 | Are you going to read me a story and show me your bedroom ? |
| 30 | Once you 're there , skiing is going to cost you an arm and a leg ( hopefully only financially ) . |