Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You feel like you 've heard them a couple of hundred times when it 's only been twice . |
| 2 | Lowell had heard them a few times before on the Sundays when life was normal and they were just background music at the commencement of an ordinary day . |
| 3 | The experience has taught me a lot , not least about Margaret Thatcher 's single achievement in changing the class contours of British politics . |
| 4 | Fortunately for Conran , he had attended the sort of public school ‘ which had taught me a lot of practical skills ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Her first professional job was before I was born , and she has taught me a lot . ’ |
| 6 | The governess here , Miss Lambert , has kindly taught me a little . |
| 7 | Four years with a handicapped child have taught me a lot of things , but three in particular : |
| 8 | There is a very smart woman working in Conservative Central Office who has taught me a trick at least as useful at that of Shirley Williams . |
| 9 | Listening to those criticisms has taught me a salutary and humbling lesson . |
| 10 | I was very naive but the last year has taught me a lot . |
| 11 | ‘ He has taught me a great deal about the business , ’ Alice proffered , ‘ and I know he is totally loyal to the Maison de Verveine . |
| 12 | ‘ Women have taught me a tremendous amount about emotions . |
| 13 | Kate has taught me a lot about motherhood — mostly because she approaches it in a completely different way to me . |
| 14 | The sum of the erm I do I do n't , I know , my dad 's taught me a different one to Miss , she she taught me that erm i the , oh hang on ! |
| 15 | But you 've taught me the difference between art and life . |
| 16 | My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist . |
| 17 | A local garage owner has leant them a car to help in the short term . |
| 18 | The Coalisland — Dungannon march had given everyone a good day out and had used up a lot of their energy by the time the moment of confrontation arrived . |
| 19 | He had always done that at his pre-production party , given everyone a carnation to wear , but this time he had overreached himself . |
| 20 | ‘ The nature garden has given everyone a lift and will be somewhere that the children can enjoy . ’ |
| 21 | The camcorder has given everyone the chance to star in their own home movies . |
| 22 | Film and Filming magazine said the film had given everyone an insight into the thinking of Corman and Nicholson . |
| 23 | they they get an allowance for somebody to clean and if they 've got a cleaner , I mean , they should have sacked them a long while ago ! |
| 24 | Original by the look of it , and so were the banisters , but someone had painted them a kind of snot green . |
| 25 | Well , he had taught them a swift , certain lesson : that no ten hired lackeys of the Emperor Karl Franz were a match for a single noble son of Bretonnia . |
| 26 | When an animal is brought in , especially an otter which is very nervous , we 've taught them the basic techniques of how to save them . |
| 27 | And they 've assigned me a prolific blighter ( 'lific blighter ) — |
| 28 | You 've assigned me the role of heartless villain financier , obsessed with money , wealth , and luxury . |
| 29 | I was quite prepared to do this journey alone , but my mother , who had given me every encouragement although well aware of the risks I was running , insisted I should take a companion . |
| 30 | I was neither Jew nor English nor white , or even a proper Indian or a proper Pakistani ; but my travels through Europe and stay in the USA and my near acceptance there as a living entity capable of suffering pain and enjoying pleasure had temporarily given me a sort of quasi-human status , further aggravated by those willing to be my sexual partners ; I had become spoilt and pampered . |