Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] a " 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 A local garage owner has leant them a car to help in the short term .
16 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 .
17 He had always done that at his pre-production party , given everyone a carnation to wear , but this time he had overreached himself .
18 ‘ The nature garden has given everyone a lift and will be somewhere that the children can enjoy . ’
19 Film and Filming magazine said the film had given everyone an insight into the thinking of Corman and Nicholson .
20 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 !
21 Original by the look of it , and so were the banisters , but someone had painted them a kind of snot green .
22 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 .
23 And they 've assigned me a prolific blighter ( 'lific blighter ) —
24 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 .
25 Mother would have given me a cuddle , and she was n't given to cuddles .
26 It had given me a world of wonder and time to draw it all in .
27 Stamford have given me a list of local McCloys and there again not a sniff as far as they know .
28 Lewis felt ‘ as if you had given me a bottle of champagne …
29 He told the throng : ‘ The people of Punjab have given me a lot of love …
30 He told the throng : ‘ The people of Punjab have given me a lot of love …
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