Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has since got used to only having one sighted eye although it has given him a few recurring infections . |
| 2 | In fact it was one of Adams 's less-explosive innings which has given him the most pleasure this summer . |
| 3 | Unlike our other two children , our daughter Alicia has given us a few problems with her nightly stirrings . |
| 4 | He has angered us a few times , Sheridan , Vinny , Eric , Batty all gone but we 're still up there , second in the league . |
| 5 | Understanding the disk organisation has taken me a little time , but this has been amply repaid by the speed and ease of data storage which the hard disk gives me . |
| 6 | Yeah because what they did they they 've done it a few a times though different people , look and see how far it is before it 's a blind spot . |
| 7 | He 'd given her a few sugar pieces , which she 'd taken , and even offered several pinches of snuff , which she had n't . |
| 8 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 9 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 10 | But he agreed the police could have given them a few day 's notice of the situation . |
| 11 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |
| 12 | One felt the full house would have preferred him a few thousand miles away this winter , rather than on the cabaret circuit . |
| 13 | I strongly recommend that we leave such arduous duties to your two companions , who will undoubtedly have asked themselves the same question . ’ |
| 14 | Must have cost him a few thousand to have it done . ’ |
| 15 | His companion was a head shorter and he was thin ; but a reader of character would have stamped him the more evil of the two . |
| 16 | Ironically , one of Mr Yeltsin 's critics , Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , speaker of parliament , might have swung him a few votes by appealing at the start of the session for deputies to behave responsibly , seek compromise and encourage ‘ dialogue , not monologue ’ . |
| 17 | Gifford Tate had painted it a few weeks before she died . |
| 18 | Now you 've given me the same answer for two different inputs , but that 's okay . |
| 19 | We 've given you a few hints how to say them , dance to them , put great big eight foot wide papier mâché masks on to do them if you want . |
| 20 | If you 're talking about learning theory , well I 've given you a few names . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I 've pressed it a few times by accident and then needed it . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm looking forward to seeing your brother again , ’ Donna said , sipping the dry martini Alex had given her a few minutes earlier . |
| 24 | Juliet had given her a few pointers , but indream Susan found her experience as Vanessa Vail somehow more confidence-building . |
| 25 | Mauve had given him a few casts of hands and feet to take home and study . |
| 26 | Lady Maude had given him a few pennies and tomorrow he planned to see his friend in Crabbe Street . |
| 27 | Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child . |
| 28 | A vowel No I 've heard it a few times |
| 29 | She rushed to answer , thinking that it might be Barney , but it was a young journalist from the Gloucester Gazette who had interviewed her a few months previously when her latest book was published . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , I 've met him a few times , ’ she admitted . |