Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've come and read me a bed time story when I have n't been very well and I 've been in bed . |
| 2 | Of the two passengers , both women , one had turned and given them a glare , the other pretended nothing was going on . |
| 3 | I should like , on their behalf , to thank him for all he has done and to wish him every success in his new appointment as Director General of the Electronic Components Industry Federation . |
| 4 | The prison governor tells them they are about to be shot and offers them the choice of dying like men or wearing blindfolds . |
| 5 | The original wall survives at the base to a greater degree than we had realised and gives us a substantial footing . |
| 6 | Five minutes later , an Arab in a small blue van stopped and gave me a few kilos of tangerines . |
| 7 | I wished we might have stopped and offered her a lift . |
| 8 | When an old woman on the mountain curtseys to Marco , when a priest takes the boys to the cave where loyalists have gathered and shows them a portrait of the historic Ivor , the story rises to a climax , but not to the final climax . |
| 9 | Notify the press of your efforts to get a conservation area designated and send them a copy of the booklet you have prepared . |
| 10 | And actually , one day , because she knew it was my favourite , she said that I could have permission to have it copied and gave me the name of the jeweller , which I thought was so sweet . |
| 11 | Wilson found it hard to believe Mr Landor had ever written poetry , that he had ever been judged a great poet , but Miss Blagden , who had moved into the Casa Guidi for the winter , swore that he had been much admired and gave her a whole list of his published works . |
| 12 | The two sisters were both in their fifties , both ex-nurses , neither ever married ; they 'd taken on the restaurant as a late-life decision when their father had died and left them a shared inheritance . |
| 13 | My intervention , such as it was , became well known and earned me the enmity of two or three people whose awards had been either altered or struck out . |
| 14 | It is very much appreciated and gives us a competitive advantage . |
| 15 | This consists of fortnightly meetings within each department of the hotel which offer all staff a chance to discuss the way their hotel is run and allows them an opportunity to make suggestions for ways to improve the service they provide . |
| 16 | She invited them to be seated and offered them a drink . |
| 17 | The primary purpose is to express concern for the individual involved and to give them a listening ear . |
| 18 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 19 | But her character became embroiled in one of the show 's least likely relationships — which kept viewers hooked and earned her an extended contract . |
| 20 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |
| 21 | And in fact what I did do was erm went and bought her a secondhand wardrobe , took it to her , and she was really pleased because apparently she thought it was a better one than the first one . |
| 22 | Giving parents a measure of choice would , it was argued , be more likely to secure their involvement in the school and in their child 's schooling : ‘ They are more likely to support a school they have freely chosen and to give it the loyalty which is so essential if their children are to do the same . ’ |
| 23 | Now she saved her animus largely for the council , which seemed unfair , since it had permitted her to buy for almost nothing the house which her mother had rented and given her a grant for improvements . |