Example sentences of "[vb base] given [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 2 | I think both principles remain given this system . |
| 3 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 4 | they wanted to er you know given these guidelines I 'd think right let's , as you were saying , just go for it and |
| 5 | you know maybe I am the sort of person they 're looking for who 's already done a little bit of surveying erm to join as a dogsbody and then over the two years or four years however long it does take erm you know slowly presumably you just get given more responsibilities . |
| 6 | Before we do before we do given that it 's just coming up to ten thirty could I ask somebody to propose suspension of standing orders . |
| 7 | Some o' the chaps 'd ask him , joking like , and he 'd say : ‘ I 've given that there up . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'll be sorry later if you 've given that to me . |
| 9 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 10 | Now I really love dressing up and I 've given all my trainers away to my brother . |
| 11 | When Richardson asked for them back , Billy airily said , ‘ Oh , I 've given all that to the Musée Picasso ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've given all the outgrown clothes and anything spare to Mrs Bennet . |
| 13 | What we have said we are involved in a process which must involve both governments and all parties , whose objective is agreement among our divided people an agreement which all our traditions must give their allegiance and agreement , and an agreement which must express which which must respect our diversity , now I have kept repeating that statement since we made it and I asked anyone to tell me what they disagree with it , now the loyalist paramilitary some weeks ago said that if the I R A were to k their impression they 've given all along is that they 're just a reaction to the I R A and if the I R A were to stop they would cease immediately , I immediately put out a statement welcoming that statement by them , I also offered to talk directly to them , but they have refused er given the nature of their campaign , particularly at the moment , I begin to wonder do they want the I R A to stop ? |
| 14 | I think that 's very valuable here because we 've given all that stuff up front . |
| 15 | Yeah but Betty you 've given all yours to the bleeding bingo man . |
| 16 | Because we 've given much space to the needs of working mothers , I felt it was time to give housewives their say . |
| 17 | It 's not a question I 've given much thought to . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've given much thought to what you meant when you said those things — to what you really want , and — ’ |
| 19 | So that the five pence we shared it out and we 've given each two each two people one penny between them . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've given some very explicit warnings on that , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |
| 22 | They 've given some of the business to local estate agents … but according to a leaked Government document some estimates have been inaccurate . |
| 23 | Southend are one off the bottom … but they 've given some of the top teams a run for their money this season … |
| 24 | Well I 've given some , I 've not gone all the way round . |
| 25 | I hope I will , that we will have support in it on this issue and I do n't want to take up all the time but it is something that members do approach me in , and and others on the members ' services sub and I hope we have time Chairman to er give this report some consideration and let's say it 's a v , it 's a very important if you Chairman want any additionals to the recommendations , or if you say we 're going too far in the recommendations because those recommendations you have down in front of you will be forwarded on and you 're officers and your your your policies and resources they 've given some time on on this report and therefore on the bottom of page thirty one the motion to be moved says that the comments of the policy and resources committee and the recommendations of the joint working party and the internal management of the local authorities be noted for submission to the Association of County Councils as appropriate . |
| 26 | So obviously managers , who 've given some members of their staff trunk access 3 , which is very low , which is Oxford , can say to their staff , ‘ Right , phone New York , phone Florence , phone this , phone that , and get me a list of all these things ’ , and they can do it , because the system does n't look for their code , does n't look for their limiting trunks , erm trunk access code 40 , everybody can use system abbreviated numbers , hash 6 . |
| 27 | We must contact these people , we must build back the confidence to the unemployed , we 've given these people who are unemployed our good training , we need their expertise to come back and fight again if we 're gon na have any hope for the future . |
| 28 | Presumably you 've given this careful thought . ’ |
| 29 | By contrast , Mr Kravchuk and his prime minister , Mr Vitold Fokin , have given little indication that they are serious either about radical economic reform or the establishment of political democracy . |
| 30 | Even where elected representatives are aware of the vote-catching potential of courting the ethnic communities , they have given little thought to the educational implications of their policies , and even less effort to ensure that the policies are implemented . |