Example sentences of "[vb infin] given [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps you should have given yourself longer . ’ |
| 2 | You must have given yourself away somehow . |
| 3 | The solution is not to stop training , racing and getting up in the morning , but to make a few subtle adaptations , like allowing ourselves rest days we should have given ourselves years ago . |
| 4 | ‘ She should n't have given herself . ’ |
| 5 | She would have given herself to a man for whom she was nothing but another short-term conquest , and in a year , or six months , or however long it took him to tire of her , she would have found herself alone again . |
| 6 | Without it , she could not have given herself to him so completely . |
| 7 | To be plausible the authority should also be limited in the way ours is : a machine that appeared certain , in the teeth of all the evidence observable by us , that such and such a transistor was failing might well have given itself away precisely because it would lack the ‘ downwards ’ inscrutability that our inner workings have for us . |