Example sentences of "given [pers pn] another " in BNC.

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1 Unwelcomed , unwanted , despised and dug out , they had added a new dimension to my life , given me another self and I wanted never to go from Claro .
2 ‘ But my chairman and vice-chairman have given me another year 's contract , and I 'm absolutely delighted to be staying at Nottingham Forest .
3 England have only beaten the Turks 1–0 in their last two clashes and Wright admitted : ‘ The manager has given me another chance , now I 'm desperate to repay that faith .
4 Yeah you 'll be getting most of those right and you wo n't have to learn sit up all night saying , Oh he 's given me another thirty five I E words to learn tonight .
5 The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit .
6 Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ?
7 It was a good thing that Edward Morris had given her another order which he had insisted on paying for in advance .
8 You might have given her another stroke . ’
9 ‘ Bastard 's given him another number , ’ said the engineer in Kensington to the two Metropolitan officers with him .
10 His paper have given him another six weeks ' leave-of-absence , so he decided to see France and , I believe , Spain . ’
11 A club spokesman said : ‘ The doctors have given him another scan and he was taken off the life-support machine . ’
12 While the logic of Black 's view has been widely accepted , in practice many empirical studies have used some form of rate of return , although they may have given it another name .
13 Indeed she had not given it another thought since last seeing it in Matthew 's sitting-room .
14 Yeah but they 've tak they 've taken they 've taken it a stage further and er prettied it up and given it another facility .
15 It would 've given us another month to play with at least .
16 As well as equerry , the hierarchy of the French royal stables has given us another , more common title — that of the constable .
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