Example sentences of "[pron] have given [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've given a whole chapter to my constituency . |
2 | Erm , so I 'm hoping that that will work , it 's it 's down in the diary for him to do that , and and I 've given a little note about what the Adult School is all about . |
3 | I have n't given her this last year ( since I left home ) one half of the consideration I 've given the beastly creature upstairs just this last week . |
4 | I have given a great deal of thought as to how much I should actually tell you about this period and what just to leave to your imagination . |
5 | Wordsworth concludes The Prelude with tributes to his sister Dorothy , and to S. T. Coleridge , both of whom , in their different ways , helped him to resolve the personal crisis into which the events of the 1790s had led him , and I have given a short biography of each . |
6 | I have given the above observations explicitly because they are the necessary foundations for later investigation and many people have trouble observing them , even though others find them obvious . |
7 | The decision was , I do not doubt , a thoroughly beneficial decision which has given a sensible ambit to powers which Parliament had conferred in a way which good sense would suggest had left them far too restricted . |
8 | The Cancer Research Campaign , which has given the seven-strong team a £150,000 grant , is delighted . |
9 | On Dec. 22 a panel of the Supreme Court had overturned one challenge by a group of Bhopal victims by upholding legislation passed in 1985 which had given the central government the sole right to negotiate with UCC . |
10 | We should make a strenuous and united attempt to incorporate in the management of our own institutions some of the features which have given the American schools the high character they enjoy . |
11 | The possibility of such a merger has now been discounted by the Minister , who has given a solid commitment that no Government of his persuasion would attempt such a merger . |
12 | The issue in this case is whether an original lessee , or an intermediate assignee of a lease , who has given a direct covenant to pay the rent and observe the covenants , is released from liability following an agreement between the lessor and the occupying assignee of the lease under which the lessor takes a surrender of the lease and some of the assignee 's goods in return for releasing the assignee from all claims under the lease ? |
13 | She has given the High Court in London a map marking out an area of several hundred yards around her home from which she wants the man barred . |
14 | She 'd given a false name so he could n't trace her . |
15 | Charlie says : ‘ I think it must be very difficult every day to give so much of yourself to so many people — and not feel in a way that , since you 've given a great deal , therefore you deserve love and warmth when you go home . ’ |
16 | He recalled how she had given a great deal of help to the group of residents who in 1981 formed Project ‘ 81 — now the Hampshire Centre for Independent Living — which developed a structure to enable disabled people to leave residential care and live in the community . |
17 | And she had given a certain name to it , and I ca n't remember what the name was now , something like fiddling , I mean fiddling is too obvious , it was n't that , but it was something like that , an ordinary everyday term like that . |
18 | Perhaps she had given the other place as her address ? |
19 | From what I had gathered of her dinner with him in town , despite her obvious pleasure in meeting him again , she had given the poor man a straight brush-off . |
20 | She felt that she had given the whole thing away , that the Hare-woman 's eyes would be able to read all her thoughts from her face and that single word . |
21 | We were looking forward to a meal and a quiet evening in Dover when a radio message via Dover Coastguards informed us that another suspect vessel had been spotted heading west through the Straits after sailing from Belgium where she had given the local customs a false destination in Sweden for a large consignment of spirits loaded . |
22 | Along with their tickets the refugees had bought landing permits from the Cuban director of immigration , who had given a personal guarantee that they would face no difficulties entering his country . |
23 | I join those who have given an enthusiastic welcome to the Queen 's Speech and to the measures within it . |
24 | A conciliatory statement by Eisenhower on 20 January 1960 ( which may in itself have given the Soviet leadership the impression that a little meddling in Cuba would not incur serious repercussions ) was vociferously denounced by the PSP , creating an additional source of pressure on the Kremlin to make at least some show of solidarity with Castro 's ‘ small country struggling alone ’ . |
25 | No one has given a satisfactory answer to that . |
26 | And in fact if if if if er we look along this line , at the moment we as I said in my introduction we have two districts or three districts who have expressed support for the principal , and of those of those one has given a clear indication that it would , this might be too , er high a phrase , welcome a new settlement , within its district . |
27 | Here we have given a Penitential Service and a Prayer Service with a suggested format for each . |
28 | ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , ’ called the headmaster , ‘ we are ready to begin our pageant , to which we have given the lighthearted title Islamic Wimbledon ! ’ |
29 | After chatting to the veterans for several minutes , the prince turned to an aide and joked : ‘ I hope we have given the right medals to the right people . ’ |
30 | He was slow to sign up two aged persons as being of unsound mind , and only did so after they had given a good deal of trouble at the workhouse . |