Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] given [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ That she should have given him the letter a week after his arrival .
2 The arrival of Deacon Billingsley should have given me the satisfaction that my telephone call had been treated seriously , but I sensed this policeman was not going to offer me any satisfaction at all .
3 Should have given us the money , money .
4 should have given us the nudge .
5 This 28-day programme should have given you the opportunity to come to terms with your body .
6 I should have given you the benefit of the doubt . ’
7 ‘ I suppose I should have given you the choice before I took matters into my own hands . ’
8 Mrs Westaway is usually very good at keeping him under control , but he must have given her the slip somehow .
9 The girl must have given him the elbow , Harriet decided .
10 ‘ Anyway , she could have given you the study downstairs , ’ continued Hilda .
11 And you could have told the girl on switchboard to remind me — she 'd have given me the message , I assure you . ’
12 There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep .
13 If she 'd said Carolyn had borrowed a book from Clare and wanted to return it , they 'd have given her the address .
14 If that fool had known what it was , he 'd have given him the money ! ’
15 ‘ Come to think of it I 'd have given you the oranges even if you 'd said no . ’
16 Also , I may have given him the impression , with the urgency of youth possessed of strong convictions , that I wanted at all costs to have something published on this subject .
17 I think that he may have given her the choice .
18 The exact origins of the ferret can only be guesswork , but either descendants of the polecat line or variations on the resultant interbreeding between stoats and polecats may have given us the ferret we know today .
19 Even without the simple affirmation his face would have given her the answer ; he looked pale and drawn , as if he had slept even less than she had .
20 ‘ I do n't think she would have submitted — I would n't have done in that position — but she would definitely have lost consciousness and that would have given me the title . ’
21 At least it would have given me the prospect of seeing Mary Shelley again .
22 Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship .
23 This would have given him the opportunity to be a restraining influence against the extremists .
24 Clearly some forward planning in 1992 would have given him the opportunity to organise his affairs and avoid many of his problems .
25 ‘ I believe it was a very fair offer which would have given him the option of walking away with his dignity , but he said it was derisory and there are no more offers to be made . ’
26 My all-time favourite remark was made by a visiting Chesterfield supporter who watched silently as his team prepared to take a penalty in the dying seconds of a game at Barnsley which would have given them the draw .
27 If we 'd have gone for plc status first , then it would have given us the chance to work as a proper company .
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