Example sentences of "'ve [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 've given her a mild sedative and I 'll sit here with her myself until she sleeps . ’
2 They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire .
3 Thanks very much Mark , you 've given me the hardest part .
4 Now you 've given me the same answer for two different inputs , but that 's okay .
5 Erm you 've given them a good start in life , it 's your money , enjoy yourselves with it .
6 I said , " You 've given him a bloody licence to do it . "
7 You 've given him an adverse marking .
8 I 've given him an anti-tetanus injection and told him not to shave over those scratches for the next few days . ’
9 You 've still got the problem of addressing praise , because quite often you 've only , if you 've given somebody a specific task then it 's easy to praise or not to praise in that situation , but if they 've just come in , done their job and gone home , you know , just sat on a checkout for four hours , right it 's my time to leave , then , if they 've done nothing out of the blue , extraordinary , so they do n't do anything wrong , or , you know .
10 As John Major said , they 've given us a bloody nose .
11 They 've given us a German prisoner of war again . ’
12 ‘ Willoughby , you 've given us a brief outline of a frankly hap-hazard sort of life up to now .
13 ( And for those clever dicks asking why I 've given it a higher rating here than in the footy feature , it 's 'coz I did n't know it was on budget then .
14 Which you and you 've given it an extra name of mumsy S L P .
15 And it means nothing to the layman , two Greek words meaning ‘ grey ’ and ‘ marrow ’ , so we 've given it an easier name , infantile paralysis , which at least is English . ’
16 LAUGHTER is the best medicine and over the last two weeks we hope we 've given you a real tonic with our
17 ‘ I 've given you the total message . ’
18 I said we 've got er , the best claims experience , I 've given you the one pamphlet , Women at Risk , which points out , women used to say , oh , a stroke it wo n't happen to me , cancer it wo n't happen to me .
19 And they 've assigned me a prolific blighter ( 'lific blighter ) —
20 Your background , your pedigree , yes you you you 've been brought up in a , possibly your fa your your parents , they 've taught you the right way , they are thrilled pieces , or they were if if they ma , they may well have been de dead by that time , but they were thrilled to pieces when you as a pharisee became a teacher , and a ruler , a leader amongst your people !
21 We 've won ourselves a new world .
22 Incidentally , Willoughby , you 've earned yourself a black mark for that little trouble .
23 Please note that you do not have to open the rings to put these markers over , though you should after you 've done it the first time , erm , it should become easier with practice , let me put it that way , okay .
24 that 's the wrong way , you 've done it the wrong way have n't you ?
25 Yeah , I 've noticed it a wee bit
26 ‘ You 'll stay right where you are until I 've made you a hot drink .
27 We 've offered him the best contract we could give him
28 Later , Madge had said : ‘ You 've got yourself a smashing lad there , Marie !
29 Less entrancing , I suppose , if you 've got them the other way round .
30 Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way .
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