Example sentences of "'ve [verb] [pers pn] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've had , I 've had two hundred pounds worth , I 've given her a cheque for two hundred pounds |
2 | And , I 'd like to say that er , Diana er er , has been extremely helpful , and I 've given her a bit of he aid , in trying to raise that kind of money . |
3 | My Uncle Stan and Aunt Alice are very good to me and more than good to Carrie , they 've given her a start in life she would never have had here . |
4 | You 've given me a heck of a lot of ammunition . ’ |
5 | They 've given me a theatre for a season . |
6 | ‘ They 've given me a lot of furniture and other things that have been passed down through the generations . |
7 | I 've given him a couple of garters for his socks . |
8 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
9 | We 're gon na get em trained up in the garages before we actually launch , but they are able now to say they are approved installers so they will be getting all the stuff , everything in relation to it , I 've given em a list of the people involved in Nottinghamshire and it 's the launch is on the seventh March at West Bridgford , and basically the system is ready and up and running , thank the Lord after hard work by er Keith and us all at various times , but it 's been mainly down to Keith . |
10 | You feel like you 've heard them a couple of hundred times when it 's only been twice . |
11 | We 've won it a couple of times have n't we ? |
12 | But as the organisation has seen to be when it meets generally speaking , the council and the executive are one and the same dealing with exactly the same business , I 've considered it a meeting of the organisation , and the organisation now basically is going to be the seven sub-committee plus an Annual General Meeting of it 's full council . |
13 | ‘ I 've met him a couple of times . |
14 | ’ Never mind , Mr. K. You 've done me a power of good . |
15 | Well , we 've done it a couple of times before . |
16 | Oh I 've seen it a couple of times , yeah . |
17 | ‘ I 've made you a cup of coffee — and I should drink it while it 's still hot , if I were you . ’ |
18 | There you are I 've made you a cup of tea . |
19 | Hey now for the past three mornings I 've got up out of bed , I 've made you a cup of tea every morning and breakfast on a tray , so do n't you come complaining to me . |
20 | No , I 've got her a box of things , I did a little box up with bits in all some for fifty p and a pound , doing that up and hair bands for her , giving her , given a little box with all little bits and pieces in it |
21 | yeah I 've got a lot of relations , I 've got twenty , twenty seven er grandchildren , that includes the great grandchildren , twenty seven which I have er to get something for all at Christmas it 's a pantomime I 've got stuff here and everywhere sorting out for them , cos my little grandson tonight is coming round to wrap them up for me so I got to mind I have n't , leave his present in the way otherwise he 'll know what he 's got yeah he 's got , I got a tape for him , he wanted a tape called Madness so I 've got him a tape for it so I 've had to put that out the way so he does n't wrap that up , no he comes and does them up for me tonight , and a friend Ian will help him as well , so you know it 's , it 's great really |
22 | ‘ Look , I 've got you a bit of steak . |
23 | ‘ Do n't you worry , ’ he says , ‘ I 've got you a place in Combe Court . |
24 | the swing and I 've bought them a couple of wooden puzzles where you pick the bits up so , I thought well then I 'll call it a day there , and that 'll be that |
25 | But the bank wo n't crash merely because I 've bought you a cup of tea and a few Carnival cakes . ’ |
26 | mhm Well you 've told me a bit about what 's it 's like to be inside Kuwait , what about the Kuwaitis outside Kuwait ? |
27 | You 've told me a lot about your ideas , and I 've enjoyed sitting here listening to them . |
28 | I 've had it a bit on my conscience , really , for the last few months . |
29 | Ever since first encountering Gavrilov at the Touraine Music Festival in the mid-1970s , I 've thought him a player of infinite potential , with a technique of which legends are made . |
30 | So you say you 've found it a bit of a strain ? |