Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] given [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 2 | It 's not a question I 've given much thought to . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've given much thought to what you meant when you said those things — to what you really want , and — ’ |
| 4 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 5 | Now I really love dressing up and I 've given all my trainers away to my brother . |
| 6 | When Richardson asked for them back , Billy airily said , ‘ Oh , I 've given all that to the Musée Picasso ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've given all the outgrown clothes and anything spare to Mrs Bennet . |
| 8 | Some o' the chaps 'd ask him , joking like , and he 'd say : ‘ I 've given that there up . |
| 9 | Well I 've given some , I 've not gone all the way round . |
| 10 | No , I have given all this up . |
| 11 | Then at last he said : ‘ Gentlemen — and ladies , pardon me — I have given much thought to these matters and I wish to say here in confidence to you , that while there remains between myself and many of those present differences of interpretation as to what is really occurring in Europe at this moment , despite this , as to the main points that have been raised in this house , I am convinced , gentlemen , convinced both of their justice and their practicality . ’ |
| 12 | I have given this careful thought in relation to the very limited funds we have available to encourage legacy income . |
| 13 | I have given this Nayar material at some length because it exemplifies such a large number of the themes which I have been emphasizing throughout this book . |
| 14 | Indeed , I have given some of the same warnings myself and , like them , have advised paying off debts and accumulating cash . |
| 15 | I hope I have given some idea of what a single neuron with its trigger feature and projective zone an accomplish , and now I must explain a bit about the neocortex , which is the stage on which neurons perform to bring about higher mental processes . |
| 16 | I append the headings of a few subjects to which I have given some attention , and which I could write a readable article upon . |
| 17 | I have given some of the prosaic reasons why the new clauses should not become part of the Bill — |
| 18 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 19 | they wanted to er you know given these guidelines I 'd think right let's , as you were saying , just go for it and |
| 20 | Yeah but Betty you 've given all yours to the bleeding bingo man . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll be sorry later if you 've given that to me . |
| 22 | Presumably you 've given this careful thought . ’ |
| 23 | She/he is also looking for initiative and indications that you have given some thought to what the job will involve . |
| 24 | ‘ So you have given some thought to the kind of man I am , have you ? ’ he asked with silky satisfaction . |
| 25 | Whether you have given this the same consideration of the increase in , er , directors ' salaries I do n't know , but I think y it 's worthy of , er , a further consideration . |
| 26 | Before we do before we do given that it 's just coming up to ten thirty could I ask somebody to propose suspension of standing orders . |
| 27 | So that the five pence we shared it out and we 've given each two each two people one penny between them . |
| 28 | Because we 've given much space to the needs of working mothers , I felt it was time to give housewives their say . |
| 29 | I think that 's very valuable here because we 've given all that stuff up front . |
| 30 | We must contact these people , we must build back the confidence to the unemployed , we 've given these people who are unemployed our good training , we need their expertise to come back and fight again if we 're gon na have any hope for the future . |