Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E jus ' walked up ter me calm as yer like an' ses , ‘ Tell Mr Maitland 'is ole friends 'ave paid 'im a visit . ’ |
| 2 | I 've given her a mild sedative and I 'll sit here with her myself until she sleeps . ’ |
| 3 | I 've given her a draught . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 've had , I 've had two hundred pounds worth , I 've given her a cheque for two hundred pounds |
| 7 | You 've given me a heck of a lot of ammunition . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ They 've given me a roomette or some such , but I take this thing seriously . |
| 9 | They 've given me a theatre for a season . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ They 've given me a lot of furniture and other things that have been passed down through the generations . |
| 12 | You 've given me a lot . ’ |
| 13 | you know now you 've given me a let out . |
| 14 | ‘ I feel as if you 've given me a gift I 'm completely unworthy of . |
| 15 | Now she came away thinking I 've got this secondhand car and they 've given me a warranty . |
| 16 | We 're so sure about the reliability of our washing machines that we 've given them a full 5-year parts guarantee . |
| 17 | Erm you 've given them a good start in life , it 's your money , enjoy yourselves with it . |
| 18 | That means , they 've raised a third , we 've given them a third , and they got a third to raise . |
| 19 | Is it because we 've given them a different have we already used a pot up ? |
| 20 | And then but also with the poor peasants I mean you , you 've given them a , enough land so that they , they still ca n't meet subsistence , given them some land but not enough , but you know because they 're resourceful and they 've got other things that they , they do n't need to have enough land to give subsistence , they 'd rather go and do something else and make it up . |
| 21 | I 've given him a couple of garters for his socks . |
| 22 | I said , " You 've given him a bloody licence to do it . " |
| 23 | But we 've given him a thorough going over and I 'm sure it 's nothing more serious than a mild concussion . |
| 24 | They 've given him a price just for painting the walls . |
| 25 | It 's always the pressure that I give myself , and I 've given myself a lot of pressure this last year ’ , she revealed . |
| 26 | Well I 'm gon na come out , I said er , I 'm going to , I 'm gon na get well , I 've given myself a fortnight this weekend |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It may not be the bit that you 're going to eventually use for your assignment , because you 're a bit unsure taped up your assignment , but bring a short transcription , at least one side of A four , because if you do that , you will , if you 've given yourself a chance of actually trying it out , you will begin to see the problems and and the whole thing will be much more interesting and more rewardable . |
| 29 | ‘ Willoughby , you 've given us a brief outline of a frankly hap-hazard sort of life up to now . |
| 30 | As John Major said , they 've given us a bloody nose . |