Example sentences of "[to-vb] given [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would have preferred to have given them a run chase but I then decided we had to be positive and get whatever we could out of the match , ’ said Moxon . |
| 2 | Where the two offices were united in one structure , Angell and Pownall seem to have given them an equal place on the Foreign Office and War Department lists , no doubt thinking that the implementation of the project would be considerably easier if the same architect were carrying out both offices . |
| 3 | His attempt to murder her seemed to have given him a new strength in the relationship . |
| 4 | However , his blazing indignation appears to have given him a nasty dose of alliterative-itis in a NUPE press release condemning the report as ‘ more market madness mirroring the mayhem in the mines ’ . |
| 5 | His parents seemed to have given him every encouragement and his first poems were imitations of his father 's songs . |
| 6 | My astonishment in coming here is to see these later pictures of his , although I always associate Basil with being a very competent , sensitive , and a typical Euston Road type of painter , I do think his association with the North seems to have done something incredible , and these later water colours , with their tremendous feeling for " wind and Yorkshire weather " seem to have given him an absolutely different and much more mature outlook . |
| 7 | Years of the language battle seemed to have given me an inner eye . |
| 8 | So I ask you to be open minded they may seem a little bit off the wall to start with , but everything that we do is done for a purpose to achieve er what we 're wanting to achieve and what I do want to achieve is by the end of tomorrow is to have given you a system . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , owing to some inexplicable negligence , ’ — he sighed and shook his head — ‘ they seem to have given us the slip . ’ |