Example sentences of "[pron] have give the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd given the best years of my life to television . |
| 2 | If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've given the best years of my life , ’ he faltered , and was unable to say more . |
| 4 | I 've given the two to Jim as well together so |
| 5 | I have n't given her this last year ( since I left home ) one half of the consideration I 've given the beastly creature upstairs just this last week . |
| 6 | For the purposes of this chapter I have given the four schools fictitious names . |
| 7 | I have given the above observations explicitly because they are the necessary foundations for later investigation and many people have trouble observing them , even though others find them obvious . |
| 8 | The Cancer Research Campaign , which has given the seven-strong team a £150,000 grant , is delighted . |
| 9 | On Dec. 22 a panel of the Supreme Court had overturned one challenge by a group of Bhopal victims by upholding legislation passed in 1985 which had given the central government the sole right to negotiate with UCC . |
| 10 | We should make a strenuous and united attempt to incorporate in the management of our own institutions some of the features which have given the American schools the high character they enjoy . |
| 11 | She has given the High Court in London a map marking out an area of several hundred yards around her home from which she wants the man barred . |
| 12 | But in the main her mother had continued to live in her own world and her father in his , and she herself had been waging an inward war of words against the narrowness of her existence and with no hope of seeing a way out : she had given the final ‘ no ’ to Henry Stalwort and convinced Peter Chambers that it was useless him thinking she would change her mind . |
| 13 | I have got to know him : he would not go round there unless she had given the all clear . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps she had given the other place as her address ? |
| 15 | From what I had gathered of her dinner with him in town , despite her obvious pleasure in meeting him again , she had given the poor man a straight brush-off . |
| 16 | She felt that she had given the whole thing away , that the Hare-woman 's eyes would be able to read all her thoughts from her face and that single word . |
| 17 | We were looking forward to a meal and a quiet evening in Dover when a radio message via Dover Coastguards informed us that another suspect vessel had been spotted heading west through the Straits after sailing from Belgium where she had given the local customs a false destination in Sweden for a large consignment of spirits loaded . |
| 18 | And as a mark of their respect for their aviator comrade , a lone bugler played The Last Post and Reveille before an RAF Hercules flew over the graveside at Frankby Cemetery in a special salute to the man who had given the last six years of his life to his country . |
| 19 | A conciliatory statement by Eisenhower on 20 January 1960 ( which may in itself have given the Soviet leadership the impression that a little meddling in Cuba would not incur serious repercussions ) was vociferously denounced by the PSP , creating an additional source of pressure on the Kremlin to make at least some show of solidarity with Castro 's ‘ small country struggling alone ’ . |
| 20 | I mean they keep saying we 've given the all , all these opportunities to all these |
| 21 | ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , ’ called the headmaster , ‘ we are ready to begin our pageant , to which we have given the lighthearted title Islamic Wimbledon ! ’ |
| 22 | After chatting to the veterans for several minutes , the prince turned to an aide and joked : ‘ I hope we have given the right medals to the right people . ’ |
| 23 | And you know , you always you er give , gave your number you see and er course some people I believe had an a I believe in later days they 'd given the older numbers out again , I do n't know wh you know , because some people that 've joined since me have got an older number , so I do n't know whether they 've given the ol they were sort of long since run out , you know . |
| 24 | Only afterwards is it plain that , for the most part , they 've given the same answers they 've supplied to the press for years . |
| 25 | These were the people Wesley had come to Cornwall to save , to rescue from the devil and , by all accounts , they had given the old campaigner a hard time of it . |
| 26 | They have given the Spanish club a further two weeks to find the cash . |
| 27 | Whilst the law is designed to give succour in times of difficulty to those who do their best , it will show little mercy to those who are at the receiving end of proceedings who can not demonstrate that they have given the highest priority . |
| 28 | Not content with missing a penalty in the WC Semi final last time , he has to give the fastest EVER international goal in one of Englands most crucial ( potentially ) games . |
| 29 | Bill Clinton was born in the town of Hope and that is what he has given the American people . |
| 30 | Taking votes mainly from one of the existing parties , it has given the other i.e the Tories virtually a clear run . |