Example sentences of "[pron] have given a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 've given a whole chapter to my constituency .
2 Erm , so I 'm hoping that that will work , it 's it 's down in the diary for him to do that , and and I 've given a little note about what the Adult School is all about .
3 I have given a great deal of thought as to how much I should actually tell you about this period and what just to leave to your imagination .
4 I have given a suggested r/hand fingering in the music notation , but you should obviously feel free to amend things to suit your own preferences .
5 Wordsworth concludes The Prelude with tributes to his sister Dorothy , and to S. T. Coleridge , both of whom , in their different ways , helped him to resolve the personal crisis into which the events of the 1790s had led him , and I have given a short biography of each .
6 The decision was , I do not doubt , a thoroughly beneficial decision which has given a sensible ambit to powers which Parliament had conferred in a way which good sense would suggest had left them far too restricted .
7 The possibility of such a merger has now been discounted by the Minister , who has given a solid commitment that no Government of his persuasion would attempt such a merger .
8 The issue in this case is whether an original lessee , or an intermediate assignee of a lease , who has given a direct covenant to pay the rent and observe the covenants , is released from liability following an agreement between the lessor and the occupying assignee of the lease under which the lessor takes a surrender of the lease and some of the assignee 's goods in return for releasing the assignee from all claims under the lease ?
9 She 'd given a false name so he could n't trace her .
10 You 've given a goodly little pile here .
11 Charlie says : ‘ I think it must be very difficult every day to give so much of yourself to so many people — and not feel in a way that , since you 've given a great deal , therefore you deserve love and warmth when you go home . ’
12 He recalled how she had given a great deal of help to the group of residents who in 1981 formed Project ‘ 81 — now the Hampshire Centre for Independent Living — which developed a structure to enable disabled people to leave residential care and live in the community .
13 And she had given a certain name to it , and I ca n't remember what the name was now , something like fiddling , I mean fiddling is too obvious , it was n't that , but it was something like that , an ordinary everyday term like that .
14 She was detained because the authorities suspected that she had given a Tibetan nationalist flag to a Buddhist monk from Gyurme monastery .
15 Along with their tickets the refugees had bought landing permits from the Cuban director of immigration , who had given a personal guarantee that they would face no difficulties entering his country .
16 I join those who have given an enthusiastic welcome to the Queen 's Speech and to the measures within it .
17 No one has given a satisfactory answer to that .
18 And in fact if if if if er we look along this line , at the moment we as I said in my introduction we have two districts or three districts who have expressed support for the principal , and of those of those one has given a clear indication that it would , this might be too , er high a phrase , welcome a new settlement , within its district .
19 Here we have given a Penitential Service and a Prayer Service with a suggested format for each .
20 He was slow to sign up two aged persons as being of unsound mind , and only did so after they had given a good deal of trouble at the workhouse .
21 In so doing , they have given a false picture of Jesus ’ own intention in the use of parables .
22 Otherwise , they may find that they have given a huge advantage to their competitors , without benefiting sufficiently from the opportunities that have been made available to them .
23 I think one of the great areas of such as system is in teaching young doctors , in training people , and an expert who ca n't tell a tutee why he has given a certain answer is n't really much good as a teacher .
24 These are : ( a ) That the officer can not discover the suspect 's name or believes he has given a false name .
25 With his ITV show Through The Keyhole he has given a guided tour of 200 homes of the rich and famous , exposing to public view everything from Viscount Weymouth 's erotic murals to Bernard Manning 's fish tank .
26 He has given a vivid portrayal of Jesus as the Messiah ; the new Moses ; the representative of God .
27 He has ‘ written ’ far more books than any other driver in the history of the sport ; he has given an infinite number of ‘ in depth ’ interviews ; he has been the subject of as much and as adulatory film footage as the Fellini-like Enzo Ferrari , and while everything he says seems absolutely straight , nothing he says is without a sharp edge to it .
28 Thus , so far as the Tribunal is concerned , Parliament accepted a privative clause of a kind which is unprecedented in modern English law , purporting to do what no Parliament has done before — it has given an administrative tribunal the power to determine its own jurisdiction .
29 The Government has thus done what no government before has done — it has given an inferior tribunal the power to determine the extent of its own jurisdiction .
30 Driving on , he told Paula that Harry Butler was on the way , that he 'd given a brief description of Evelyn so Butler would recognize her , plus her address .
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