Example sentences of "[verb] given [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it was one of Adams 's less-explosive innings which has given him the most pleasure this summer . |
| 2 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 3 | Expressing his pleasure at working with TAG , said , ‘ My experience over the last 20 years has given me the scientific and technical background which the modern catering industry requires . |
| 4 | Three thousand members of the British Shops and Stores Association ( which , since last Autumn has incorporated NARF ) , were invited to nominate the flooring manufacturer who has given them the best service . |
| 5 | An anonymous businessman has given them the remaining amount . |
| 6 | A FRENCHWOMAN has given herself the ultimate facelift in an attempt to create the perfect features . |
| 7 | The onward march of technological progress has given us the user-friendly sealed cassette , much more difficult to damage or tamper with — or to intervene in ( and to recreate on modern machines ) . |
| 8 | I only wonder why nobody has given us the small print of the Social Chapter that Labour and the Liberal Democrats want so badly . |
| 9 | TELEVISION has given us the dramatised documentary Last week The Sunday Telegraph , in its report ‘ Cambridge blues as Oxford bags title ’ , gave us the dramatised book review . |
| 10 | The East , on the other hand , has given us the long-haired Persian cat from sixteenth-century Iran , the silky Angora cat from Turkey at the same period ( when Ankara was pronounced Angora ) , and the exotic , long-legged Siamese cat from seventeenth-century Thailand . |
| 11 | God has given us the Holy Spirit so that He can work in His world . |
| 12 | Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage . |
| 13 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 14 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 15 | She was sure that at some point she 'd given someone the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing . |
| 16 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 17 | Adorno 's recognition of the radical potential of what he called jazz ( see , for example , Adorno 1976 : 33–4 ) could have given him the theoretical space for such an approach ( it certainly means he has no logical grounds for the theoretical closure he operates , only a self-fulfilling pessimism ) ; but he fails to follow his quest into places where he could have found what he sought , and , more damagingly , he excludes the possibility of any other mode of critique than that associated with alienated individualism . |
| 18 | I would never have given him the sweet if I knew there was acid in it . |
| 19 | Oh well it were n't to me cos I probably would have given you the eight |
| 20 | " Having given you the best years of my life , I now appeal to your justice and well-known liberality for a retiring pension , humbly requesting that in the event of my death the same may be continued to my child for his education till he attains 15 years of age , he being now in his 7th year . " |
| 21 | Thanks very much Mark , you 've given me the hardest part . |
| 22 | They 've given me the main facts . |
| 23 | Now you 've given me the same answer for two different inputs , but that 's okay . |
| 24 | I 've given you the best six months of |
| 25 | ‘ I 've given you the total message . ’ |
| 26 | I 've given you the two , er , the one that gives you the most space for the day , on the basis that if you have too much space for daily planning , it 's maybe irritating . |
| 27 | I said we 've got er , the best claims experience , I 've given you the one pamphlet , Women at Risk , which points out , women used to say , oh , a stroke it wo n't happen to me , cancer it wo n't happen to me . |
| 28 | Mrs Bradford had given her the complete day off for her father 's funeral and she did n't have to be back at the house in Newcastle Place until six o'clock . |
| 29 | It would be typical of Jacqui 's naivety to believe that she was dealing with an honest man who had given her the only copies in existence . |
| 30 | Fortunately her upbringing had given her the social training to cope with these situations . |