Example sentences of "[conj] given [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you 're worried in case anyone in the family has drunk out of a cup her husband used , or sat on the same loo seat or given him a friendly kiss , relax . |
| 2 | Yet this season , he 's played all but two matches , and since the ‘ 5 man defence ’ appeared when Batty got injured , the reviews I 've read have even called him a Batty replacement , and given him a good write-up . |
| 3 | I leave at 7.30am and by 8am have checked Skipper over and given him a small handful of feed in his manger ( which seems to keep him happy when other horses are fed and means I do n't have to wait an hour for him to digest a full feed ) . |
| 4 | We would have fished Tony out two or three kilometres down after the water had knocked him around a bit , and given him a dreadful bootful since he was wearing his Lundhags . |
| 5 | In addition , the war years had turned de Gaulle himself into a national leader and given him a unique symbolic identity , and yet had left him an inexperienced politician without an organized or cohesive following . |
| 6 | Herefordshire Friends of the Earth have looked into the Green Cone Scheme … and given them a guarded welcome : |
| 7 | Because British intelligence has been reluctant to spy on a legitimately elected government and has also been forbidden from keeping ministers under surveillance , MI5 has welcomed the CIA 's intervention and given it a free rein in its British operations , always provided that it can share the resulting information . |
| 8 | ‘ Under John 's leadership , the last three years have seen significant progress and given us a good start in tackling the challenges that lie ahead . ’ |