Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] 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 | She 'd given a false name so he could n't trace her . |
7 | middle-age crisis and so on and so forth although you know given a certain number of intelligent people they could no doubt build an enormous |
8 | You 've given a goodly little pile here . |
9 | 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 . ’ |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | She was detained because the authorities suspected that she had given a Tibetan nationalist flag to a Buddhist monk from Gyurme monastery . |
13 | Here we have given a Penitential Service and a Prayer Service with a suggested format for each . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | In so doing , they have given a false picture of Jesus ’ own intention in the use of parables . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | These are : ( a ) That the officer can not discover the suspect 's name or believes he has given a false name . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | He has given a vivid portrayal of Jesus as the Messiah ; the new Moses ; the representative of God . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Just before leaving France in 1940 he had given a final dinner party at the Ritz in Paris to members of his unit , but had inadvertently left without paying the bill . |
26 | As long ago as 1172 Henry II had promised to mount a crusade and ever since then he had done nothing about it — though he had given a good deal of financial aid to the stricken kingdom . |
27 | Playing for the New Zealand Barbarians in a 23–13 win over a strong Public School Wanderers side , Botha ended a superb personal display in soaking conditions with his shorts as pristine white as when he had started the game , during which he had given a cultured demonstration of the arts of reading the game and tactical kicking . |
28 | Each time he had given a little shrug , as though to say , ‘ We 'll see ’ , and left it at that . |
29 | She had talked about thresholds and he had given an authoritative paper on ‘ The Potent Castrato : the phallogocentric structuration of Balzac 's hermaphrodite hero/ines ’ . |
30 | This attitude was bitterly criticized by republican politicians who felt that he had given an enormous fillip to a rebellion that would otherwise have run out of steam . |