Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] given [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now I 've given way to my emotions when I swore to my father I never would . |
| 2 | If you 've given thought to them and excluded them , that 's fine as long as you 've made it clear . |
| 3 | We 've given money to organisations like the RSPB , Greenpeace , the Woodland Trust and Working Weekends on Organic Farms . ’ |
| 4 | We have given asylum to political refugees over many centuries : the Huguenots , the Jews from eastern Europe and Russia at the turn of the century , continental Europeans during the last war — including my father — and many others . |
| 5 | We have given advice to Departments on drawing up environmental housekeeping strategies for themselves — another first which every Department must complete by the end of 1992 . |
| 6 | Why is it that we can look at organizations which we ourselves have worked in for most of our lives , where we have complained bitterly , where over drinks with our colleagues or at the Christmas pantomime or some other time we have given vent to our irritation at these bad organizational and behavioural characteristics ; and yet when we reach high positions in companies we consider them to be something which is beyond our capability to influence ? |
| 7 | The programs in them have given rise to the myth that she was the world 's first programmer , but all the mathematical work in the notes was actually carried out by Babbage . |