Example sentences of "[pers pn] have given [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd given the best years of my life to television . |
| 2 | I 've given a whole chapter to my constituency . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've given the best years of my life , ’ he faltered , and was unable to say more . |
| 5 | I 've given the two to Jim as well together so |
| 6 | I have n't given her this last year ( since I left home ) one half of the consideration I 've given the beastly creature upstairs just this last week . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Similarly , reconsider the example introduced as ( 8 ) above : ( 25 ) The flag is white Since I have given no further information about other colours the flag may contain , which might indeed be highly relevant to the proceedings , I may be taken to implicate that the flag has no other colours and is thus wholly white . |
| 11 | For the purposes of this chapter I have given the four schools fictitious names . |
| 12 | I have given the above observations explicitly because they are the necessary foundations for later investigation and many people have trouble observing them , even though others find them obvious . |
| 13 | She has given the High Court in London a map marking out an area of several hundred yards around her home from which she wants the man barred . |
| 14 | She 'd given a false name so he could n't trace her . |
| 15 | You 've given a goodly little pile here . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She was detained because the authorities suspected that she had given a Tibetan nationalist flag to a Buddhist monk from Gyurme monastery . |
| 20 | He had never been to a theatre in London , but he knew now , after the performance she had given a few minutes ago , that Mother Bombie was the greatest actress in the world . |
| 21 | But in the main her mother had continued to live in her own world and her father in his , and she herself had been waging an inward war of words against the narrowness of her existence and with no hope of seeing a way out : she had given the final ‘ no ’ to Henry Stalwort and convinced Peter Chambers that it was useless him thinking she would change her mind . |
| 22 | I have got to know him : he would not go round there unless she had given the all clear . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps she had given the other place as her address ? |
| 24 | From what I had gathered of her dinner with him in town , despite her obvious pleasure in meeting him again , she had given the poor man a straight brush-off . |
| 25 | She felt that she had given the whole thing away , that the Hare-woman 's eyes would be able to read all her thoughts from her face and that single word . |
| 26 | We were looking forward to a meal and a quiet evening in Dover when a radio message via Dover Coastguards informed us that another suspect vessel had been spotted heading west through the Straits after sailing from Belgium where she had given the local customs a false destination in Sweden for a large consignment of spirits loaded . |
| 27 | Yeah , we with this been ongoing , we 've given a hundred and fifty pounds to it , erm , well I say I do n't see it on the top one . |
| 28 | I mean they keep saying we 've given the all , all these opportunities to all these |
| 29 | Here we have given a Penitential Service and a Prayer Service with a suggested format for each . |
| 30 | ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , ’ called the headmaster , ‘ we are ready to begin our pageant , to which we have given the lighthearted title Islamic Wimbledon ! ’ |