Example sentences of "[pers pn] have give the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd given the best years of my life to television .
2 If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated .
3 I 've given the best years of my life , ’ he faltered , and was unable to say more .
4 I 've given the two to Jim as well together so
5 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 .
6 For the purposes of this chapter I have given the four schools fictitious names .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 I have got to know him : he would not go round there unless she had given the all clear . ’
11 Perhaps she had given the other place as her address ?
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 I mean they keep saying we 've given the all , all these opportunities to all these
16 ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , ’ called the headmaster , ‘ we are ready to begin our pageant , to which we have given the lighthearted title Islamic Wimbledon ! ’
17 After chatting to the veterans for several minutes , the prince turned to an aide and joked : ‘ I hope we have given the right medals to the right people . ’
18 And you know , you always you er give , gave your number you see and er course some people I believe had an a I believe in later days they 'd given the older numbers out again , I do n't know wh you know , because some people that 've joined since me have got an older number , so I do n't know whether they 've given the ol they were sort of long since run out , you know .
19 Only afterwards is it plain that , for the most part , they 've given the same answers they 've supplied to the press for years .
20 These were the people Wesley had come to Cornwall to save , to rescue from the devil and , by all accounts , they had given the old campaigner a hard time of it .
21 They have given the Spanish club a further two weeks to find the cash .
22 Whilst the law is designed to give succour in times of difficulty to those who do their best , it will show little mercy to those who are at the receiving end of proceedings who can not demonstrate that they have given the highest priority .
23 Not content with missing a penalty in the WC Semi final last time , he has to give the fastest EVER international goal in one of Englands most crucial ( potentially ) games .
24 Bill Clinton was born in the town of Hope and that is what he has given the American people .
25 Taking votes mainly from one of the existing parties , it has given the other i.e the Tories virtually a clear run .
26 Top LTA coach Ian Barclay has seen how much of a kick it has given the promising youngsters under his charge at Bisham Abbey , youngsters like Alex Osterrieth ( who reached the last 16 along with fellow Brit Andrew Hill in America ) , Steven Clark , James Cotman and Barry McColl .
27 Marks & Spencer has , we are sure , nothing but the best of intentions for Brooks Brothers , which is why it has given the American clothier the benefit of its most successful ideas .
28 This restrained aloofness has had its drawbacks : it has given the bellicose idealists of the Left freedom to ride roughshod with impunity over institutions which have hitherto maintained our nation as civilised and admirable .
29 When he had given the wounded the water , he made a second trip .
30 On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort .
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