Example sentences of "[vb past] given i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Did Capron ask you straight whether you 'd given me any help ? ’
2 ‘ Only one , ’ said Ken , ‘ and that was n't because I forgot it : it was because they 'd given me bad directions . ’
3 Erm but he 'd given me this number , Glen about Portakabins .
4 So I went in and told them and they 'd given me wrong sack .
5 One who had given me invaluable help in tracking down German sources and participants was a sixty-year-old cultural attaché at the German Embassy by the name of Herbert Sulzbach .
6 On the day the telegram arrived from Southern Ferries , a close friend who had given me much encouragement now began to question my continuing any further .
7 But when we arrived home , we found the stranger had given me two pound notes as well as the coin .
8 The doctors had given me strict orders to keep warm while I was recuperating and there was no heating at all in the house , ’ said Mrs Easby .
9 She had given me this book , Period , and she says that how you feel about your first period affects you all your life , it affects your self-image , so it 's very important .
10 During that journey I had only travelled among the Adoimara , and at Bilen they had given me alarming accounts of the ferocity of the Asaimara in Bahdu .
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