Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
| 2 | I have capriciously given my second preference to a candidate of the Communist Party . |
| 3 | I just felt like I would have given my right arm to be there with a camera — and that stayed in my mind for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's true that I 've given my personal backing to Kevin Keegan in our search for players , but we have to be realistic . |
| 5 | I have given my filth-preference vote to one of them , and together with other much-transferred votes it may determine his election . |
| 6 | I have irresponsibly given my first preference to a candidate of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party . |
| 7 | De Gaulle wanted first for the Commission to end the pretence that it was a potential European government , and also its efforts to impose itself on national governments ; and second that if the Treaty of Rome requirements about majority voting were to apply , they should not be permitted to do so in situations where a member state deemed its vital interests to be at risk . |
| 8 | CGI 's top three officials , including chairman Robert Mallet , who together hold 25.4% , have committed their own shares to the bid . |
| 9 | Many Puritans were given to extreme introspection , and regularly committed their innermost thoughts to paper in the diaries and memoirs which they used as spiritual account books . |
| 10 | In these circumstances , it might well have modified its present adaptation to ground dwelling and nesting to something more appropriate to the more complex tundra environments that then existed . |
| 11 | One of the saddest aspects of this issue is the heavy strains and burdens placed on elderly people who might have expected their last years to be more enjoyable . |
| 12 | Thereafter , as many as a dozen other females will have added their own babies to the creche in the tunnel in the same way . |
| 13 | She would have enjoyed her little trip to London . ’ |
| 14 | This has often treated technology as an end in itself , and not queried its wider relationship to firm activity or weighed its contribution to performance . |
| 15 | THE 276-year-old Drummonds of Charing Cross has re-opened its historic doors to customers after £3.5 million facelift . |
| 16 | Given that Paisley 's ability to predict political events had always been a major part of his public image , one would have expected the electorate to turn against him , especially when he had committed his personal prestige to the extent of offering to resign if the strike did not change British policy . |
| 17 | Harvey said how much he had enjoyed his last visit to Riga , and how sorry he was that he would n't be going there , and the man at the other end said that Leningrad was one of the most wonderful towns in the world . |
| 18 | They had flown into the atmosphere and had carried his broken body to the other side of the castle . |
| 19 | Tommy tarantula had torn his tattered trousers to threads before his terrible teeth consisted of tea , toast and trifle and some tapioca followed by T-bone steak , plus a round of |
| 20 | Fewer than 1 in 5 of the men in our sample has confined his sexual experience to a single partner , though two-thirds of them have done so over the last 12 months . |
| 21 | I hope you 've enjoyed your first visit to Vi An , " said the plantation director with a forced affability . |
| 22 | These are increasingly hard to get — a Coventry welfare rights centre had so many claimants complaining that they 'd not received their statutory entitlement to maternity grants that the centre has printed a special complaints form . |
| 23 | He seemed to have dismissed their disturbing conversation to some distant recess in his mind . |
| 24 | At first glance perhaps , it appears an odd move for IBM , given its stated commitment to software and services . |
| 25 | Given its comparative relevance to the British coal dispute , it is essential that we examine this conduct in more detail . |
| 26 | Historically the word may come from one of several sources , but given its apparent near-restriction to the Welsh border counties , its origin lies perhaps in the Old Welsh Cai , the Middle Welsh Kei , and the Latin Caius , a common praenomen among the Romans . |
| 27 | Lloyd George discovered in 1919 , as Law had done in 1914 , that a Unionist party that had given its total commitment to a cause would not be fobbed off with a compromise . |
| 28 | However , the Revenue limited their actual claims to fixed proportions so that the total of the overseas income was not taxed more than once . |
| 29 | However , almost two-thirds have limited their sexual liaisons to single figures , with only 1 in 10 having had 20 or more sexual partners . |
| 30 | I also recommend Chairman that these member discussions should be extended to include representatives of the Breckland and District Council , given their declared opposition to our preferred choice route A and the important procedures now associated with the drafting of local plans . |