Example sentences of "'ve [verb] [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've given her a mild sedative and I 'll sit here with her myself until she sleeps . ’ |
| 2 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
| 3 | Erm you 've given them a good start in life , it 's your money , enjoy yourselves with it . |
| 4 | We 're so sure about the reliability of our washing machines that we 've given them a full 5-year parts guarantee . |
| 5 | That means , they 've raised a third , we 've given them a third , and they got a third to raise . |
| 6 | Is it because we 've given them a different have we already used a pot up ? |
| 7 | I said , " You 've given him a bloody licence to do it . " |
| 8 | But we 've given him a thorough going over and I 'm sure it 's nothing more serious than a mild concussion . |
| 9 | You 've still got the problem of addressing praise , because quite often you 've only , if you 've given somebody a specific task then it 's easy to praise or not to praise in that situation , but if they 've just come in , done their job and gone home , you know , just sat on a checkout for four hours , right it 's my time to leave , then , if they 've done nothing out of the blue , extraordinary , so they do n't do anything wrong , or , you know . |
| 10 | As John Major said , they 've given us a bloody nose . |
| 11 | They 've given us a German prisoner of war again . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Willoughby , you 've given us a brief outline of a frankly hap-hazard sort of life up to now . |
| 13 | ( And for those clever dicks asking why I 've given it a higher rating here than in the footy feature , it 's 'coz I did n't know it was on budget then . |
| 14 | LAUGHTER is the best medicine and over the last two weeks we hope we 've given you a real tonic with our |
| 15 | and I 've given you a good old fashioned tonic to get your strength all up again . |
| 16 | We 've given you a few hints how to say them , dance to them , put great big eight foot wide papier mâché masks on to do them if you want . |
| 17 | If you 're talking about learning theory , well I 've given you a few names . |
| 18 | I 've pressed it a few times by accident and then needed it . |
| 19 | And they 've assigned me a prolific blighter ( 'lific blighter ) — |
| 20 | A vowel No I 've heard it a few times |
| 21 | We 've won ourselves a new world . |
| 22 | Incidentally , Willoughby , you 've earned yourself a black mark for that little trouble . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , I 've met him a few times , ’ she admitted . |
| 24 | You 've done it a hundred times before . ’ |
| 25 | You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do . |
| 26 | All right , so you design a cup and rod device to compress a cat 's testicle and crush it , and when you 've done it a few thousand times over word gets out and you have protests and pressure . |
| 27 | Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers . |
| 28 | Yeah , I 've noticed it a wee bit |
| 29 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 30 | The New FADS missed the boat , but , well look here , they 've built themselves a new one . |