Example sentences of "'ve give [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 | Oh god I 've give you a bloody handful now so that was stupid . |
19 | Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on . |