Example sentences of "given [pron] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fate , thought Charlotte , gazing innocently back into his admiring , devoted , humiliated and furious face , has certainly given me the upper hand of you , my boy ! |
| 2 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 3 | Because he 's given me the greatest gift of friendship . |
| 4 | With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it . |
| 5 | Thanks very much Mark , you 've given me the hardest part . |
| 6 | I waved at the receptionist , who had obviously forgotten about me , as I left , saying : ‘ Sorry , the despatcher 's given me the wrong street . ’ |
| 7 | Now you 've given me the same answer for two different inputs , but that 's okay . |
| 8 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 9 | Given them the negative polarity item I give a damn . |
| 10 | An anonymous businessman has given them the remaining amount . |
| 11 | Three thousand members of the British Shops and Stores Association ( which , since last Autumn has incorporated NARF ) , were invited to nominate the flooring manufacturer who has given them the best service . |
| 12 | When readers have written in , worried about whether to tell about a secret lover , you 've so often given them the excellent advice : ‘ Keep mum ’ . |
| 13 | as if he read Wickham 's mind , Shildon wrapped up the discussion , said he had given them the important stuff and the rest could wait . |
| 14 | She was sure that at some point she 'd given someone the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing . |
| 15 | I said we 've got er , the best claims experience , I 've given you the one pamphlet , Women at Risk , which points out , women used to say , oh , a stroke it wo n't happen to me , cancer it wo n't happen to me . |
| 16 | I have just given you the traditional quantum mechanical recipe for calculating probabilities . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've given you the total message . ’ |
| 18 | I have asked no one else , I have given you the first opportunity of owning these things . ’ |
| 19 | Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage . |
| 20 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 21 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 22 | A FRENCHWOMAN has given herself the ultimate facelift in an attempt to create the perfect features . |
| 23 | She had never held a baby before that was not a fat , well-dressed , sweet-smelling thing , but not one of them had ever given her the strange sense of fulfilment which the pitiful scrap of humanity in her arms , wrapped in the square which she had earlier scissored from her petticoat , did . |
| 24 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 25 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 26 | Mrs Bradford had given her the complete day off for her father 's funeral and she did n't have to be back at the house in Newcastle Place until six o'clock . |
| 27 | Had her mother given her the wrong information ? |
| 28 | That wonderful love they had shared and which had given her the precious gift of a son . |
| 29 | The temptation to put aside the bitterness and suspicion was great , but , after all , she was here for only one purpose , and now Luke had given her the ideal opportunity to pursue it . |
| 30 | Adam pointed to a framed cartoon , which he had given her the previous Christmas : a startled businessman gazed at a ghost ; rising from his desk drawer , it said , ‘ I am the spirit of old notes to yourself . ’ |