Example sentences of "given [pers pn] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ Sickness has given me this fortune that this sultan has come to my side , at morn so health and well being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King without retinue . |
| 2 | The committee would never have given me this show if it was n't for the Machin revival . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ah well he says , and he said he 's given me this list . |
| 5 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 6 | Erm but he 'd given me this number , Glen about Portakabins . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've given them this number and they 're going to test the line and call me back , ’ she said when Iris came in from the garden . |
| 8 | that 's the perfect time and I had this sort of doubt in my mind erm then I was fortunate I learnt a co a very good scripted presentation for getting referred leads and once I started to actually ask , cos that 's all it comes down to , erm then I was getting three , four , in the end I was being quite clever and saying look if you just restrict them to three then I 'll give them the same good service I reckon I 've given you this service |
| 9 | So know that , if you now refer back to the , the book that I 've given you this morning and if you turn to where it says okay it says stop here do not read on |
| 10 | please contact us at this number , this address , erm or attract the attention of the person who has just given you this flyer . |
| 11 | If Benjamin had given her nothing else in their life together he had given her this child , and for that Sarah would forgive him anything . |
| 12 | She saw her work laid out there in the garden , all the muscled cold wet harshness of it ; all the labour and the ingrained resistance to working , and she thanked her mother , who had given her this thing . |
| 13 | England manager Graham Taylor has given him this Saturday off to attend the wedding of his sister Anne-Marie . |
| 14 | If a magistrate or other influential figure in a town was the owner of a building in which an excise office was then located , he too was vulnerable to pressure should he waver in his loyalty to the political interest which had given him this tenant . |
| 15 | And he has given us this command : Whoever loves God must also love his brother ( 1 John 4:18–21 ) . |
| 16 | you 've given us this information . |