Example sentences of "[verb] given [pron] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure .
2 ‘ The hotline has given me just the motivation I needed to get moving . ’
3 But this new research has given me just the ammunition I need .
4 This book has given you quite a bit of practical advice — things to actually DO .
5 Winning the John Moores would have given me just the confidence I needed .
6 ‘ I was watching that nun talking to you — it seems to have given you quite a turn . ’
7 He had not been so happy with the farmland which went with the Fish ; his town talents ( he was from Cockermouth , about ten miles away ) had given him neither the patience nor the experience for such niggling country work and — as he was a man who took advice badly — his neighbours had soon left him alone to rot alone .
8 But she had given him neither an address nor a telephone number ; and the complexities of finding either had posed rather too much of a problem on a transatlantic line .
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