Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have given [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen commending his work , not only for the pains therein taken , said that nothing had given her so great delectation . |
| 2 | Well I hope that I 've given you enough to get you started on the right tracks . |
| 3 | But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’ |
| 4 | She passed it off as a joke , furious that she had given herself away . |
| 5 | You have limited er suppliers who you choose er having heard the figures that you 've given us today erm i it seems to me that there is very little control of that expenditure . |
| 6 | We read the , read the agreements differently to what they did but he 'd lean towards the drivers , conductors and he gave away a lot of what had tried to erm stop them from having because they were n't really entitled to it but he saw differently and gave it away and course once you 've given it away you , no way of retracting it , but then came in and , well , I mean he was a real transport man , his , his vision and his ideas were really good and he made it what it is today . |
| 7 | A decline in activity may now come about if both accord the region less strategic value than they have given it hitherto . |
| 8 | He replied that he had given it verbally to a police sergeant , but that he must have forgotten about it . |
| 9 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 10 | We 'd have mixed appetites if you 'd given it any thought . |
| 11 | the trouble is not having enough modern catalogues of , of things that you can actually buy today because when they manufacturer them now they do n't erm make catalogues as often as they used to do er , it costs so much money in it I 'd er , I , I think that probably the next trend is going to be in lighting fittings er which will take in er you er , low energy lamps er , at the erm , the new fluorescent lamps er where erm , well there 's one in the hall which takes eight watts and it 's given us as much light out as a hundred watt lamp , er and |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But she had given it little thought during this time with Fernando . |
| 14 | That was a good tackle but he 's given it straight to Pearce . |
| 15 | It does nothing useful , despite what you may think about screen saving , but it 's given me more entertainment watching it than any amount of television soaps — Johnny even celebrates major holidays at the right time ( assuming your PC 's clock is set correctly , of course ) . |
| 16 | But if you have n't got that amount of capital it takes capital out of your hands and you ca n't spend it in five years time if you need it because you 've given it away effectively forever . |