Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [noun prp] have give " in BNC.

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1 To that extent they ought to have wide circulation , except that they depend on the kind of painstaking preparation that Knussen had given them — the music sounded taught and nurtured rather than merely rehearsed .
2 He took out the remaining hand-grenade that Frankie had given him in New Orleans and slipped that into his inside pocket .
3 Now the rumours were widespread about Hitler 's fits and frenzies of rage , that he had to be accompanied everywhere by a doctor specializing in mental illness and Himmler had given orders to allow no one to see him , and that he was wounded and in hospital .
4 ‘ But you are thinking that it would be a dreadful irony if Fergus had given his soul into the captivity of the Prison of Hostages , only to have his quest abandoned ? ’
5 I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts .
6 He was schooling a new st'lyan that Burun had given him .
7 The fire crew had to cut free the man with his legs trapped , after Rachel and Nina had set up an intravenous infusion and David had given him a pethidine injection to help control his pain .
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