Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] have give " in BNC.
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| 1 | They loathed the German guns and they looked with longing and detestation at Woolley , but in each of them fear had given way to a curiously objective fatalism . |
| 2 | The old heart or some other bit of my body has given out and fouled the system and I 've gone . |
| 3 | As a half-eaten plate of delicious boeuf en croûte was lifted away from her , Katherine heard her mother say , ‘ And do you know , one day when Katherine was tiny , she stole the engagement ring my husband had given me . ’ |
| 4 | I passed over the cheque my landlord had given me . |
| 5 | On the way we met two patrols with machine guns and my escort had to give what I thought was a password . |
| 6 | I had had a whole afternoon spent upon me , been the centre of attention , cost the State a fortune and my wife had given up a whole day of precious work to be with me . |
| 7 | ‘ A document my father had given to her brother . |
| 8 | ‘ My father 's given me tons of work , but I 'm in front of target , ’ he replied , and sounded a little more cheerful . |
| 9 | My manager has given me permission for me to use the shop foyer for a whole day and I hope to get local radio and local papers to advertise the sale for me . |
| 10 | I got my deserts , however , when being shown the sights of Paris by a distinguished professor and holder of the Légion d'Honneur , to whom my cousin had given me an introduction . |
| 11 | It was not only that my grandmother had given birth to and brought up eight children , and with the help of a Mrs Pipkin ( whose wages were ten shillings a week and an egg ) run a large house for many years ; there was the shop , and shops in those days were by no means labour-saving . |
| 12 | In 1934 when my grandfather died , my grandmother had given her his silver-handled walking stick , and just fifty years later , in 1984 , she gave it to me . |
| 13 | Suddenly it struck me just how much protection my past had given me , particularly the university lecturer bit of it . |
| 14 | I have found great relief from back pain , my tension and worry is very much reduced , and my doctor has given up even taking my blood pressure . |
| 15 | Fine that 's , that 's then but now my dad 's given me permission to do that I 'm not going to . |
| 16 | ‘ I know , ’ said Henry , ‘ and I am sorry to bother you at this time of night but my client has given me to understand that this is when you would be available . |
| 17 | My mother had to give up teaching to be at home all the time , and she 's beginning to look very tired , while my father seems to have aged ten years . ’ |
| 18 | The Government for their part have given a firm commitment to implement the recommendations of the review body unless there are clear and compelling reasons to do otherwise . |
| 19 | It had been just after Christmas ; she had worn a new pair of fur mittens her sister had given her . |
| 20 | He did not know that her experience had given her great strength of feeling . |
| 21 | club and have a fag , her mum 's given up smoking , so Joanne 's really worried now oh |
| 22 | This may not appear surprising ; it was certainly a serious drawback for Mary as queen that her upbringing had given her only second-hand knowledge of her country . |
| 23 | Fortunately her upbringing had given her the social training to cope with these situations . |
| 24 | But she knew her hesitation had given him a lead . |
| 25 | She had run away with him to London where she had borne him a daughter , naming her Topaz after a jewel her lover had given her . |
| 26 | Her love for her child has given him comfort and helped him forget his pain . |
| 27 | The early slapstick of their competitiveness had given way to outright savage aggression . |
| 28 | Penny was Sixer of the Kelpies , and when her granny had given her a beautiful budgie for a birthday present she decided to name it Kelpie after her Six , especially as the bird had a little silver patch on his throat — just as if he was wearing the Promise Badge , Penny pointed out gleefully . |
| 29 | She closed her book ; her papa had given it to her before she left for England and she blushed a little on remembering how short she had been with him when he had handed it over to her . |
| 30 | Courtney 's canoeists with ten Folbots ( see diagram p. 25 ) were the first of what became the Special Boat Section , formed after their leader had given a practical demonstration of the canoe 's military potential , a potential doubted by even the adventurous characters in Combined Operations headquarters until Courtney paddled out one summer night in 1940 to a carrier ship moored in the Clyde . |