Example sentences of "[vb past] just given " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've often speculated since on what would have happened if we 'd just given ourselves up at this point . |
| 2 | The idea is that formalizing it much the same as you had , I 'd just given and it 's got induction er it 's got A B C erm there are personal details so that departments people picking up , see where they 've gone , see where they 've been and in things like skills , knowledge required , objectives start , finish dates how and with whom results comments . |
| 3 | He had just given her the chocolates and she had kissed him . |
| 4 | Each of us carries an unreliable ankle for instance , and Tony had just given his a jolt . |
| 5 | I felt as if I had just given birth . |
| 6 | ( I must tell here the story of a charming American lady who approached me when I had just given a talk on regression therapy . |
| 7 | ‘ He had just given up smoking , ’ she said . |
| 8 | A woman who had just given birth was being lifted off a stretcher . |
| 9 | Earlier I had felt as if I was being torn in two , but now the decision was made , I was floating on a warm tide of physical ease , as if I had just given birth . |
| 10 | The shamed Roman Catholic cleric wrote a heart-rending letter to the parents of his mistress , teacher Monika Kocanek , who had just given birth to baby Jennifer . |
| 11 | And to point out to her now that she did n't know the right thing to do when visiting people like the Kirkleys would be , in a way , against the advice she had just given her , although it was n't to do with talking ; more like behaviour and deportment or some such . |
| 12 | The bruiser had just given her a growling look . |
| 13 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 14 | No doubt he had just given something to Mrs Files . |
| 15 | When the Dauphine had just given birth ( in front of numerous ambassadors , foreign princes and courtiers ) , a sheep was skinned alive in her bedroom so that the exhausted mother could be wrapped in its fleece . |
| 16 | I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation . |
| 17 | She had just given her body — so long and so carefully guarded — for a length of brown satin . |
| 18 | How her mother had just given birth to another child , her fifth , this time a boy . |
| 19 | So she agreed to ‘ Linda ’ , and to wearing more dark colours in future , and to giving her opinion more decidedly about art … which led the subject back to the book Belinda had just given Faye . |
| 20 | In the second column , she filled in the address Bridget had just given her — Cherry Cottage , Buckland Dinham , Somerset . |
| 21 | Another example of Portia 's dishonesty is shown when she tests Bassanio with the ring she had just given to him . |
| 22 | He had just given her a triumph and had got no more reaction than if he had held a door open for her . |
| 23 | Ben and I had just given a recital in Vienna . |
| 24 | It was the following weekend and Rachel was helping her father , who had just given the lawn its last cut before winter , to dispose of the grass cuttings on the compost heap at the bottom of the garden . |
| 25 | It seemed he had just given up and was letting her go graciously and tenderly . |
| 26 | If she had needed further proof that he was without scruples or morals in his personal life , he had just given it to her . |
| 27 | In those moments , those final moments as he took her and reached ecstasy , she had been able to believe he loved her , felt something for her ; and , though she knew he did not , she was moved , wanted to retain those precious moments which he had just given her when he had finally stripped the mask away and let her see how human he was as he merged with her and lost himself inside her . |
| 28 | I would have behaved in the same manner , but I would not have apologised to a man who had just given such a small sentence for the criminal act of killing two innocent victims . |