Example sentences of "they have given " in BNC.
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| 1 | They put in my real balance which was something like £7.50 — but they 'd given me their stamp . |
| 2 | Suddenly , as we were walking on , we heard the dogs barking in that frantic , menacing way that could only mean they 'd given chase . |
| 3 | Fortunately they 'd given her the job back at the shoe shop , and she and I had to spend only evenings and weekends together . |
| 4 | ‘ I think it would have been brilliant if they 'd given him more of a chance and if he 'd given a bit more . |
| 5 | Yeah , but , but did n't you when you got here they 'd given you , do n't you remember ? |
| 6 | Erm it would have been better if they 'd given you some information to say , They all voted for at least one |
| 7 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 8 | And you know , you always you er give , gave your number you see and er course some people I believe had an a I believe in later days they 'd given the older numbers out again , I do n't know wh you know , because some people that 've joined since me have got an older number , so I do n't know whether they 've given the ol they were sort of long since run out , you know . |
| 9 | They 'd given him some papers , and somebody had gone to the cashier for his money ( it made a nice fat bulge in his hip pocket ; he patted it now and again as he walked , just to make sure it was still there ) and eventually he 'd signed some papers . |
| 10 | ‘ Only one , ’ said Ken , ‘ and that was n't because I forgot it : it was because they 'd given me bad directions . ’ |
| 11 | But surely not as furious as he would have been afterwards , if they 'd given way to the temptations of their flesh ? |
| 12 | All the activity around his earth , and the fact that there were a mere three hounds , had combined to make him think the open country might be safer today ; now they 'd given him proof that it was n't . |
| 13 | He proceeded to remind her verbally as she followed him sheepishly out through the dining-room to a wide archway that led to the terrace , though she did n't need this painful reminder of the way they 'd given in to their wild passion every evening in Seville . |
| 14 | So I went in and told them and they 'd given me wrong sack . |
| 15 | Well normally they 'd given them dressing gowns before but it 's the first time they 've had gowns is n't it ? |
| 16 | A huge £50 million has been raised for charity since the race started in 1981 and runners can pat themselves on the back for all the financial help they have given to worthy causes . |
| 17 | In fact the only thing they 've given me so far are heels like ungrated Parmesan cheese . |
| 18 | ‘ They 've given me a roomette or some such , but I take this thing seriously . |
| 19 | They 've given me a theatre for a season . |
| 20 | In the '70s and the '90s they 've given us Crispin Twat 's ‘ Fruit Bowl in Oils ’ and Cud — the last of the great art school rockers . |
| 21 | From the interviews they 've given , you get the impression that The Shamen buy all this unquestioningly , that ‘ Boss Drum ’ should really have been called ‘ Terence McKenna Says ’ . |
| 22 | Only afterwards is it plain that , for the most part , they 've given the same answers they 've supplied to the press for years . |
| 23 | In the meantime they 've given me this to go on with , ’ he answered , throwing our ration card across the table . |
| 24 | My Uncle Stan and Aunt Alice are very good to me and more than good to Carrie , they 've given her a start in life she would never have had here . |
| 25 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
| 26 | It 's a compliment in itself that they 've given me the chance … ’ |
| 27 | They 've given me an elbow crutch , and I can make the journey perfectly well now , if I thought the blasted train would stay on the lines , but there 's not much I could do once I got to Moila , is there , if I ca n't walk ? |
| 28 | As John Major said , they 've given us a bloody nose . |
| 29 | Or rather they 've given our county councillors a bloody nose by throwing them out , and the councillors are taking it out on us . |
| 30 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |