Example sentences of "they 've given " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the only thing they 've given me so far are heels like ungrated Parmesan cheese . |
| 2 | ‘ They 've given me a roomette or some such , but I take this thing seriously . |
| 3 | They 've given me a theatre for a season . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Only afterwards is it plain that , for the most part , they 've given the same answers they 've supplied to the press for years . |
| 7 | In the meantime they 've given me this to go on with , ’ he answered , throwing our ration card across the table . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It 's a compliment in itself that they 've given me the chance … ’ |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | As John Major said , they 've given us a bloody nose . |
| 13 | Or rather they 've given our county councillors a bloody nose by throwing them out , and the councillors are taking it out on us . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He would have them sell some peculiar stock , saying : " They 've given us this to get rid of , as we 're the top team . |
| 16 | That 's why a blood donor if they 've given a pint of blood they 're told not to smoke afterwards if they 're a smoker . |
| 17 | You tend to be rather poorly which is why they 've given you the blood transfusion . |
| 18 | Let's have a look at the ones that they 've given you . |
| 19 | But you look at the diagram they 've given you which is not exactly the scale and they do this quite a bit . |
| 20 | ‘ Pauper … rip off the clothes … starve them … whip the flesh … see on them the scars they 've given … ’ |
| 21 | Erm so we wish to thank them all , or I wish to thank them all very much for all their hard work and support they 've given me . |
| 22 | ‘ They 've given up boiler suits , ’ said Constance , ‘ some time ago — except for the pregnant ones , and that 's a mistake if you like . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ They 've given me a lot of furniture and other things that have been passed down through the generations . |
| 24 | They 've given me the main facts . |
| 25 | And they 've given you they 've actually given you , not in this one , but they do give you the clefs here . |
| 26 | They 've given you the clefs . |
| 27 | So in the first case they 've given him , the first place they 've given him six six six five allowances but then they pull back the total of those three . |
| 28 | So in the first case they 've given him , the first place they 've given him six six six five allowances but then they pull back the total of those three . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But they 've a they 've given us that because we ca n't get any of the help . |