Example sentences of "[adv] given i [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They have all given me a tremendous amount of help , and I know that any help or guidance I want in the future will be there .
2 Jane Daly has just given me a copy of the new Capital Equipment RTP forms .
3 I 'm going tomorrow morning there anyway cos Roy 's just given me a call , they 've got some problems with screw support bearings locking up , but er I 'll go over there some time
4 So you 're feeling relaxed and comfortable and good because you 're telling me , you know , what a great tennis player I am and I really enjoy it , you 've just given me a couple of names that I 'll either make a note of or I 'll say that 's interesting cos I actually deal with Joe on a business relationship anyway erm maybe we could meet some other people from the tennis club , self employed people , professional people such as yourself , who might be interested in looking at financial planning but today I 'm more interested in talking about you Bill , erm we 'll come back to them a bit later if I may so let's press on .
5 I 'm supposed to think that you 've just given me the OK . ’
6 Flaubert was delighted with the story : ‘ Do you know , Lapierre , you 've just given me the subject of a novel , the counterpart of my Bovary , a Bovary of high society .
7 They have just given me the reasons why , which , as I see it , I am not at liberty to reveal at this stage .
8 ‘ He said : ‘ Man , nobody 's ever given me a fight like that .
9 There 's no problems with York , they always given me a good service in the past .
10 I did n't much like it , mice and such like have always given me the creeps , but I did feel sorry for it being shut up .
11 I knew better than to attempt to hug Mr Broadhurst , although that was what I felt like doing , for not only did everything in his manner discourage physical relations , he had also given me a strict injunction .
12 That 's okay , she 's also given me the right words to use to put it through urgently , okay , cos I mean you , I know you have n't exchanged yet , but you want to do that fairly quickly .
13 I was neither Jew nor English nor white , or even a proper Indian or a proper Pakistani ; but my travels through Europe and stay in the USA and my near acceptance there as a living entity capable of suffering pain and enjoying pleasure had temporarily given me a sort of quasi-human status , further aggravated by those willing to be my sexual partners ; I had become spoilt and pampered .
14 He has now given me a further , and most embarrassing proof of his confidence by asking me to take charge of his son and heir , aged two-and-a-half months , for a short time .
15 I left the FO feeling bruised and battered ; they had really given me the works .
16 If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day .
17 Now this year what I 've done is actually going to see the form teacher and look at the classes and they 've actually given me a lot more information this year and hopefully , keep our fingers crossed , the classes are very varied and we have good , we have middling , and we have the not so good and we 've tried to keep those like that .
18 In fact I broadcast that material , but I cut it into three programmes , and I , I cut in the questions I would have asked if he 'd actually given me a chance to ask them .
19 I 'm allowed to do anything , my mum will let me drink , smoke , take drugs , anything really , well well she probably would n't actually but , you know she never tells me off , she 's never lectured me about anything , she 's never given me a talk on
20 Fate , thought Charlotte , gazing innocently back into his admiring , devoted , humiliated and furious face , has certainly given me the upper hand of you , my boy !
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