Example sentences of "[coord] she [verb] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was late and she 'd given , they were coming out when I got round there ! |
| 2 | Her hair , which had always been her most attractive feature , was now lined with grey , and she had given up dying it black . |
| 3 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 4 | At this point the GP had felt that she could no longer help him , and she had given him the number of a marital counsellor . |
| 5 | Her blue skirt and jacket made her eyes look like azure pools , and she had given herself extra time to wash her hair , which now framed her face with tendrils of spun gold . |
| 6 | She had invited several friends to lunch the next day , and she had given no thought to what to cook . |
| 7 | And she had given a certain name to it , and I ca n't remember what the name was now , something like fiddling , I mean fiddling is too obvious , it was n't that , but it was something like that , an ordinary everyday term like that . |
| 8 | Or at least by one maiden , and she has given me battle . |
| 9 | ‘ She very kindly invited me to lunch and she has given me a lot of useful information . ’ |
| 10 | And she 's given up her one night a week in the W which |
| 11 | Do you know what if we come up tonight cos erm a woman came to the door , a woman came to the door this afternoon and she 's given us a Walkman with a microphone on it and we 've to tape all the conversations with it |
| 12 | An ’ then , within a few years , they 'd got the babby an' she 'd given up teaching . |
| 13 | But she had given up telling Gloria about what went on each day . |
| 14 | But she had given up all hope of Joss Barnet returning that evening and nothing else in the world mattered . |
| 15 | But she had given him neither an address nor a telephone number ; and the complexities of finding either had posed rather too much of a problem on a transatlantic line . |
| 16 | If he failed to come up with explanations to put everything right then , and then only , would he have to face the consequences himself , for it was clear now that she would have to leave — disengage herself from him , as Marc had so succinctly put it — but she had given her word and she would wait until the whole matter could be discussed openly . |
| 17 | But she had given it little thought during this time with Fernando . |
| 18 | But she 'd given her promise , albeit with great reluctance , not to confide the truth to her friend . |
| 19 | I keep on asking but she 's given me three different answers up to now ; that Deborah felt a bit depressed , that they 'd been out very late to the last show at the cinema in Via Romana which is very near to Piazza Pitti . ’ |
| 20 | but she 's given me some deep cream , she says these spasms she |