Example sentences of "[verb] that [pers pn] have given " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently in an attempt to deny the accusation , Ahmed al-Zahrani reportedly claimed that he had given Maha Banat 500 Riyals for sexual favours . |
| 2 | If you tell anyone your Personal Number and that person withdraws money from your account , then the Bank will consider that you have given permission to take money from your account and the Bank will not take any responsibility for the loss . |
| 3 | On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example . |
| 4 | Whilst the law is designed to give succour in times of difficulty to those who do their best , it will show little mercy to those who are at the receiving end of proceedings who can not demonstrate that they have given the highest priority . |
| 5 | Lost in his thoughts , he hardly realized that he had given up folding the pamphlets . |
| 6 | When Jenson continues that the reason why the biblical God is called ‘ Father ’ is that the attempt is being made to get away from sexuality , with which women are more naturally to be associated , we may think that he has given the game away ! |
| 7 | If the council thinks that you have given away or used up savings in order to qualify for , or increase the amount of your benefit they can treat you as still having those savings . |
| 8 | He could take her away , I thought , he could just do that , he has such power to hurt me , this little furry creature who has n't even noticed that I 've given up the weed . |
| 9 | ‘ Only the day before , you came barging into the flat , insinuating that I 'd given information to Richard Blake . |
| 10 | Well I hope that I 've given you enough to get you started on the right tracks . |
| 11 | ‘ The record shows that we have given the courts the tools to do the job and that Labour has not supported us . ’ |
| 12 | But the Collector could see that he had given the order to fire too soon . |
| 13 | When Derek got the run they all cheered and a reporter commented that they had given him a great welcome , but could not possibly have known the significance of the run . |
| 14 | He replied that he had given it verbally to a police sergeant , but that he must have forgotten about it . |
| 15 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 16 | But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’ |
| 17 | Incidentally a trap here is to feel guilty when you find that you have given up doing the exercises that you so fervently swore you were going to do every day . |
| 18 | And then I feel that I 've given myself to somebody who thinks my heart is a pretty flower . |
| 19 | When our first Report on the primary stages was submitted to Mr Baker at the end of September 1988 , he felt that we had given insufficient emphasis to the teaching of grammar . |
| 20 | He felt that he had given enough . |
| 21 | This attitude was bitterly criticized by republican politicians who felt that he had given an enormous fillip to a rebellion that would otherwise have run out of steam . |
| 22 | She felt that she had given the whole thing away , that the Hare-woman 's eyes would be able to read all her thoughts from her face and that single word . |
| 23 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 24 | Now you think that because I am I am forgiven and I preach forgiveness that I would be pretty good as up people , but that 's part of my human failure and I must admit that I 've given plenty of opportunity to practice at home and at work er the opportunity to forgive , but it does n't come easily and certainly it is n't a strong feature of the non-Christian world in which I work and which you will be working soon . |
| 25 | In such discussions Zuwaya generally assumed that they had given offence unwittingly , and that malign actions were always done by others , requiring Zuwaya to pursue justice . |
| 26 | What was even more satisfying was knowing that she had given him that same lesson , not once but twice , this morning when she 'd stunned him by agreeing to see his grandmother on her own time , and last night , when she 'd turned away his advances , and never mind all that pretence about his not being interested . |
| 27 | A husband , for instance , may fail to realise that he has given his career or ministry a higher priority than his wife . |
| 28 | Whereas Charles Paris , who knew that he had given one of the best performances of his career in The Hooded Owl , was a name that the punters would n't know from a bar of soap . |
| 29 | Now he knew that he had given her what he had , and no one could give more . |
| 30 | I knew that he had given about 4,000 volumes , but I had kept this information to myself . |