Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] given [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I had n't given my permission . ’ |
| 2 | I 've already given their names to the constable in the library . |
| 3 | But I walk in yeah and he goes he goes hold on , now you 're Alistair , and I go yeah , and he goes I think I 've just given your three weekly to Jimmy . |
| 4 | ( I have just given my chaplain a good rap across the knuckles ; that will teach him to make remarks like , ‘ And Master Daunbey had good knowledge of fools , having you as a servant . ’ ) |
| 5 | I have already given my ruling on that and said exactly what the hon. Member should do about it . |
| 6 | Like you know , you 're sort of waiting for it , and then there 's this now would you like , and I thought , I have n't given my answer yet , and then erm , and just leave my name , cos I think |
| 7 | I have capriciously given my second preference to a candidate of the Communist Party . |
| 8 | I have irresponsibly given my first preference to a candidate of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party . |
| 9 | She has always given her time to support publication of her books , though she sometimes has doubts about how publicisable a novelist can be . |
| 10 | Her voice trailed away as she realised , from the other woman 's beaming smile of relief , that she 'd inadvertently given her hostess quite the wrong impression . |
| 11 | She had just given her body — so long and so carefully guarded — for a length of brown satin . |
| 12 | The whole approach to their wardrobe is more considered , but their trick is to make it look as though they have n't given their appearance more than a passing thought . |
| 13 | Highland Software , Palo Alto , California , has signed Software Research Associates , Japan 's largest independent software house , to distribute its Unix Flexlm network licence manager in Japan : it has also given its UK distributor , Productivity Through Software a charter for all of Europe . |
| 14 | He 'd probably given her pleasure with his tantrum . |
| 15 | But he had also given her time to think what she was doing . |
| 16 | He had not given his name in Russian and the bunk that was allocated to him was against the wall at the furthest stretch from the narrow band of heat that the boiler might service . |
| 17 | Stephen Langton , however , was consecrated by Innocent at Rome without the king 's assent , so that , although Innocent had acted within canonical rules , the king felt threatened by this election outside his court , to which he had not given his consent . |