Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] give [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 I sha n't be in today as it 's Monday , but I 've given your name to Bill , the head librarian , and he 's expecting you .
2 But I decided to give my countryman a chance , not that I 'd moved four thousand miles to be shown around London by a fellow American , and a hick from the provinces to boot .
3 She 's an extravagant girl , but I suppose given her looks , it is only natural to make the most of herself . ’
4 But I have given my word to la Principessa , I have said I would ask you to come with me , and you have agreed .
5 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 .
6 But she 'd given her promise , albeit with great reluctance , not to confide the truth to her friend .
7 Then er on a Saturdays our slaughterhouse was , our slaughterhouse was still open up the street then and we used to perhaps kill twelve , fourteen pigs for private people , but they had to give their ration up , six months ' or twelve months ' ration up to have these pigs .
8 André was far too exuberant to be shattered by something like that , but it had given her ego a kick .
9 Not that our sort is given to bragging in any case , but it had given my dad — a branch manager for one of the High Street banks — a certain quiet satisfaction to be able to let his staff know that his son was ‘ going up ’ to Oxford .
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