Example sentences of "have give [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'd 've given it to you ; I was n't holding out .
2 The Word was made flesh in Jesus Christ ; God has given himself to be understood in our terms and on our level ; and even in these terms and on that level it is the reality of God that is given for us to understand .
3 We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years .
4 Even so , striking on or soon after January 15th would help Mr Bush underline , for the benefit of critics at home and abroad , the clear legal authority the UN has given him for military action .
5 Gail Smith writes ‘ The burden God has given me for Albania took root in 1982 the first time I ever heard mention of the country and people .
6 With a long journey ahead of me every morning and evening , I do n't hang about , and this is the first petrol-engined car I 've used that has given me over 45mpg on a run .
7 … the privilege which God has given me of being a servant of Christ Jesus …
8 I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues .
9 Eighth , they plant churches because ‘ God wants YWAM missionaries to build into local congregations the spiritual foundations ’ he has given them as a mission .
10 Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ?
11 I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature .
12 Or is it the picture God has given us of himself ?
13 If we make sure of the right answer to these questions we will develop the full , clear picture of God that he himself has given us in his revelation .
14 He care for the whole of mankind and has given us in the Bible a guide-book by which to live .
15 Check the output which CREFDL has given you against the example of a successful run of the command file as shown in Figure 2.1 .
16 ‘ Since the board has elected as a matter of practice not to give reasons , and has given none to Mr. Cunningham , it has been bound by its own logic not to attempt to justify for the benefit of the court the figure awarded .
17 I 've got this feeling that she has given it to Sophie
18 She 'd given them as a wedding present , she said , and never seen them used .
19 But once I 'd given them to him I never saw them again so I imagine he must have burnt them .
20 He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’
21 ‘ Liz lost a winning I 'd given her on a horse .
22 You 'd given yourself to the highest bidder — ’
23 ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him .
24 ‘ I thought I 'd given it to you , ’ John says .
25 ‘ I thought I 'd given it to you , ’ Paul says .
26 This was the man she 'd given herself to , willingly , wholeheartedly , by some mysterious process of transmutation from acute dislike to ardent desire , in the wild heat of last night … dislike and distrust had dissolved in the drugging excitement of his arms .
27 And once she 'd given herself to him , she 'd stay with him , one way or another .
28 The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person .
29 In the middle of many clashes and difficulties were the men whom I had met , and to whom , if I had been a true friend , I might have given something of the faith and spirit which could have helped them find a better way for their people .
30 Vecchi was certainly the key to this whole set-up , and I 'd have given plenty for half-an-hour 's peaceful talk with him .
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