Example sentences of "but [pron] have given " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to but I 've given up since my accident . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You do n't have to worry about those sheep , Seb , they 're as snug as bugs in a rug out there , but I 've given them some more hay , just in case . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already . |
| 5 | But I have given her up , and in any case she has meant nothing to me for years . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But I have given my word to la Principessa , I have said I would ask you to come with me , and you have agreed . |
| 7 | if that 's not her role , but you 've given her that role . |
| 8 | I would have died for you , but you have given yourself to a worthless man . |
| 9 | You do n't yet give us money , although I hope may , one day you will be persuaded to do so , but you have given us time , and particularly in the person of your colleague Sandra who is here , and her time to us has been enormously valuable and I want to thank you for that . |
| 10 | They 've all been joining in singing a Christmas carol but you have given me an idea for your present but you 'll have to hurry though - it 's Christmas Eve . |
| 11 | But she had given up telling Gloria about what went on each day . |
| 12 | But she had given up all hope of Joss Barnet returning that evening and nothing else in the world mattered . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But she had given it little thought during this time with Fernando . |
| 16 | But she 'd given her promise , albeit with great reluctance , not to confide the truth to her friend . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | but she 's given me some deep cream , she says these spasms she |
| 19 | ‘ As Roman Catholics , but we 've given it up . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But we 've given Black Michael a problem , ’ he said . |
| 21 | But we 've given him a thorough going over and I 'm sure it 's nothing more serious than a mild concussion . |
| 22 | Yeah , but we have given a promise to it |
| 23 | But they had given him photographs . |
| 24 | Southend are one off the bottom … but they 've given some of the top teams a run for their money this season … |
| 25 | They put in my real balance which was something like £7.50 — but they 'd given me their stamp . |
| 26 | But he had given it all up and returned to the business world as a marketing executive . |
| 27 | But he had given patient thought to the matter , just as he had to the rest of the alien anatomy ; and he had ventured on what I can only call an abstraction of the human face . |
| 28 | He 'd applied to join the police in his final year at university ; it had been an unfashionable thing to do but he 'd given it a lot of careful thought . |
| 29 | Erm but he 'd given me this number , Glen about Portakabins . |
| 30 | But he 's given it to you in two different types of notation , and you need to know both . |