Example sentences of "have given " in BNC.
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| 1 | You feel good about the help you 've given perhaps , but you still wish the person would only ring when it 's essential . |
| 2 | It would 've given us another month to play with at least . |
| 3 | The controls are slow and unresponsive — let's face it , with the amount of platform beat-'em-ups around you 'd have thought the programmers would 've given a bit more care and attention to this aspect , not to mention the graphics , presentation … the game in general really . |
| 4 | I should 've given this some thought . |
| 5 | As a standalone machine I would 've given it a fourth star . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd 've given it to you ; I was n't holding out . |
| 7 | Roger I 'd 've given it you a lot quicker if you 'd given me a list of jobs to work on . |
| 8 | His silence encouraged her to be even more frank , and , looking to where the moonlight caught the line of his strong jaw , she said , ‘ I know you appreciate the help I 've given by stepping in to take Stella 's place , and for that reason I doubt that you would give me the sack — or tell me to go . |
| 9 | Right , from Highgate has said if the good lord wanted cats to fly he would 've given them wings , it 's cruel doing things like that to animals . |
| 10 | It was , Be blessings on thee , I mean and may God bless you for the help you 've given me . |
| 11 | That money could have electrified railways that would 've given industry a chance to get its goods into Europe . |
| 12 | You had a choice of an eight or a three I had two jacks and a king you chose the three , the two turned up that would 've given you eight and a but you picked the three so that 'll give you more in the box as well an three hit your three hit your hand as well so |
| 13 | I mean they could 've given them a wee , a wee two bedroom around our w our way rightly . |
| 14 | Erm not any more I do n't I 've given them all away hello , are there any spare handouts in the room ? |
| 15 | Sorry that was squared yeah so the differential of that would 've given us twice er would have given us twice that . |
| 16 | no good it 's three times too much so he must have started off with X cubed over three and that would 've given us one third of three X squared |
| 17 | No but you were saying before that had it worked it would 've given them a problem . |
| 18 | see you 've given her the |
| 19 | Professor Jonathan Mann , former director of the WHO Global AIDS Programme , has given his backing to ACET by joining Dr Everett Koop the former US Surgeon General , as an International Adviser . |
| 20 | ‘ When you 've done research on a country for years , you also get a sense of which groups have vested interests or political agendas , who can be trusted and who has given us reliable information , ’ said Smart . |
| 21 | Her course teacher has given her a reading list , and the library staff are good at helping students with all sorts of interests . |
| 22 | Ackroyd has given some readers the impression that the modern narrative , the paler of the two , is paler on purpose — in obedience , presumably , to the doctrine of time , of its runnings-down and recurrences , which figures in the novel . |
| 23 | Since its arrival in the eighteenth century , this is a literary mode which has recurrently been pronounced dead but which has been capable of renewal , and now Ackroyd has given a further turn to the wheel . |
| 24 | Zuckerman has enabled Roth to deal with the question of the offence he has given to righteous Jews , and to come to terms with the rebellious , psychedelic , philo-Semitic Sixties , when Roth 's writing went , with the times , derisive and fantastic . |
| 25 | He has dumped down the notes for a greyhound , has given his heart to the beast , and is derided for this by his friends in the pub . |
| 26 | It is common for students to return to a part that has given them many ideas , and to rework a passage fruitfully . |
| 27 | But now that Atholl has given way and condescended to meet the people — ‘ He is a diplomat , ’ said John Stewart . |
| 28 | and one which , as he has noticed while walking through the great houses of the world , ‘ has given many an anonymous carver a little power over the grave . ’ |
| 29 | A recent DSS Housing Benefit/Community Charge Benefit circular has given guidance about the treatment of income which is paid at intervals other than one week . |
| 30 | Increased usage of the VSOE Pullman train for repeat itinerary charter work on days when it is not required for the Folkestone run , has given prospective passengers some further options . |