Example sentences of "give [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However with time this subsided and never once have the boots given my blisters . |
| 2 | Once again , I 'd given my film to David . |
| 3 | The Brighton-based fighter , who stopped Benn in their WBO middleweight title fight in November 1990 , added : I 've nothing to prove by fighting Benn again , so if we do meet I 've got to be given my passport to retirement . ’ |
| 4 | I have given my consent to his being in my study , but on this occasion the initiative was mine . |
| 5 | I just felt like I would have given my right arm to be there with a camera — and that stayed in my mind for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | Whatever may be said about his lordship these days — and the great majority of it is , as I say , utter nonsense — I can declare that he was a truly good man at heart , a gentleman through and through , and one I am today proud to have given my best years of service to . |
| 7 | I was given my pre-op by a ‘ bank nurse ’ . |
| 8 | Why , in the past week alone I have given my views on nuclear disarmament , the Middle East , world hunger , racism in the dairy industry , the proper depth to set okra seedlings and the supremacy of angst in the first two volumes of Winnie the Pooh . |
| 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 . |
| 10 | Within a fortnight , the committee had reconvened and given my father free life membership . |
| 11 | I doubt it , given my firm 's experience . |
| 12 | I have given my consent , intending to gratify her wishes in this respect only for a short while . |
| 13 | If I had given my advice it would have been ignored . ’ |
| 14 | Given my own predicament , I was left in no doubt that Cooper and Murphy had also been fitted up . |
| 15 | They have a very special significance , and how I wish I had known how to press flowers when I was given my first red roses by my husband , but unfortunately I learnt a few years too late ! |
| 16 | Given my background , as described in the previous chapter , it is not surprising that I should have felt particularly sensitive on this point . |
| 17 | Given my reputation for intelligence , I hardly dared confess my lack of comprehension . |
| 18 | I was still at the time in a relationship with a man I had lived with for four years and was emotionally dependent on , in more ways than one given my immigrant status in this country . |
| 19 | ‘ It has given my wife and I a lot of comfort . |
| 20 | Back then , I 'd have given my right arm to have had the opportunity you 've collared . |
| 21 | Mark says , ‘ I 'd given my consent to AID but I could n't have told you how I might feel if Wendy did conceive . |
| 22 | The Chief-Corporal to whom I had given my sisters ' addresses at Canjuers was there , and he told me that he had sent my oldest sister a photograph of himself in a tank and one of his apartment in La Rochelle . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been given my marching orders . |
| 24 | I have irresponsibly given my first preference to a candidate of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party . |
| 25 | I have capriciously given my second preference to a candidate of the Communist Party . |
| 26 | I have given my third and fourth preferences to candidates who , if not exactly " worthless " , know as well as I do they have no chance of being elected . |
| 27 | I have given my filth-preference vote to one of them , and together with other much-transferred votes it may determine his election . |
| 28 | After I have given my first three preferences to Apple , Banana and Cherry my fourth preference , if I express one , will count only if Apple , Banana and Cherry have been either elected or eliminated . |
| 29 | " I have given my word , and I wish to keep it , " she said eventually . |
| 30 | There are some instructions I should have given my secretary . ’ |