Example sentences of "give [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Film and Filming magazine said the film had given everyone an insight into the thinking of Corman and Nicholson . |
| 2 | The Coalisland — Dungannon march had given everyone a good day out and had used up a lot of their energy by the time the moment of confrontation arrived . |
| 3 | The camcorder has given everyone the chance to star in their own home movies . |
| 4 | It 's given everyone at the club a lift . ’ |
| 5 | He had always done that at his pre-production party , given everyone a carnation to wear , but this time he had overreached himself . |
| 6 | ‘ The nature garden has given everyone a lift and will be somewhere that the children can enjoy . ’ |
| 7 | Of the other 13 POWs , six were given nothing , five either died at that time or could not be traced , and two refused to submit to means testing . |
| 8 | All received reduced winter wages with eleven given nothing at all . |
| 9 | Writers and technicians were put on contract , then given nothing to do . |
| 10 | The press had been given nothing but ‘ blurry , distorted photographs culled from television shots of occasions in the past at which North happened to be present ’ ; at best , ABC News had shown ‘ pictures of the back of a man 's head that may or may not have been North 's as the man got into an Embassy car in Cyprus on the occasion of the homeward flight of one of the hostages ’ . |
| 11 | More positively , I was being given what I did not want ( which amounted to being given nothing ) and being classified as what I was not ( which amounted to being classified as nothing ) . |
| 12 | Since joining his local unit , however , he had been given nothing to do but monotonous night drilling in almost inaccessible fields with shovels or hurleys as substitute rifles , dire shortage of arms and ammunition having restricted the unit to only two sessions of real firing practice . |
| 13 | Lorton 's tone had given nothing away , but Dougal could imagine how he must feel . |
| 14 | And yet Maurice appeared to be almost proud , because Harry was not a customer , but somebody who had demanded a favour and given nothing in return . |
| 15 | In his place the cool , detached Dane who had taken nothing she had n't been prepared to give — and given nothing she had n't been prepared to take . |
| 16 | The Secretary of State has given nothing today but bland generalities , and the situation will continue as it is until there is a change of Government policy . |
| 17 | Tories in Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd 's constituency have given nothing to Conservative party funds over the past year . |
| 18 | Tories in Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd 's constituency have given nothing to Conservative party funds over the past year . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It did n't mean he had n't given someone else 's . |
| 21 | The call would have given someone the chance to replace the spare set in the security cupboard here . |
| 22 | She was sure that at some point she 'd given someone the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing . |
| 23 | Managers often view a job at Shell , where they are given plenty of decisions to make early on in their career , as an alternative to taking an MBA . |
| 24 | Standing 16.3hh , Ambassador was given plenty of time to mature , only beginning his competitive career at the start of the current season , and testimony to his brilliance is the fact that he is only a couple of points away from being Advanced . |
| 25 | Manifestations of sexuality are , by contrast , given plenty of space . |
| 26 | While this is taking place they should be given plenty of nourishing food and a varied diet . |
| 27 | Being a very tall and large plant , it should be given plenty of room , and ideally should be grown as an accent plant . |
| 28 | Because of the large size of the plant it should be given plenty of room to develop , especially as an accent plant . |
| 29 | However , if given plenty of room it will eventually slowly establish and flourish . |
| 30 | I fancy SPANIARDS CLOSE , who was given plenty to do and stayed on strongly to finish second to Ashtina off a high mark in a hot handicap at Ascot early last time . |