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Example sentences for "have given"

  • The doctors have n't given me up, but I have given them up.

  • But I don't suppose that--I have given that up.

  • But I have n't any now--I have given them up.

  • I have given her a choice of Rome or the Nile," said Gordon, "but she tells me she does n't care a fig where we go.

  • I used to think that I was a man, but I have given that up; I am a poor creature!

  • We have given a ball; I send you a paper describing the event.

  • I have given up the big house for just now; we go ahead right away with a small one, which should be ready in two months, and I suppose will suffice for just now.

  • Though I have given all I had, I have received a thousand times more than I have given.

  • I have not yet won the great and vital fight of my life, to which I have given myself, heart and soul, for the past thirty years--the campaign for woman suffrage.

  • I have convinced your mind, Mr. Armadale, at any rate; so the time we have given to this discussion has not been altogether lost.

  • If you speak to Major Milroy, pray remember the caution I have given you!

  • On the contrary, I have given you a quarter of an hour of my valuable time already.

  • She was no longer able to juggle with several ideas, but must deal with the most persistent, and a kind of melancholy replaced her excitement.

  • Mother had all the life crushed out of her.

  • Mrs. Dalloway hid a tiny yawn, a mere dilation of the nostrils.

  • To give me money would be to take away your trust, to take away the object that you have given me, to take away the only certain thing that saves me from the river.

  • What would I have given, to have been sent to the hardest school that ever was kept!

  • All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee.

  • All the firstfruits of the sanctuary which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy sons and daughters, by a perpetual ordinance.

  • And I have given to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel for a possession, for the ministry wherewith they serve me in the tabernacle of the covenant: 18:22.

  • But the firstfruits, which the children of Israel shall vow and offer, I have given to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters, by a perpetual law.

  • Because the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you, that you may make atonement with it upon the altar for your souls, and the blood may be for an expiation of the soul.

  • Tom, that but for them fellers never being in the way when they was wanted, she'd have given him in charge, she would.

  • Mrs Todgers, 'what would I have given to have prevented this?

  • Lizzy," said her father, "I have given him my consent.

  • The reason why all this was to be done by him alone, was such as I have given above.

  • Well, it is a great responsibility that I take upon myself, but I have given Hopkins an excellent hint, and if he can't avail himself of it I can do no more.

  • I have given you a serious shock by my unnecessarily dramatic reappearance.

  • My dear fellow, I have given it every consideration.

  • And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

  • And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.

  • For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

  • Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

  • I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.

  • I have given a very good account of you,' said she, 'which I hope you may justify.

  • I am not prepared to admit that I have given any,' replied Romaine; 'certainly none that did not fall in the sphere of my responsibilities.

  • For there was not a family in that whole district that would, with their good will, have given us an hour's repose, or a morsel of bread.

  • I cannot tell you to what a state of agitation I am reduced by dreaming of this idea, and the time I have given to planning its execution.

  • Two books, however, have given me wonderful pleasure--Corinne and Adolphe.

  • I have given myself to you absolutely and for the mere joy of giving, for a single glance of your eye, for a touch of the hand which one day you offered to your Spanish master.

  • Renee, what would I have given then to rest my head upon your shoulder, or to transport myself to the days when my grandmother made the life of these rooms?

  • I have given my message, is it your pleasure that I should go?

  • I was the assistant of that Andres de Fonseca whose counsel you put aside to your ruin, and I have given a certain drug to the abbess yonder.

  • Except certain sums that I have given to be spent in charities--not in masses, mind you--I have left you all I possess.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bottom heat; certain sort; colonial times; common parlance; dead and; equal opportunity; five thousand four hundred; gray matter; have been; have found; have given; have heard; have made; have taken; her ear; holy things; human reason; intermittent fever; mechanical appliances; more comfortable; pretty girl; protection against; respectable woman; send back; several thousand; whose family