Example sentences of "i [verb] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to give him a lead . |
| 2 | ‘ No , I 'ad to give half of it back , ’ breathed Dolly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Erm not any more I do n't I 've given them all away hello , are there any spare handouts in the room ? |
| 5 | I mean given the size of China I mean th there 'd be |
| 6 | Would you watch fo women fo , I mean given the |
| 7 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 8 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 9 | well there you are then , yeah she goes to school does n't she , well I think it 's sad I mean giving a child a name like that |
| 10 | I intend to give you a demonstration today based on work that Kevin has done . |
| 11 | Uncle says to nephew : ‘ I intend to give you my shares in the Super Company on your twenty-first birthday . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I intend to give myself a reward , ’ Merrill said , going over to his window and closing it . |
| 13 | ‘ I intend to give it a really good go , because I have the opportunity this year which I did n't have last season . ’ |
| 14 | Because I have on good information and I 'll say it for the first time on this programme , I intend to give this in my evidence tomorrow , that Rover intend to close not the south works first , but the north works first . |
| 15 | I agreed to give a dinner and it took place in my London home some weeks later . |
| 16 | ‘ When I took over the club from Connelly I agreed to give old Giuseppe there a job , ’ he explained . |
| 17 | I vill give you a game of dominoes , and if you vin … vell , den I buy you a drink . |
| 18 | I got to give you two eights . |
| 19 | I got to give you the cello . |
| 20 | I got to give him to you hold it |
| 21 | ‘ I got given a crate of this , it 's Château Margaux , by the small , fat and lecherous owner of one third of Singapore . |
| 22 | Apart from that it was jumble sales or what I got given . |
| 23 | Well I got given these when I was a rep at when I started , ten years ago and I 've still got half a dozen of these you know . |
| 24 | As I , well I got given orders . |
| 25 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 26 | ‘ I hate to give up when we 're so close . |
| 27 | When I 'm not working , I tend to give it a break from putting anything on it . |
| 28 | So I tend to give them a wide berth wherever possible . |
| 29 | ‘ No one knows more than me how much I owe to this country , how much I vow to give back to it for what it has done to me , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Camilla : I vow to give him up |