Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [be] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 2 | Which meant that he had been giving it considerable quiet thought . |
| 3 | He hoped that I could undertake something in that line , especially in relation to Italy : for I had been giving him my impressions of the visit to Rome , which included encountering at close quarters , Mussolini , Count Ciano , and Edda his wife , and the by comparison rather puny Neville Chamberlain . |
| 4 | Ven swiftly reassured her , and — even while it was dawning on her how he was accepting her ‘ no ’ without question when she had been giving him a ‘ yes , yes , yes ’ for the past five minutes , he was reaching for her wrap . |
| 5 | Eileen Riddrie had proudly shown it to her the previous week , as she had been given it that very day for her birthday . |