Example sentences of "i be give a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'm giving a voice to the hundreds of people who do n't have a voice . |
| 2 | " A likely thing it would be if I were to give a drink of milk to every beggar who passed through ! " exclaimed the second brother . |
| 3 | I was given a pile of sacristy wash rather than vests , sheets and shirts . |
| 4 | They ca n't bite you , but I was given a bottle of gin and told to go out and sit on the stairs . |
| 5 | I was given a couple of interviews straight off which , though unsuccessful , were useful practice and I felt confident that something would soon turn up . |
| 6 | I was given a dummy in which to do my preliminary sketches , but the dummy was designed so beautifully by Amelia Edwards that I was really happy with my work . |
| 7 | Recently , I was given a copy of an old book , A guide to the Fishing Inns of Scotland , by R. Crombie Saunders , one-time editor of The Scottish Angler , and published in 1951 . |
| 8 | ‘ When I was there I was given a copy of a US Senate foreign relations report which alleged that a large number of British POWs from the Second World War had disappeared in Soviet hands , and that a number of United Nations troops had been taken by the Soviets from the Chinese during the Korean War and never returned . |
| 9 | ‘ On reporting , ’ he recalled , ‘ I was given a piece of steel ( distorted ) , a hacksaw , a file and a square and told to make two sides square , which I quickly did . ’ |
| 10 | I was given a list of 12 absolutes that if the promoter could not provide , I was to cancel the gig on the spot . |
| 11 | Although I was shackled to a radiator , my blindfold was removed and I was given a cup of water and a sweetmeat . |
| 12 | Hitch-hiking home from London to Wales after attending my interviews , I was given a lift on a roundabout outside Monmouth in South Wales . |
| 13 | I was given a set of exercises to do , and since then I 've been all right . ’ |
| 14 | But still United pushed forward , Simpson a free kick went over the cross bar in the twenty third minute and then , just as I was giving a flash to Radio Oxford listeners , United pulled one back on the half hour . |
| 15 | The reference to the ‘ friend ’ had to do with my association with the Speech Institute , where I was giving a course of lectures on what the Directress , Miss Marjorie Gullan , liked to call ‘ Modernist Poetry ’ ( for it was still considered that ‘ poetry ’ ended with the Georgians , whom we had all studied at school , and that Pound and Eliot were advanced experimenters ) . |
| 16 | But if you think about it in contemporary terms I I was giving a lecture in London er a couple of weeks ago erm on the subject of erm America 's changing foreign policy under Clinton if you just think about foreign policy making and who makes it , and questions of consistency and you think about some of the crises that are going on in the world from Bosnia and so on what does the constitution tell us ? |