Example sentences of "[pron] [be] give the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These questions are being asked now not just by political theorists , although some of them are giving the most considered answers . |
| 2 | ‘ I am to give the first reading . |
| 3 | I have a battle to win and would ask only that I am given the chance to do so without intrusion in my private life . |
| 4 | I am giving the industry two full years to bring in lined glasses . |
| 5 | The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has stated that , in the longer term — I am giving the hon. Member for Derby , North ( Mr. Knight ) his answer . |
| 6 | I believe that if I 'm given the chance to fight the George Forman of old , the George Forman of today would be the better . |
| 7 | ‘ OK , OK , now I 'm giving the sermon . |
| 8 | I 'm giving the chair the opportunity to erm er set the record straight on that point , that 's my question . |
| 9 | two fifty to come in , I do n't mind if I 'm giving the booze away ! |
| 10 | erm And as I said , we 're trying to , not that I 'm giving the opposite view to Doctor Plumtree , as I said , we 're trying to fund the people on the front line , you know , the foresters in their back yard , as it were , we 're trying to preserve it , and we also feel we 're not being patronising , it 's not like we 're writing out a large cheque and saying ’ here you are ’ , we 're actually putting a lot of time and effort into this , I mean , it 's now become a full time job for me and certainly for Dave Kester , and all the other people working on it . |
| 11 | I were given the chance . |
| 12 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 13 | I understood this only after I was given the Mont Blanc as a present . |
| 14 | I was given the option to have him put down at any time , but of course as time went on his recovery was more and more likely and my hopes got higher . |
| 15 | Whilst my sisters wiped up , from an early age I was given the task of transporting the clean china and utensils from the lid of the copper ( there was no draining board ) to the kitchen table for one of the adults to put away . |
| 16 | Finally I was given the number , but not the code for Guildford , connection being broken before I could ask for it . |
| 17 | Lucky me — I reckon I was given the best of both worlds . |
| 18 | I was given the inside lane and I was furious and protested . |
| 19 | I was given the address and telephone number of Iona Community House . |
| 20 | I was given the news last midnight and methought I would drown in the sorrow of my tears ! ’ |
| 21 | As Chairman of the National Curriculum English Working Group I was given the responsibility of deciding on programmes of study for all children from 5 to 16 , of putting right what I regarded as a major omission in the Kingman Report . |
| 22 | I was given the job of going to fetch the agent , but Dad offered to go and so I went with him . |
| 23 | Soon she took my visits for granted and I was given the spare key to let myself in the door . |
| 24 | Finally I was given the go ahead and everything could be resealed . |
| 25 | Once I was given the address of Mikhoels ' wife , Anastasiya Pavlovna Pototskaya , and I was told that she had a lot of Chagalls , and that she may possibly want to sell them . |
| 26 | As third man in the party I was given the job of carrying the large FRCC guidebook of those days . |
| 27 | Thanks to McAlpine Helicopters , the Aerospatiale helicopter distributor for the UK , I was given the chance to join the PPL rotor wing elite … if only for the day . |
| 28 | I was given the taste for bigger journalism . |
| 29 | The change in my approach to mathematics began when I joined an in-service Diploma in Mathematics Education.2 In the first week I was given the task of making a 3 x 3 x 3 wooden cube made up of three different pentacubes and three different tetracubes . |
| 30 | Well i it it meant er Monday mornings you went out , you were given er an area in the town , and I was given the money area , as I termed it , Road and that . |