Example sentences of "[vb past] give [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I tried to give it more than one one word at a time it falls over and core dumps . |
| 2 | I really felt I 'd given myself totally to African life . " |
| 3 | Sometimes , after I 'd given them back their money , the customer would open the palm of their hand and I would discover that one of the coins I had passed over had suddenly disappeared so I ended up having to give them even more bees and honey . |
| 4 | ‘ At the time , you remember , you 'd given me very little information to go on . |
| 5 | He 'd given her so much and she would never forget him , but she would never confuse what they had shared with that elusive emotion — love . |
| 6 | ‘ After he 'd given you how much ? ’ asked Joe . |
| 7 | Right now there were quite there were a few people who gave me their books There were a few people who who gave me their books but I mean Erm this was the first homework I 'd given you actually that er that I 'd you know given so I would like to see an improvement in this performance please . |
| 8 | After three weeks , during which time it became clear she might be in her dotage before she mastered the Warsaw Concerto , she 'd given it up . |
| 9 | We 'd have mixed appetites if you 'd given it any thought . |
| 10 | He prepared to give himself over to whatever fate Lucifer had in store for him . |
| 11 | Sparta had taken Delphi out of Phokian control ; Athens intervened to give it back to the Phokians , and that was that . |
| 12 | Carlos Alberto Reutemann , that cunning , solitary ace from Argentina , worried about his racing twenty-four hours a day ; James seemed to give it scarcely a thought — technically , as a contributor to development he was something less than a devoted genius ( but on the track he had extraordinarily good reflexes and a lot of savvy ) . |
| 13 | On the costume side the addition of ‘ Mickey Mouse ’ feet strove to give them both an alien and a slightly comic appearance , again emphasising the points Whitaker wanted stressed from the script about these quizzical little xenophobics . |
| 14 | Well you got to give it back some time , may as well get him to do it tomorrow when he 's in . |
| 15 | It was when he attempted to argue , ‘ I would n't be bothered if I never had another ride in the National , ’ that he began to give himself away . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've always been very aware that I needed to give something back after this experience and when I read about the appeal for people prepared to give homes to the Bosnians , I decided it was time I stepped in . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Anyway , I 've been so lucky in life I reckon it 's about time I started giving something back — and the club 's the perfect place to do it . ’ |
| 18 | on how he managed to give them up . |
| 19 | However — although these contortions saved me from the worse excesses of daily racism , my face kept giving me away . |
| 20 | Our passing was n't up to their standard ( ! ) and we kept giving it away too often . |
| 21 | And they er er they said people getting on this train er it was on the eleven , platform eleven near to where we were make sure , they kept giving it out giving it out , you must get out at Leamington Spa if you want Banbury . |
| 22 | Something about the fact that this chap stammered gave me more confidence . |
| 23 | Erm , there 's a question of a rally in Central Hall , now in order to organise this pensioner 's rally there short of funds , erm , I think the executive will be discussing this and as , as before we did give them quite a considerable donating , because it costs a thousand pounds to hire the centre hall and we do want to erm take part in a very big rally , like the last one was . |
| 24 | But you did give her quite a blow . |
| 25 | But it did give him yet one more advantage in a situation already loaded against her . |
| 26 | Other reports said up to a dozen wanted people had given themselves up in Tulkarm . |
| 27 | The prison department said that by 9.30am the vast majority of prisoners had surrendered and by 11.15 the remaining handful of inmates had given themselves up . |
| 28 | On it were her confirmation cross and the farthing Rob had given her soon after they met . |
| 29 | Her response — such a lighting up of her face — made me remember how few times it was likely she had been kissed in her whole life : not as a child , by the parents who had given her away ; not by her old foster parents ; not often , I guessed , even by Beatrice and her boys . |
| 30 | Mrs Stevens had given her up as drowned but said little to Mr Johnson . |