Example sentences of "i [be] give a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'm given a challenge I have to have a go at it , ’ he admits , reflecting on the guiding principles that have taken him to the top of two major industries . |
| 2 | The need for arousal thought well should I be absolutely calm when I 'm giving a presentation but I never am so is it right and now understanding that you need a certain level of arousal to be able to perform at all is is satisfying for me because at least I understand the situation now and able to work with it rather than against it . |
| 3 | And I 'm giving a voice to the hundreds of people who do n't have a voice . |
| 4 | Alice Mair said : ‘ I 'm giving a dinner party on Thursday evening . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm giving a dinner party , ’ said Elizabeth to Lydia with the odd composure of those who are conversationally inept and unaware of it . |
| 6 | " 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 . |
| 7 | I was given a pile of sacristy wash rather than vests , sheets and shirts . |
| 8 | Environmentalists have supported the miners against Pittston strip-mining and long-wall techniques , and I was given a badge which proclaimed ‘ I 'm Pro-Union and Pro-Choice ’ , linking the strike with the most inflammable issue in US politics today , abortion rights . |
| 9 | Details of the flight with map references , operating heights , times and working radius around a point were agreed , and I was given a reference number for future contacts . |
| 10 | For the first offence I was given a fine . |
| 11 | I was given a pay rise because they wanted him as well , you see . |
| 12 | I was given a crash course and then the necessary documents that have seen me through ever since . |
| 13 | I was given a day off of my annual leave to think it over . |
| 14 | I was given a cutting a few years ago by my sister and have subsequently passed on cuttings but have never known the proper name of it or much about it . |
| 15 | ‘ I was given a hero 's welcome when I visited my local pub , ’ says dockworker Jimmy , 38 . |
| 16 | They ca n't bite you , but I was given a bottle of gin and told to go out and sit on the stairs . |
| 17 | He just leaned on me and when he caught me with a left hook I was given a standing count . |
| 18 | I was given a choice . |
| 19 | We had just started our first lectures , when apart from helping to prepare the Sulphonamide paper I was given a weekend off to visit City Temple friends who had started a Community House at Highbury New Park . |
| 20 | I was given a beating too once . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In my own case I was given a section — a small area in the central division — with just over 300 crimes per year . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | You will recall that I wrote to you in June requesting that this work be carried out , and I was given a job number ( which I do not have to hand ) , but no date for the work to be done . |
| 28 | In nineteen eighty three from nineteen fifty three after thirty years of making cheese , they changed his job , I think many of you are ahead of me already , he said I was given a job change and I began working in landscaping , how nice while being interviewed some time ago I was asked what I thought about being giving a job change after thirty years of making cheese and he said well it did n't bother me , I noted , frankly because I did n't like making cheese anyway |
| 29 | I was given a card to copy from . |
| 30 | I was given a list of 12 absolutes that if the promoter could not provide , I was to cancel the gig on the spot . |