Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 2 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 3 | If I was a fish then I needed water and I had given up my right to it . |
| 4 | And I had to give Prentice full marks for cheek when I did . |
| 5 | ‘ I jumped out of my seat , my headphones flew off and I started giving her mouth-to-mouth . |
| 6 | You le you left it in the room today , I picked it up and I forgot to give it you . |
| 7 | ‘ I was driving home from Berkeley today and I stopped to give a chap a lift , and look who it was . ’ |
| 8 | I know that the teenage years I describe are years when feelings about your self-image are more intense than any other , and I wanted to give young women themselves the chance to express what these feelings are . |
| 9 | My appointment was in Alès at eleven and I wanted to give myself plenty of time to find the place , so I decided to leave straight away . |
| 10 | The last show of the tour was in Atlanta and I decided to give a little party for the singers and musicians and the crew and I tried to rent a banquet room at the hotel , but because it was Thanksgiving Weekend , they said they could only give me a suite . |
| 11 | By this time Desmond had nearly stopped on the flarepath and I decided to give him a wide berth . |
| 12 | That wonderful love they had shared and which had given her the precious gift of a son . |
| 13 | The latter is a good example of his more extended type of cantata with fewer but longer sections than Rossi 's : The opening of the duet will also illustrate one of Carissimi 's most striking characteristics , his genuine sense of key : The slow , uncertain supersession of mode by key had not yet generally revealed the possibilities of tonality for variety and dynamic structure ; composers still treated a key very much as a mode , a tonal area within which they could move and from which they wandered uncertainly , and which helped to give unity to a composition . |
| 14 | I said we needed a weekend , real time , for both of us , and you said give it time . |
| 15 | Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman . |
| 16 | Then , for the first time in three decades , Mr Wolski had reached out his hands and touched the eagle he had loved and who had given him such comfort for so long . |
| 17 | No one has ever spoken of the child who must have been born to Dierdriu , and who had given birth to himself and Grainne . |
| 18 | It was late and she 'd given , they were coming out when I got round there ! |
| 19 | Her hair , which had always been her most attractive feature , was now lined with grey , and she had given up dying it black . |
| 20 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 21 | At this point the GP had felt that she could no longer help him , and she had given him the number of a marital counsellor . |
| 22 | Her blue skirt and jacket made her eyes look like azure pools , and she had given herself extra time to wash her hair , which now framed her face with tendrils of spun gold . |
| 23 | She had invited several friends to lunch the next day , and she had given no thought to what to cook . |
| 24 | And she had given a certain name to it , and I ca n't remember what the name was now , something like fiddling , I mean fiddling is too obvious , it was n't that , but it was something like that , an ordinary everyday term like that . |
| 25 | Then everybody wanted it and she had to give up a bit of buttermaking she also did to cope with the demand . |
| 26 | She got her bag out and she said give me my bag . |
| 27 | I gave it to Mrs Barrymore , and she promised to give it to him at once . ’ |
| 28 | And she did give the key to Phyllis . |
| 29 | Once this had been achieved , and we had given each other that little nod of recognition with which one acknowledges an intellectual equal , I moved on to the question that really interested me , which was how Alison came to know Thomas Carter in the first place . |
| 30 | Our passing was n't up to their standard ( ! ) and we kept giving it away too often . |