Example sentences of "i [modal v] give " in BNC.
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| 31 | I should give it a miss when you come up north , it 's a bit chilly for that sort of thing , though I could knit you a winter fig leaf . |
| 32 | Your mother was saying perhaps I should give it to the kids , half to you , half to Debbie , but I said , no . |
| 33 | I 'm not sure I should give out their phone number , but their address is : |
| 34 | ‘ I should give it time , darling . |
| 35 | I know I should give a month 's notice but I 've got some leave due ; you can take that instead . ’ |
| 36 | Well I should give you er |
| 37 | " J'ai été très heureux d'avoir été compris par une si aimable Anglaise " , he said , and ended " if you were French I should give you a kiss . |
| 38 | I think I should give you some general information about Lilliput . |
| 39 | By rights I should give it up . |
| 40 | If I were a publisher , I should give John Mortimer a fat retainer to stand by ready to cover the Aids cause celebre from day one . |
| 41 | Even then I felt guilty about it , and felt I should give the money back . ’ |
| 42 | I do n't see why I should give mine up |
| 43 | You , I should give it him quick . |
| 44 | it was ever so good because I gave him fi , the doctor said , you know I should give him you know , eat just before five o'clock and you go |
| 45 | If I see one that looks like it 's growing good , I might give it some extra feed and talk to it a bit . ’ |
| 46 | I might give you a name one day and the next day the vacancy would be filled . |
| 47 | Were you for instance more comfortable with a Mother fixation , I might give you a Catholic programme or a Russian Orthodox icon system . |
| 48 | For example , if a person came to me suffering from rounded shoulders I might give him or her an instruction to ‘ think of your shoulders going away from each other ’ . |
| 49 | The most important lesson to be learned by both the parents and the child is that when mother says ‘ no ’ she means ‘ no ’ and not ‘ well if you make a louder fuss I might give in ’ . |
| 50 | Never know ; I might give you some more . " |
| 51 | He suggested that I might give a dinner to the leading newspaper editors and proprietors , when he could make some statement calculated to neutralise some of the undoubted venom that was then directed at him . |
| 52 | Or I might give the job to someone else . ’ |
| 53 | Dangerous thing to say we 've already said , but preparing notes is lastly down to yourselves , I might give you a few tips on that . |
| 54 | ‘ I might give someone a ring . ’ |
| 55 | So er , I might , I might give our Mark a ring and see what he 's got in there . |
| 56 | In warm I might give my hair a wash . |
| 57 | I might give you a ring later and say can you have Aaron |
| 58 | really but seeing as I know her erm I thought I might give her a ring . |
| 59 | I might give one of them to her . |
| 60 | I might give you one to do it next week . |