Example sentences of "i have give " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'd given up about three weeks before but I was ready to beg from him . |
| 32 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 33 | He was more modest than I 'd given him credit for . |
| 34 | I 'd given the warden details of our itinerary , and the call got put straight through to my own room here just before we went for lunch . |
| 35 | You see , I 'd given Elaine our address — she wanted to keep in touch . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 38 | I only took out the palace because I knew I 'd given I 'd written a cheque for forty |
| 39 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Well that 's the thing I have I had to give up years ago . |
| 42 | Why do I have to give myself galloping shingles and chronic insomnia just so as the critic of the Evening Standard can say , ‘ Maureen Lipman is to the world of chat show hosts what Frank Bruno is to the world of petit-point ’ ? ’ |
| 43 | Elaine , do I have to give my home address ? |
| 44 | ‘ Why do I have to give up Tony when you wo n't give Domino up ? ’ |
| 45 | But how many dull moments may I have given my listeners ? |
| 46 | What must I have given you ? |
| 47 | If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such . |
| 48 | I had to give it up . |
| 49 | I had to give myself grey ones as it was . |
| 50 | I used to like giving poetry readings , but in the end I had to give up , for I could not stand the socializing afterwards , as if my poetry had just been the excuse for a drinking spree à la Dylan Thomas . |
| 51 | However , I had to give in when , a few days later , Christopher returned from school and informed me that his teacher said a dog added to the character of a child and also taught compassion . |
| 52 | And from this time I knew I had to give up so many things — my sailing and so on — but the music came back to me a hundred times better . |
| 53 | ‘ I had to give evidence at the inquest on the young girl . ’ |
| 54 | I had to give up caddying when I left school to take up other jobs , but carrying the bags was in my blood and by the time I was twenty-four I was back to caddying full-time . |
| 55 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ How 's that scheme of yours coming on ? ’ you might ask him and he would reply with just a little too much nonchalance to sound natural : ‘ Oh , I had to give it up ; we had good reason for thinking that the goons were on to it . ’ |
| 57 | Also , I had to give him news . |
| 58 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 59 | I had to give up my All or Nothing scenario , in which my child either remains completely untouched by drugs or ends her short life with a needle in her arm . |
| 60 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |