Example sentences of "i gave " in BNC.
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| 31 | I gave the order to file out . |
| 32 | Since I gave Wiggen the reindeer he runs with his tail up , happy to be part of my team . |
| 33 | So I gave them up , gave them all up . |
| 34 | ‘ When the red light changed , I gave it a big welly-full . |
| 35 | I gave him a lecture about how the car was too heavy , going on about power-to-weight ratios . |
| 36 | ‘ I am a teacher of English at a school in Cologne and I gave up my job at the end of March and returned to England . ’ |
| 37 | Wexford waited for her to talk of love and instead heard her say with a strange sense of shock , ‘ I gave up my job , as I told you , and came back to London to live with him . |
| 38 | I gave her a hand packing up her clothes and stuff . |
| 39 | ‘ I gave him a quick flash of my headlights and he immediately slammed on his brakes , ’ he said . |
| 40 | He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff … |
| 41 | He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff … |
| 42 | If I was outside , she said she could telephone me every day for nothing , if I gave her the number of a phone box and arranged to be there for a certain time … |
| 43 | ‘ I do n't really believe in marriage , but I did n't want to lose my husband either , so I gave in , ’ she explains . |
| 44 | ‘ I started making hats when I gave up my job and needed something to do . |
| 45 | After giving your letter to my ‘ bonne ’ yesterday I gave up the fight and retired in good order to bed , where I am still . |
| 46 | ‘ A few years ago I gave a lecture at Preston Polytechnic and afterwards nine black girls , some of them with toddlers , stayed behind and we began to talk . |
| 47 | Marcel gave me my hands and a generation later , I gave David Bowie his wings . |
| 48 | That was n't the reason I gave her to David , but because she was a trained dancer and I thought she could help David get the simple steps of the minuet together , because he had difficulty in putting two steps together . |
| 49 | I gave warning in 1987 that it is part of Gorbachev 's character to search for absolute personal power . |
| 50 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 51 | But how I longed to be gallant , as they say ; to ask her if I might kiss her on both cheeks if I gave her my two violets . |
| 52 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 53 | I gave you yesterday the analogy of the home , and now we can imagine Mary bustling about the home with water for washing , for cooking and for cleaning . |
| 54 | So the rabbi ran after the man and said : ‘ I have just found out that the jewel I gave you is more precious than I thought — do n't sell it for too little . ’ |
| 55 | I gave her two . ’ |
| 56 | I gave a phoney number and said my name was Claudia . |
| 57 | I gave his wife some mulberries last autumn and I know he trusts us with the petrol allowance and anyway this beastly rationing should be over soon , so I know I should n't complain when some people have had it much worse up in town . |
| 58 | I was once or twice approached by stony-faced nuns begging for charities , but I gave nothing because I felt sure that some of those nuns were fakes , possibly men in drag , for their big , dark , hollow eyes , dyspeptic noses bright red in chalk-white faces , compressed , colourless lips and faint moustaches were hardly the signs of religious penance , and they were all wearing rather large boots . |
| 59 | His Spanish was almost non-existent , and he did not know how to study a foreign language , so I gave him lessons . |
| 60 | I gave a good class : there is nothing like teaching well for making one forget oneself and one 's petty troubles . |