Example sentences of "[conj] i give " in BNC.
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| 1 | about analysis or me giving them the dream and I have to sort of like get out for myself what |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | I do my bedroom out every day — sweep it and dust the furniture and I do something else every day , like I dust the tops of the cupboards or I give the wardrobe a polish . |
| 4 | In I gave the book to him or I gave him the book , him would normally be considered thematic in FSP theory . |
| 5 | It is with no disrespect to her that I give him preference . |
| 6 | Different names may be current in my area , so that I give you information on the wrong fish . |
| 7 | The lessons of A Course In Miracles provide many wonderful affirmations such as — ‘ There is nothing to fear ’ , ‘ I could see peace instead of this ’ , ‘ All that I give is given to myself , ‘ All things I think I see reflect ideas ’ , ‘ Let me be still and listen to the truth ’ , ‘ Light and joy and peace abide in me ’ , ‘ Today I will judge nothing that occurs ’ , and ‘ The past is over . |
| 8 | The only messages that I give off are of faint delirium and desperate indecision . |
| 9 | I confess that I give pride of place to the story of his children on the occasion they organised a charade displaying a Crusader knight returning from the wars . |
| 10 | It 's only when I 'm writing an article that I give it its proper name ! |
| 11 | It 's always the pressure that I give myself , and I 've given myself a lot of pressure this last year ’ , she revealed . |
| 12 | Do n't worry if you ca n't do it if you ca n't any of these any of these exercises that I give you by the way it 's not like homework it 's just for you to play with them to get the do them at your own pace . |
| 13 | The staff all know what 's got to be done and they go off and do it ; it 's just when jobs are different that I give them any guidance . |
| 14 | But it so happens , you might say well all these years retired I ca n't be much good at the job , you 'll be interested to know that I give talks to groups which include retiring tax inspectors . |
| 15 | ‘ How do you know what impression I have , and what makes you think that I give a damn what you and that boy get up to in your spare time ? ’ |
| 16 | So I 'm hoping that this system that I give you will allow you to do that , anybody been a best man at a wedding ? |
| 17 | Oh dear me so I 'm hoping that the system that I give you will allow you to deal with all those situations as well as make a longer presentation where you do have some preparation time . |
| 18 | Every job that I give Kevin I write down a , a brief summary of what that task was , and I leave a gap of three lines . |
| 19 | But he complains that I give him the impression that I am holding back and am not fully committed . |
| 20 | Somebody I , ones that I give him that I thought he |
| 21 | It 's nothing , this is the way I deal with it , if I treat this job , if I go in to a shop or ask for any service I expect , you know , the same that I give , and basically speaking then I 'm pleased . |
| 22 | Well yes , but let me say that I gave up going to auditions well before I became well known through The History Man , on television . |
| 23 | Not that I gave it serious thought . |
| 24 | He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff … |
| 25 | It was at this point that I gave up any hopes for an aviation career simply because of the increasing high cost of hiring that DH Moth for a few hours every weekend . |
| 26 | It was in those days , when Margaret was still alive , that I gave my former colleague Peter Duval-Smith — whose private life and whose work as an academic journalist always seemed to be equally chaotic — the introduction to Braemar Mansions that he so much wanted . |
| 27 | ‘ Bear in mind that I gave my evidence after Blissett had been charged by the FA for a serious breach of the laws of the game — and the experienced commission of inquiry , which conducted a rigorous investigation into the incident , cleared him . |
| 28 | I think it was on that Sunday , but it may have been on the Sunday before , that I gave the last message from the Burma Broadcasting Service . |
| 29 | In a lecture that I gave in Rome I tried to show that in spite of what Thomas Kuhn says ( which has been much exaggerated by his followers ) , you can not write the history of any branch of knowledge , whatever it may be , from a completely relativist point of view . |
| 30 | ‘ And he just stood there , ’ Emlyn concluded , ‘ looking so desperate that I gave us both an enormous gin and tonic ! ’ |