Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right I give you it , it 's the same old |
| 2 | Eventually I gave in and accepted it . |
| 3 | Eventually I gave up hope of ever seeing my Mom again , and stealing a penny from beneath a milk bottle , bought a platform ticket and stowed away in the goods wagon of a train bound — I thought — for Sheffield and my beloved Grandfather . |
| 4 | Eventually I gave in , just as both of us knew I would . |
| 5 | Most people are accustomed to follow linguistic rules more or less slavishly , but in this case they would be glad to change if only someone gave them a new set of clear rules to follow ( an earlier work by Miller and Swift was subtitled ‘ New Language in New Times ’ : it seems they take the optimistic view that we are living in a postfeminist world ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |
| 7 | But perhaps I give that impression because I have strong views on certain subjects and because I do n't go in for the social whirl , for fast cars and fast women . ’ |
| 8 | So I gave him a copy of my summary . |
| 9 | So I gave them up , gave them all up . |
| 10 | So I gave up my quest . |
| 11 | So I gave him a yard of slack line and decided to wait it out . |
| 12 | So I gave him slack line and waited again . |
| 13 | So I gave up the production of all but ‘ Leicester Square to Broadway ’ and began to wonder if I would not be happier producing shows for the BBC in London or in another country — perhaps China . |
| 14 | If someone said , ‘ just taking £5 off you , ’ and said they ‘ knew me son ’ and all that rigmarole and ‘ so I gave them £5 ’ , then your knowledge of the law came out immediately . |
| 15 | I got so bad I could n't do it so I gave up . |
| 16 | So I gave her time . |
| 17 | So I gave up on the idea of girls until I was about fifteen , when I suppose my hormones calmed down a bit . |
| 18 | So I gave myself the day off . ’ |
| 19 | Well , in my book nothing comes before football and so I gave them a simple ultimatum : ‘ Make your choice . |
| 20 | So I gave up . |
| 21 | So I gave myself just half an hour to get to the theatre and prepare for curtain up — and phoned home at each interval . |
| 22 | So I gave up . |
| 23 | So I gave him half of mine , half of it , you know how it 's a tablet now ? |
| 24 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |
| 25 | so I gave that and there was nothing , this year the citizens have nothing at their |
| 26 | , . I had a very serious patient er , the other day , and I treated him and gave him six months to live , but at the end of six months , he did n't pay his account , so I gave him another six months . , . |
| 27 | So I gave you a topic sport or a hobby or an interest that you had and you produced a thought pattern for that just as we 'd done in the practice one with the subject of water , but then we moved on a stage further to get what are called a structured thought pattern . |
| 28 | well I have because we have erm , we 've got that Durham and Wearside telephone directory , so I gave Catherine the number and she said she 's got to ring her tonight about something I think what Catherine must of done was , well she must of send orders to her by post |
| 29 | That 's why I wanted to start them so I gave them back to him . |
| 30 | Steven was there so I gave . |