Example sentences of "i [verb] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | His silence encouraged her to be even more frank , and , looking to where the moonlight caught the line of his strong jaw , she said , ‘ I know you appreciate the help I 've given by stepping in to take Stella 's place , and for that reason I doubt that you would give me the sack — or tell me to go . |
| 2 | Erm not any more I do n't I 've given them all away hello , are there any spare handouts in the room ? |
| 3 | I mean given the size of China I mean th there 'd be |
| 4 | Would you watch fo women fo , I mean given the |
| 5 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 6 | ‘ I got given a crate of this , it 's Château Margaux , by the small , fat and lecherous owner of one third of Singapore . |
| 7 | Apart from that it was jumble sales or what I got given . |
| 8 | Well I got given these when I was a rep at when I started , ten years ago and I 've still got half a dozen of these you know . |
| 9 | As I , well I got given orders . |
| 10 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 11 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 12 | ‘ But I would hate to get to 40 and look back , thinking : ‘ I wish I 'd given it my best shot ’ . ’ |
| 13 | He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already . |
| 14 | Once again , I 'd given my film to David . |
| 15 | The road had for so long been the only goal that I 'd given no thought to anything beyond . |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't say I 'd given everything to make my husband what he was , or that he 'd cheated on me . |
| 17 | We 've waited so long , I 'd given up all hope of ever having a bairn . ’ |
| 18 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
| 19 | But once I 'd given them to him I never saw them again so I imagine he must have burnt them . |
| 20 | Mark says , ‘ I 'd given my consent to AID but I could n't have told you how I might feel if Wendy did conceive . |
| 21 | Whenever I smiled , he smiled back happily as if I 'd given him something . |
| 22 | Yeah , erm I er , I 'd given up erm about se seven weeks ago , and I was told that it was an anti-depressant and when I came off the cigarettes it was just terrible ! |
| 23 | ‘ Liz lost a winning I 'd given her on a horse . |
| 24 | I was getting used to the odd feeling of distance , which made it seem as if it was all about someone else , but it was alarming to see how most of the articles highlighted the love-story angle , rather than the conditions in which John was held or the reasons I 'd given as to why the Government should be doing more . |
| 25 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd given the best years of my life to television . |
| 27 | ‘ There I was being really good , ’ Leslie says , ‘ I 'd given up smoking seven months before I became pregnant to get it all out of my body . |
| 28 | He stopped bothering me , I 'd given him something more important to worry about . |
| 29 | I figured the last interview I 'd given them , right after the bombing of Flight 103 , had probably been the root cause of why my life had been turned inside out , and I was n't looking for any more trouble . |
| 30 | I really felt I 'd given myself totally to African life . " |