Example sentences of "i [was/were] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
| 2 | " A likely thing it would be if I were to give a drink of milk to every beggar who passed through ! " exclaimed the second brother . |
| 3 | ‘ I hardly think that it would help you if I were to give it . ’ |
| 4 | So , for example , the lecture I 'm going to give you today is n't reflected at all in Arnold erm so er I think it 'd be helpful if I were to give you some indication of when there were and when there were n't . |
| 5 | I were given the chance . |
| 6 | If I were given my head , which I never am or will be ( for I am impotent . |
| 7 | If I was to give my life to this orchestra then I could not allow that someone throw me out at a moment 's notice . |
| 8 | Erm if I was to give you an option a choice of which market area you think you would be most happy with , where do you think ? |
| 9 | Which which company if I was to give you a choice , and the luxury that most recruiters do n't have . |
| 10 | Oh they left it that I was to give to Arthur and June . |
| 11 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 12 | I was given a couple of interviews straight off which , though unsuccessful , were useful practice and I felt confident that something would soon turn up . |
| 13 | I was given a cutting a few years ago by my sister and have subsequently passed on cuttings but have never known the proper name of it or much about it . |
| 14 | Last year I was given a beautiful blue pot hydrangea which I planted in the garden when it finished flowering . |
| 15 | In my own case I was given a section — a small area in the central division — with just over 300 crimes per year . |
| 16 | As a child I was given a grey plastic gun as a birthday present . |
| 17 | ‘ I was given a chauffeur-driven tour of Beverly Hills and then taken to the famous Sunset Marquee Hotel . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But it was just a decision I had to make under the circumstances I was given . |
| 19 | Environmentalists have supported the miners against Pittston strip-mining and long-wall techniques , and I was given a badge which proclaimed ‘ I 'm Pro-Union and Pro-Choice ’ , linking the strike with the most inflammable issue in US politics today , abortion rights . |
| 20 | I was given a list of 12 absolutes that if the promoter could not provide , I was to cancel the gig on the spot . |
| 21 | I was given a choice . |
| 22 | ‘ I was given two , and I was told by my nurse never to let them near the fire or they 'd melt . |
| 23 | I stayed there only a few days , and then for some reason I was removed to the Colegio Fray Luis de Leon , where I was given a somewhat larger and more comfortable room . |
| 24 | I was given a pile of sacristy wash rather than vests , sheets and shirts . |
| 25 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 26 | These I was given , but , as I soon discovered , directions which would have taken me there in an almost straight line . |
| 27 | A place had been set for one and I was given bread and a bowl of goulash . ’ |
| 28 | Later , along with two other historians who had , like me , secured entry to Oxford or Cambridge , I was given a few science tutorials in my last term at school . |
| 29 | I understood this only after I was given the Mont Blanc as a present . |
| 30 | ‘ On reporting , ’ he recalled , ‘ I was given a piece of steel ( distorted ) , a hacksaw , a file and a square and told to make two sides square , which I quickly did . ’ |