Example sentences of "i [vb past] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to give him a lead . |
| 2 | ‘ No , I 'ad to give half of it back , ’ breathed Dolly . |
| 3 | I agreed to give a dinner and it took place in my London home some weeks later . |
| 4 | ‘ When I took over the club from Connelly I agreed to give old Giuseppe there a job , ’ he explained . |
| 5 | I got to give you two eights . |
| 6 | I got to give you the cello . |
| 7 | I got to give him to you hold it |
| 8 | ‘ I got given a crate of this , it 's Château Margaux , by the small , fat and lecherous owner of one third of Singapore . |
| 9 | Apart from that it was jumble sales or what I got given . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As I , well I got given orders . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | To satisfy my pride I tried to give the soldier some grounds for his suspicions . |
| 14 | I tried to give her the kiss of life . |
| 15 | Last week in my talk I tried to give you an introduction to the subject we call art . |
| 16 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 17 | These hijras are very bad and very dirty ladies , ’ he had said the first time I tried to give Razia a lift in his car . |
| 18 | If I tried to give it more than one one word at a time it falls over and core dumps . |
| 19 | ‘ I tried to give you time , ’ he groaned into her hair , then , with a moan of desire to match her own , she felt him return to her , and then all the rest was heaven . |
| 20 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 21 | Again , the two TV programmes I mentioned give plenty of evidence of the power they exercise over the lives of thousands upon thousands . |
| 22 | ‘ I was driving home from Berkeley today and I stopped to give a chap a lift , and look who it was . ’ |
| 23 | You would be very cross if I stopped giving it . ’ |
| 24 | Some boy I told to give my work . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ But I would hate to get to 40 and look back , thinking : ‘ I wish I 'd given it my best shot ’ . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Once again , I 'd given my film to David . |
| 29 | The road had for so long been the only goal that I 'd given no thought to anything beyond . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't say I 'd given everything to make my husband what he was , or that he 'd cheated on me . |