Example sentences of "i had given " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had given it up as lost , ’ said Mr Tyson , who lives in South Ruislip , Middlesex . |
| 2 | I had given her my electric blanket . |
| 3 | It was a little different from the age I had given to my employers ! |
| 4 | I had given Leslie an antique bloodstone in quite a massive setting , with the motto Spero Meliora engraved on the seal . |
| 5 | He had expressed so often the depth of his love and had made it clear to me that I had given meaning to his life . |
| 6 | In the end , I believe the matter to be no more complicated than this : I had given myself too much to do . |
| 7 | I had given up hope of a reply when , after two months and three days , a letter came which began , ‘ We find your proposals perfectly feasible … ’ . |
| 8 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |
| 9 | But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’ |
| 10 | When the man eventually got home that day he told the assembled villagers of our meeting , and my warning , and said that after he had watched me go round a bend in the road a hundred yards away he started to light the cigarette I had given him . |
| 11 | Who said that I had given thee up . |
| 12 | Twelve pence , she reckoned ; perhaps if I had given ten pence to the beggar this would not have happened . |
| 13 | While Elizabeth was in Athens I had given her a proof copy . |
| 14 | I had given about half of the statement to a copy stenographer by telephone ( a normal procedure ) when a man with a southern or midland English accent intervened . |
| 15 | If I had given my advice it would have been ignored . ’ |
| 16 | In a way I had given up . |
| 17 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |
| 18 | I had given them the idea that maybe they would become torturers . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 20 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 21 | The Chief-Corporal to whom I had given my sisters ' addresses at Canjuers was there , and he told me that he had sent my oldest sister a photograph of himself in a tank and one of his apartment in La Rochelle . |
| 22 | Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper . |
| 23 | His name had been leaked inadvertently in a press interview which I had given and someone had traced his whereabouts . |
| 24 | And often we would lie together in the sun after a bathe , and kiss and caress each other , and it was a dear , familiar pleasure , associated in my mind and body with safety and mutual delight and no demands made ; his hands were wondering and tender , and his face when I opened my eyes to look at it had the extraordinary beauty it used to have when I had given him even this limited sensual happiness . |
| 25 | Fortunately those of my friends who knew me before were only amused by this foolish description and there was no general resentment of my peerage , which could properly have been attributed to many services that I had given to the government — of both colours . |
| 26 | By sheer luck I had given Reuters their biggest news scoop since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 . |
| 27 | If I was a fish then I needed water and I had given up my right to it . |
| 28 | I had given myself away . |
| 29 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |
| 30 | So er that was a telephone call to the divisional officer , who was available at the moment and who came down and discussed it with the employer and notwithstanding that , in the afternoon I had given the management one hour to resolve the problem otherwise there was going to be a major walkout . |