Example sentences of "i have give [pron] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He was more modest than I 'd given him credit for .
2 Once again , I 'd given my film to David .
3 I sha n't be in today as it 's Monday , but I 've given your name to Bill , the head librarian , and he 's expecting you .
4 I 've given my life to looking after my father and my brother .
5 I 've given my word on that .
6 I 've given my word to her mother that I will see to it that she does — she would n't have been allowed to come here on holiday otherwise , she would have been shut up in her mother 's apartment in Rome . ’
7 I do n't think you 're a very good detective , I 've given you loads of clues .
8 Okay and in fact I 've given you part of your homework is to write out the technical names .
9 I just want to read three anecdotes which , and I mean I 've given you sort of odd statistics and the advantage of anecdotes is that they actually put flesh on the bones I think , and they really give you a sense of what it meant to be er a peasant in China in the nineteen thirties .
10 I 've given you Hell from the minute you walked in here , and that 's how it 'll stay .
11 I have praised her effusively for her work — quite rightly — I have given her lunch at my villa — she refused the wine , though I observe she is guzzling Willi 's champagne without a shudder .
12 In his ignorance , the right hon. Member for Chingford — I have given him notice of this — sees British history as a continuum stretching back to the dawn of time .
13 Why , in the past week alone I have given my views on nuclear disarmament , the Middle East , world hunger , racism in the dairy industry , the proper depth to set okra seedlings and the supremacy of angst in the first two volumes of Winnie the Pooh .
14 ‘ But I have given my word to la Principessa , I have said I would ask you to come with me , and you have agreed .
15 ‘ Magnificence , I have given my oath to no man . ’
16 I have given my consent to his being in my study , but on this occasion the initiative was mine .
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