Example sentences of "i have given [pron] [noun sg] [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 | Okay and in fact I 've given you part of your homework is to write out the technical names . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | I 've given you Hell from the minute you walked in here , and that 's how it 'll stay . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | ‘ But I have given my word to la Principessa , I have said I would ask you to come with me , and you have agreed . |
13 | ‘ Magnificence , I have given my oath to no man . ’ |
14 | I have given my consent to his being in my study , but on this occasion the initiative was mine . |