Example sentences of "[verb] i [vb past] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
| 2 | they offered me two for a boat , right and they offered me one while I was there , then I got home and they offered me one that late that evening , job , erm working like that was a Thursday and they wanted me to start on the week Monday , I could n't do it as it happens I had to give my weeks notice here get out there that quick , so I fucking said , I said to myself well they 've first day , they 're gon na offer me a few more , so yeah they offered me a couple more but way from so , a bit unlucky I , I wished I 'd fucking taken it |
| 3 | I really felt I 'd given myself totally to African life . " |
| 4 | I only took out the palace because I knew I 'd given I 'd written a cheque for forty |
| 5 | And from this time I knew I had to give up so many things — my sailing and so on — but the music came back to me a hundred times better . |
| 6 | From reading sex manuals I knew I wanted to give oral sex because I love that part of a woman 's anatomy and I wanted to get close to it . |
| 7 | Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I 'd given it to you , ’ John says . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought I 'd given it to you , ’ Paul says . |
| 10 | Could I also say one thing finally , and that is the fact that we 've tried to run together the alteration and the greenbelt local plan as concurrently er as possible , er it would appear that the timing erm is coming together reasonably satisfactorily erm in that we hope that the report from the greenbelt local plan enquiry , is not to er far distant , erm and we would expect , sir , that you will be reporting on the proceedings at this examination in public er in the not to distant future , well I think I did give an undertaking at the greenbelt local plan enquiry that the County Council , because the two are er interrelated to a degree , that I would expect the County Council would not wish to pursue either report er until er the other er is available , and that seems to the County Council to be entirely sensible , that the two reports , the structure plan alteration and the greenbelt local plan enquiry , erm should be looked at together . |
| 11 | ‘ But I would hate to get to 40 and look back , thinking : ‘ I wish I 'd given it my best shot ’ . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't say I 'd given everything to make my husband what he was , or that he 'd cheated on me . |