Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] i give " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
| 2 | Looking back over some lectures I gave in the early 1980s , I note that the division between the schools which could raise money and those which could not was even then causing me concern . |
| 3 | Start by playing these combinations with one note then apply some of the melodic permutations I gave you in part 1 of this series . |
| 4 | Or is it that you 're worried about having to work a bit harder for the grand wages I give you … wages that 's been strangled out of me by that bloody woman o ’ yours ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Those papers I gave you the other evening — ’ |
| 6 | I remember clearly one of the first times I gave a word of knowledge . |
| 7 | ‘ Over five years I gave away about a million quid . |
| 8 | ‘ Certainly , Cabannes did superbly at the back of the lineout today but he was a regular target and in all other areas I gave Back the edge . |
| 9 | We need to have some idea what the cells are picking up from , and where they are sending information to , in order to apply those two principles I gave you earlier , the selective trigger feature , and the selective projective zone . |
| 10 | After blunting two ice-screws I give up and go for the peg . |
| 11 | In this selection of old and modern recipes I give precedence to those dishes made from the gooseberry , because green gooseberry fool is — to me at any rate — the most delicious as well as the most characteristic of all these simple , almost childlike , English dishes . |
| 12 | After five lorries and two vans I gave up . |
| 13 | They have quite a few biscuits for snacks although that 's probably just as bad as eating sweets — even the reduced-sugar teething rusks I give Jake taste quite sweet . |
| 14 | ( 17 November 1988 ) During subsequent weeks I gave many interviews to journalists to correct their inaccurate accounts . |