Example sentences of "[pron] i [be] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know , I I was given |
| 2 | But if you think about it in contemporary terms I I was giving a lecture in London er a couple of weeks ago erm on the subject of erm America 's changing foreign policy under Clinton if you just think about foreign policy making and who makes it , and questions of consistency and you think about some of the crises that are going on in the world from Bosnia and so on what does the constitution tell us ? |
| 3 | I know now that there is every reason for joy at the thought of the day on which I was given life . |
| 4 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 5 | Of course the horse named Bess , which I was given had a mind of its own , since it would always be eating and when it was not it only plodded along . |
| 6 | S but what they say is part of his managerial status demanded him having a company car to which I was given one as well but in effect that then became his wife 's because he was still banned for drink driving . |
| 7 | For years now I have conducted a personal campaign , always asking if I can have , for example , a five or three amp fuse instead of the one I am given , a 13 amp . |
| 8 | Make sure it 's only one I 'm giving him ! |
| 9 | I know what I 'm giving you , ’ Lucy smiled on her secret . |
| 10 | ‘ You do n't realise what I 'm giving you , ’ she said . |
| 11 | And what I 'm giving is just something nice in the spirit of Christmas but it has n't broken my bank or my back . |
| 12 | Mm and what I 'm giving is just something nice in the spirit of Christmas , but it has n't broken my bank or my back |
| 13 | From what I was given on him it was very easy to construct something from his guilt , his sense of self-degradation . |
| 14 | I was totally confident I could lose any nancified verger on my chosen ground , provided I had a decent start , which was precisely what I was giving myself . |
| 15 | But I was so proud of my beautiful daughter , and I wanted to make up to you for the years we lost before I met your mama again ; I wanted you to have the best of everything , and I thought that that was what I was giving you . |