Example sentences of "[pron] had give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to give them the keys . |
| 2 | Well , who did n't ? who would n't ? but she 's never cottoned on to me , and so I do n't know whether or not she 's told you … oh , to put it plainly , I had to give her her marching orders . ’ |
| 3 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 4 | Like I had to give her some top priorities yesterday as she was n't going to be about . |
| 5 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 6 | Also , I had to give him news . |
| 7 | I had to give him his paper and his |
| 8 | I had to give him a bloody week ! |
| 9 | ‘ I had to give you time ! |
| 10 | I had to give it up . |
| 11 | ‘ How 's that scheme of yours coming on ? ’ you might ask him and he would reply with just a little too much nonchalance to sound natural : ‘ Oh , I had to give it up ; we had good reason for thinking that the goons were on to it . ’ |
| 12 | I used to follow a bit but I had to give it up . |
| 13 | Well I was t taking piano lessons , studying for the exams I went over the top , I had to give it up and I did n't go to school then for another eighteen months . |
| 14 | You were never entirely safe from prying fingers in Chinatown , but I had to give it my best shot . |
| 15 | Who said that I had given thee up . |
| 16 | But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’ |
| 17 | I had given them the idea that maybe they would become torturers . ’ |
| 18 | Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper . |
| 19 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |
| 20 | I had given them to Menna when he first left to take up his post . |
| 21 | Think about Felix and his family , who hated me after I had given them love . |
| 22 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |
| 23 | When the man eventually got home that day he told the assembled villagers of our meeting , and my warning , and said that after he had watched me go round a bend in the road a hundred yards away he started to light the cigarette I had given him . |
| 24 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 25 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 26 | And often we would lie together in the sun after a bathe , and kiss and caress each other , and it was a dear , familiar pleasure , associated in my mind and body with safety and mutual delight and no demands made ; his hands were wondering and tender , and his face when I opened my eyes to look at it had the extraordinary beauty it used to have when I had given him even this limited sensual happiness . |
| 27 | It was true that I had given him life but I had not given him love . |
| 28 | Three sons I had given him , and still he did not love me as I was so desperate to be loved . |
| 29 | yes , and er , that , that 's one of the plants I had given me , yeah I have some lov I have some lovely presents you know really great they are , quite nice at the part we , we have a , the children they , they er have games for the children to start with we do for the grandchildren you see and then er we have the dancing and the erm disco , it was great , we have a lovely party every October we have and I have all my friends we had about a hundred and eighty this year I think , must of been |
| 30 | I had given her my electric blanket . |