Example sentences of "[conj] i be give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 2 | I stayed there only a few days , and then for some reason I was removed to the Colegio Fray Luis de Leon , where I was given a somewhat larger and more comfortable room . |
| 3 | Some sympathetic mothers covered it with bandages and bulging dressings and I was driven to the doctors ' where I was given a more impressive bandage , leaving my finger looking the size of a small banana . |
| 4 | The reference to the ‘ friend ’ had to do with my association with the Speech Institute , where I was giving a course of lectures on what the Directress , Miss Marjorie Gullan , liked to call ‘ Modernist Poetry ’ ( for it was still considered that ‘ poetry ’ ended with the Georgians , whom we had all studied at school , and that Pound and Eliot were advanced experimenters ) . |
| 5 | I have a battle to win and would ask only that I am given the chance to do so without intrusion in my private life . |
| 6 | In each case , if I am to claim that this revelation or experience is of ‘ God ’ , and is not simply an expression of some form of mental delusion which should be referred to a psychoanalyst , then I am forced to debate the interpretation that I am giving . |
| 7 | ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it . |
| 8 | Anne is abroad at the moment , doing some research , but she left a message with someone that I 'm to give her a ring when she gets back . |
| 9 | So , it 's three units that I 'm giving my siblings . |
| 10 | In Joshua chapter one , in verses two and three , Moses my servant is dead now therefore arise , cross this Jordan , you and all his people to the land that I 'm giving to them , to the sons of Israel . |
| 11 | erm And as I said , we 're trying to , not that I 'm giving the opposite view to Doctor Plumtree , as I said , we 're trying to fund the people on the front line , you know , the foresters in their back yard , as it were , we 're trying to preserve it , and we also feel we 're not being patronising , it 's not like we 're writing out a large cheque and saying ’ here you are ’ , we 're actually putting a lot of time and effort into this , I mean , it 's now become a full time job for me and certainly for Dave Kester , and all the other people working on it . |
| 12 | The reply that I was given is as follows : ’ The external finance limit for BR next year will be £2,041 million . |
| 13 | er Mr talked about the figures , I 'm convinced that the figures that , that I was given still include Perzon House I 'm convinced that those figures were not , have not been taken out erm I do n't know who should audit the figures , perhaps the internal audit should audit the figures . |
| 14 | When I yeah when I was commercial manager for er one of the things that I was given the job to do was to sort out the company 's buying . |
| 15 | Er what is necessary for me to also convey to you is that the theme that I was given today was one of forgiveness . |
| 16 | Right , the trouble i the problem that we do have is a very big syllabus that I was given . |
| 17 | Oh they left it that I was to give to Arthur and June . |
| 18 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 19 | the work that I was giving him |
| 20 | We 've just finished the first round of waivers for people receiving the Home Care Service , and the criteria that I was giving you reflected those , and so when you get your letter , if you feel that you 've got particular financial problems or particular family situations we should take into account , erm then do get in touch with us and we 'll process it and we 'll set out a procedure for you in the letter that we send . |
| 21 | ‘ Maybe you do know more than I 'm giving you credit for , Cardiff , ’ said Rohmer . |
| 22 | So I went to the council , I did n't know anything about social security , even that there was such a thing , so I was given benefit and a hostel to stay in at Elephant and Castle . |
| 23 | ‘ There is a tradition in the company that the newest family member to join gets the least exciting part , so I was given Africa . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Going to be in this orange-coloured juice , so I 'm given to understand , ’ said Dorcas doubtfully , ‘ running slowly on a ball and jetting , whatever that is . |
| 25 | " You asked me to report preliminary findings as soon as I could , so I 'm giving you a ring , " he said . |
| 26 | Once I was given the address of Mikhoels ' wife , Anastasiya Pavlovna Pototskaya , and I was told that she had a lot of Chagalls , and that she may possibly want to sell them . |
| 27 | " Now then … in 1959 your husband came to the conclusion , and I am given to understand that you fully agreed , that it would be a sensible step for him to take employment for 15 months with a construction firm in Central America , in order to save the larger part of his salary Nenna protested that she had never exactly thought it sensible , it was the parting of lovers , which must always be senseless , but they 'd both of them thought that David , Panama , would be a wretched place to take small children to . |
| 28 | The business sponsorship incentive scheme has been a great success and I am giving further encouragement to sponsorship of the arts by increasing its budget by £1 million a year to £4.5 million . |
| 29 | ‘ But I have been approached to consider seeking a nomination in another ward and I am giving that some consideration . |
| 30 | And I 'm giving a voice to the hundreds of people who do n't have a voice . |