Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] i give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I already had permission to search all the surrounding fields , so I waited until the field was harvested before I gave it a thorough going over with my detector . |
| 2 | At the first hearing , she had a gloomy , slit-mouthed sidekick with the worst case of acne I 've seen since I gave up computer programming , but this time he was n't there . |
| 3 | For one thing , you 're not the only one who 'll be affected if I give that story about the poison pen letter to the press . |
| 4 | However , my sense of superiority was soon punctured when I gave a paper on semantics at the Philological Society , where my views met with scepticism and some hostility . |
| 5 | My national insurance stamp has not been paid since I gave up work to look after mother . |