Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | ‘ Maybe you do know more than I 'm giving you credit for , Cardiff , ’ said Rohmer . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ There is a tradition in the company that the newest family member to join gets the least exciting part , so I was given Africa . ’ |
8 | ‘ 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 . |
9 | " You asked me to report preliminary findings as soon as I could , so I 'm giving you a ring , " he said . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | ‘ But I 'll need some support if I am to give him the service he wants . |
12 | If I were given my head , which I never am or will be ( for I am impotent . |
13 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
14 | " A likely thing it would be if I were to give a drink of milk to every beggar who passed through ! " exclaimed the second brother . |
15 | ‘ I hardly think that it would help you if I were to give it . ’ |
16 | So , for example , the lecture I 'm going to give you today is n't reflected at all in Arnold erm so er I think it 'd be helpful if I were to give you some indication of when there were and when there were n't . |
17 | I feel I could score more goals in Italy if I was given more freedom . |
18 | yes , oh yes , and erm , going back to somebody asked me earlier , erm , about how it , I feel I have to be able to write about , just about anything , erm , and so if I was given commission to write about any one thing I would have to put myself in a position to , to be able to do it . |
19 | If I was to give my life to this orchestra then I could not allow that someone throw me out at a moment 's notice . |
20 | Erm if I was to give you an option a choice of which market area you think you would be most happy with , where do you think ? |
21 | Which which company if I was to give you a choice , and the luxury that most recruiters do n't have . |
22 | Clearly , if I 'm to give my loved one a spade for Christmas , the answer is not to wrap it at all . |
23 | ‘ If I 'm given a challenge I have to have a go at it , ’ he admits , reflecting on the guiding principles that have taken him to the top of two major industries . |
24 | Chairman I 'm , I 'm conscious that this amended recommendation will cause some disappointment among the support of the Brandon bypass , but I generally feel that some form of agreement can be reached with Norfolk County Council and Breckland District Council and indeed the Norfolk Member of Parliament , if I 'm given more time to review the situation in the light of other proposals on the A eleven , the A one three , four and in Thetford . |
25 | I believe that if I 'm given the chance to fight the George Forman of old , the George Forman of today would be the better . |
26 | if I 'm giving a single ear piece , cos they wo n't be quiet , otherwise they will get lost that way |
27 | two fifty to come in , I do n't mind if I 'm giving the booze away ! |
28 | I ca n't start drawing conclusions until I 'm given some data . ’ |
29 | If I 'm not teaching I 'm marking in th to actually get a lecture through cos I was given this with about a weeks ' notice you see , so I did n't have a chance to prepare the stuff for this course other than as we go along Right ? |
30 | ‘ It is difficult for me to find the limits of the car yet because I am given only a limited number of laps and I do n't know the circuit . ’ |