Example sentences of "[subord] i have give " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was more modest than I 'd given him credit for . |
| 2 | And he says it 's more than I 've given the others because they did have an increase . |
| 3 | If I took the food away from her too often , though , there was a danger she would lose interest , so I had to give in to her a few times . |
| 4 | Whenever I use anything else — a different amp or something — I just ca n't get anything to happen , so I 've given up trying , basically . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I wanted to give them to his wife but she is n't here so I 've given them to him instead , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Whenever I smiled , he smiled back happily as if I 'd given him something . |
| 7 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 8 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 9 | Twelve pence , she reckoned ; perhaps if I had given ten pence to the beggar this would not have happened . |
| 10 | If I had given my advice it would have been ignored . ’ |
| 11 | If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such . |
| 12 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
| 13 | ‘ It will break my heart if I had to give my little girl up . |
| 14 | If I had to give Ferguson advice about bringing the best out of him , I would need only one word — dialogue . ’ |
| 15 | If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated . |
| 16 | Your pardon , Admiral , if I have given offence . ’ |
| 17 | But it does n't matter anyway cos I 've give her some money and I 'll give her her other money |
| 18 | Cos I have to give it back |
| 19 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I intend to remain faithful , simply because I 've given infidelity a whirl and it does n't work for me . |
| 22 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 23 | ‘ And worse still , ’ she says , ‘ I often worry that my other two children are suffering because I have to give so much attention to Graham . ’ |
| 24 | I especially hate pubs since I 've given up smoking ( the spurning of which addiction went completely unnoticed by our friend Stuart ) . |
| 25 | Similarly , reconsider the example introduced as ( 8 ) above : ( 25 ) The flag is white Since I have given no further information about other colours the flag may contain , which might indeed be highly relevant to the proceedings , I may be taken to implicate that the flag has no other colours and is thus wholly white . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Think about Felix and his family , who hated me after I had given them love . |
| 29 | Sometimes , after I 'd given them back their money , the customer would open the palm of their hand and I would discover that one of the coins I had passed over had suddenly disappeared so I ended up having to give them even more bees and honey . |
| 30 | Wo n't be as after I 've give him one |