Example sentences of "[subord] i have given " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I wanted to give them to his wife but she is n't here so I 've given them to him instead , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Whenever I smiled , he smiled back happily as if I 'd given him something . |
| 6 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 7 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 8 | Twelve pence , she reckoned ; perhaps if I had given ten pence to the beggar this would not have happened . |
| 9 | If I had given my advice it would have been ignored . ’ |
| 10 | Your pardon , Admiral , if I have given offence . ’ |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I intend to remain faithful , simply because I 've given infidelity a whirl and it does n't work for me . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I especially hate pubs since I 've given up smoking ( the spurning of which addiction went completely unnoticed by our friend Stuart ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Think about Felix and his family , who hated me after I had given them love . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | After I have given my first three preferences to Apple , Banana and Cherry my fourth preference , if I express one , will count only if Apple , Banana and Cherry have been either elected or eliminated . |
| 22 | I will produce many children and get fat and wear stretch maternity jeans ( even after I have given birth ) and an apron with a daisy on it . |
| 23 | So for example when I 've given a pint of blood instead of giving it into a plastic bag with sodium citrate to stop it clotting I 've actually given into a plain glass bottle and when I asked what this for the erm transfusion nurse said that they 're going to let the red cells all clot together at the bottom and use the serum that was left for blood grouping purposes which of course is very important . |
| 24 | Oh yeah , but then you 've also got to watch I mean that I 'd , sometimes I 'd muck things up when I 've given too much choice I think |
| 25 | When I , when I come to practice management then , when I 've given the books out , I 'll probably them out to do the exam . |
| 26 | Which warranty , when I have given it , I will make good with my life . |
| 27 | I found the door unlocked as I had given my master the key before I left ; the light was poor but I could see nothing had been disturbed so lay down on the bed , pulling the curtains around me . |