Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] give [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Nor that I wished to give myself in life
2 But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’
3 I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive .
4 It was true that I had given him life but I had not given him love .
5 Who said that I had given thee up .
6 Saturday morning , and once again a fair and breezy day , so fair that I decided to give myself a holiday from writing , and go straight after breakfast to pick up the supplies I would need for the weekend .
7 ‘ It was then that I decided to give it a try .
8 ‘ I 've always been very aware that I needed to give something back after this experience and when I read about the appeal for people prepared to give homes to the Bosnians , I decided it was time I stepped in . ’
9 He was more modest than I 'd given him credit for .
10 Feeling that she had given her due of politeness to the curate , the due exacted by her mother and elder sister , she pattered onto Maurice , and , after having a bit of a poke round , shot across the connecting gangplank onto Grace .
11 What was even more satisfying was knowing that she had given him that same lesson , not once but twice , this morning when she 'd stunned him by agreeing to see his grandmother on her own time , and last night , when she 'd turned away his advances , and never mind all that pretence about his not being interested .
12 She passed it off as a joke , furious that she had given herself away .
13 Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her .
14 She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all .
15 The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person .
16 She noted the breadth of his shoulders , the long legs and dark good looks , and decided Kate had better taste than she 'd given her credit for .
17 Either he loved Kirsty less than she had given him credit for , or he hated Shiona even more fiercely than she had ever suspected .
18 Erm on , on yours in fact I could n't check sequence erm on the programme that you 'd given me because I did n't , I , I had know way of telling whether we did get a clash .
19 O was only one of the many names that we had given him , but it was the one that had lasted .
20 It could be extended to look even longer , and presented with the words that we wanted to give you ‘ a small gift ’ or a gift ‘ big enough for two ’ .
21 On top of all that Copper has always had a dust allergy and he got very congested so we had to give him powders to keep his lungs clear .
22 He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’
23 When Derek got the run they all cheered and a reporter commented that they had given him a great welcome , but could not possibly have known the significance of the run .
24 The final score was 4–3 to Royston with everyone content that they had given their best .
25 It has a weird effect , so bad one day that they had to give me valium to take off my bandages because I could n't handle it any more .
26 Edward Gillespie says that they wanted to give their racegoers something extra and more excitement … and when times are hard this is one way of getting more owners into the sport
27 I was drug-free , like , so they had to give me them back .
28 Yeah , yeah six minutes past the hour so there , yeah , so they kept giving you doubts , now if you 're getting on this train make sure you get out at Lemington , so at about twenty past twelve , the twelve six went out from platform eleven , why , cos that will upset everything then , by , few of the trains kept coming round , then they said were very sorry but the Shrewsbury train will come in at platform ten that 's where we 're all waiting , so the ready train be outside somewhere , so , that came in just as the , the twelve , six went out about twenty past twelve these in and this girl got up so we said do n't get on this , you 'll never get to Birmingham you get on here , wait until we get on we said , cos they changed the train , oh she was getting all worked up , she come from Middlesborough , well I said well , well , anyway , we said no , there , there 's no trains for university no , nobody will be going at the right time will they ?
29 Blast , I 'd forgotten all about that little oddity , although it did give me pause at the time .
30 He retained an affection for Paris and a gratitude for the intellectual advantages that it had given him to which he later referred as pope .
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