Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [be] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I 'll get clobbered if people read suddenly in the Daily Mirror that I 've been giving some away . ’ |
| 2 | The extraordinary piece of good fortune that I had been given was the opportunity to fight it my way . |
| 3 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 4 | The figures that I quoted were given in a written answer to a question that I put down about the cutbacks in regional preferential assistance . |
| 5 | The lessons of A Course In Miracles provide many wonderful affirmations such as — ‘ There is nothing to fear ’ , ‘ I could see peace instead of this ’ , ‘ All that I give is given to myself , ‘ All things I think I see reflect ideas ’ , ‘ Let me be still and listen to the truth ’ , ‘ Light and joy and peace abide in me ’ , ‘ Today I will judge nothing that occurs ’ , and ‘ The past is over . |
| 6 | Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife . |
| 7 | ‘ This is the reason they were first given and I would like to think that I have been given this award because of that . |
| 8 | In the last minutes of the debate — the hon. Member for Birkenhead need not worry ; I am leaving him time within the advice that I have been given — I must mention the generality of the issues raised . |
| 9 | In the fifteen years that I have been giving lectures on sleep and dreaming to many groups of sixth-formers as well as undergraduate students , I have , in fact , only once had a single positive response to this question . |
| 10 | Like the other women , I 'd recently left my own home because I could n't carry on there any longer and I 'd been given safe spaces by friends with room to spare . |
| 11 | I asked him how long he had been with the Republicans and he said , ‘ Three weeks — I 'm a sales manager and I 've been given leave of absence by my company just to produce last night 's rally . ’ |
| 12 | Anyway , we 're here for the indefinite future and I 've been given the job of furnishing the hotel . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've worked for fourteen years in this business and I 've been given to understand that I should get a partnership one day . ’ |
| 14 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 15 | My mate and I had been given a long list of names , of Bulawayo people we should meet . |
| 16 | I am disabled with arthritis and I have been given a Singer KE2400 , the green one . |
| 17 | Mr Murray replied , ‘ The Chairman and the Executive Board are backing this campaign and I have been given the ‘ teeth to police ’ the changeover and to deal with transgressors . ’ |
| 18 | I 've often puzzled over whether , if I 'd been given guidance , would I have chosen differently ? |
| 19 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 20 | if I 'd been given the choice , erm you know if they 'd said you know okay you 're next , you going I 'd have said no thanks , send somebody else , but er |
| 21 | I feel as if I 've been given knock-out drops . |
| 22 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
| 23 | But if I had been given the chance when I was younger I might easily have made a mistake and gone for good looks and he might have turned out to be Old Nick to live with . |
| 24 | I do n't know if Craig has told you , but I 've been given authority to extend our maintenance contract with you for a further year , without going to tender . |
| 25 | ‘ No , but I 've been giving it a lot of thought , and it seems to me that the person who fits the bill is … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I felt I never got a chance there , but I have been given the chance at Norwich and I 'm very pleased with how well it has gone . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Because I 've been given my marching orders , ’ Ellie said more shortly than she 'd intended . |
| 28 | In Chronic Diseases we are told that when giving remedies in solid form i.e. solid form i.e. granules or powders dry on the tongue , Hahnemann found that remedies prepared with more than two shakes were too strong so stayed with two strokes for consistency ; but during the last years since I have been giving every dose of medicine in a solution , divided over fifteen , twenty or thirty days and even more , no potentizing in an attenuating vial is found too strong , and again I use ten strokes . ’ |
| 29 | but I have actually worked for organizations where they do see it in terms of those centimetre arr erm measurements and that 's a you know I mean it 's funny when I 've been giving talks on communications erm one of the things I say to people is erm where your stuff appears is crucial do n't worry about one and page three . |
| 30 | Anyway , as I have been given more recognition and opportunity to draw to my strengths under your editorship , I would like to express my appreciation and thanks for giving me a ‘ go ’ . |