Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] give [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The road had for so long been the only goal that I 'd given no thought to anything beyond . |
| 2 | ‘ I said that I liked to give the islanders the impression that I lived alone . ’ |
| 3 | A quick sideways prod of the transfer gear-lever was all that I needed to give the big machine the traction of a funicular railway , as if an invisible cable winch was hauling me up . |
| 4 | He adds : ‘ I also felt that I wanted to give the love that I felt for her in the way she needs love to be given . ’ |
| 5 | I regret to say that I forgot to give the Vice Chairman 's apologies for non-attendance . |
| 6 | And he says it 's more than I 've given the others because they did have an increase . |
| 7 | There are detectives and DCIs and Chief Supers and Commanders every fucking where ; more tecs and CID guys and Anti-Terrorism Squad chaps and regional guys than you can shake a nightstick at , all asking questions , all asking the same fucking questions and me trying to give the same fucking answers ; seeing DI McDunn , sucking saliva through his teeth and letting me share.his B&Hs , is like meeting an old pal even though he 's got all his questions too . |
| 8 | There are volumes of evidence to substantiate what my hon. Friend has said , and I hope to give the House some examples . |
| 9 | Erm , so I 'm hoping that that will work , it 's it 's down in the diary for him to do that , and and I 've given a little note about what the Adult School is all about . |
| 10 | Wordsworth concludes The Prelude with tributes to his sister Dorothy , and to S. T. Coleridge , both of whom , in their different ways , helped him to resolve the personal crisis into which the events of the 1790s had led him , and I have given a short biography of each . |
| 11 | Well look folks we 'll have to stop now it 's gone eleven and I have to give a lecture Joy , er that was an excellent er summary , well done . |
| 12 | And I find this challenging , these talks , which is why I was n't at all sorry to be asked to do so and why I continue to do them and I enjoy giving the , I enjoy meeting people , I meet an awful lot of , of nice people . |
| 13 | ‘ I was driving home from Berkeley today and I stopped to give a chap a lift , and look who it was . ’ |
| 14 | The last show of the tour was in Atlanta and I decided to give a little party for the singers and musicians and the crew and I tried to rent a banquet room at the hotel , but because it was Thanksgiving Weekend , they said they could only give me a suite . |
| 15 | What if I wish to give a sum of capital or a sum in excess of my annual taxable income ? |
| 16 | Well no , what do I do about if I get given a detention ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ As you know I do n't work in the firm but I do give a hand with the accounts from time to time — ’ |
| 20 | ‘ No disrespect for the other players who may be left out , but I want to give the kids a bit of experience . ’ |
| 21 | Anyway , I will risk it , not because I want to give the fish a chance ; I do not believe in giving any fish a chance , I go to the races when I want to gamble . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 25 | Needing the number of a firm in Guildford ( Candy Domestic Equipment ) I had waited for five minutes for the inquiry people to answer , been cut short when I attempted to give the address and then handed out two minutes of silence . |