Example sentences of "i [be] give [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
| 2 | ‘ I was given sanctuary in England in return for information about the Luciferi . ’ |
| 3 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 4 | I was given soup from the middle pot , meaning I had just managed to achieve my work quota . |
| 5 | A melon I was giving birth to it . |
| 6 | I was giving tea to my opponent who , though the same weight , was probably two years older , when I was sent for by Julian Hall , my fag master . |