Example sentences of "i [am/are] [verb] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am trying to give you hard facts , tell you how the traits of human personality are carried from parents to offspring , tell you accurately how the environment modifies inherited characteristics . |
| 2 | I am going to give it to her son . |
| 3 | ‘ I am going to give you a sedative , Miss Thorne , and some tablets . ’ |
| 4 | And now I am going to have to tell you WHAT TO DO and WHAT NOT TO DO , but this time it 's a bit different because the DOs and DON'Ts that I am going to give you may easily SAVE YOUR LIFE . |
| 5 | ‘ I am going to give you the whipping you long for , and you do n't want your flesh cut to ribbons , do you ? ’ |
| 6 | " I do n't say I am going to give you the job . |
| 7 | No thanks , I 'm trying to give them up : at IBM Corp , writes the Wall Street Journal , RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp chief executive Louis Gerstner ‘ may find some eerie parallels between RJS 's chief product , cigarettes , and IBM 's leading product , mainframes — both are high profit margin products with slumping sales that are sold mostly to long-time customers who ca n't break the habit , ’ it says . |
| 8 | I 'm trying to give them up . ’ |
| 9 | Yeah yeah I mean I 'm trying to give you a score here |
| 10 | I 'm trying to give you an idea of how big the field is . |
| 11 | so I 'm trying to give you that one . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm trying to give it up . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm trying to give it , that 's all . ’ |
| 14 | But Derek , 33 , was quietly confident when they met and vowed : ‘ I 'm determined to give them a run for their money . ’ |
| 15 | I know , but I 'm loathed to give them out . |
| 16 | Then I 'm going to give her to mummy yummy for a feed . |
| 17 | I would an for two reasons I , I 'm going to give her quite a long course . |
| 18 | Erm where I find I ca n't understand the regional accent I 'm going to give them back to the person who recorded them |
| 19 | I 'm going to give them another hour and then that 's it — they can all go home . |
| 20 | and then we 're just waiting with Western House , I 'm going to give them a buzz about one o'clock and ask them what the hell they 're playing at ! |
| 21 | The Pilot Survey showed some monitoring , further standardisation of the equipment was essential , mainly though , I 'm going to make sure all schools have got the same pipes and connector and I 'm going to give them some solutions to test because there was a bit of variation between schools , and there will be variation geographically , so I want to be able to have a measure of any error that will be involved as well . |
| 22 | ‘ He believes he can beat me so I 'm going to give him the opportunity to try . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm going to give him rock all , ’ he adds . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm going to give you the score on that once and for all . |
| 25 | He says to me , ‘ Tip , I 'm going to give you more money than anyone 's ever given a caddie before , but just look after my clubs . |
| 26 | I 'm going to give you all the things you ca n't do . ’ |
| 27 | This month I 'm going to give you some common licks that demonstrate how to link up various positions on the fretboard using pentatonic scales . |
| 28 | There the two big pieces of work that we 've done together so far , in a minute I 'm going to give you a printed sheet |
| 29 | You do n't look as if you mean it , sit down please because my lesson started ten minutes ago there 's one over there Now in a minute I 'm going to give you a printed sheet and it 's going to ask you how well you think you 're doing . |
| 30 | And what happens in actual human situations which are what get me , and I 'm going to give you three and I guarantee their genuineness you will doubt them all I have not the least fear but I guarantee you their genuineness , they come from the records of Age Concern Scotland of which I am the president . |