Example sentences of "i [vb past] given [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 2 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 3 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 4 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
| 5 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 6 | Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper . |
| 7 | I had given them the idea that maybe they would become torturers . ’ |
| 8 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 11 | While Elizabeth was in Athens I had given her a proof copy . |
| 12 | Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously . |