Example sentences of "i [verb] give [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 2 | ‘ I hate to give up when we 're so close . |
| 3 | ‘ No one knows more than me how much I owe to this country , how much I vow to give back to it for what it has done to me , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ I HAVE REACHED THIRTY AND I WANT TO GIVE UP SEX'N'DRUGS ‘ N ’ ROCK'N'ROLL . |
| 5 | We 've waited so long , I 'd given up all hope of ever having a bairn . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah , erm I er , I 'd given up erm about se seven weeks ago , and I was told that it was an anti-depressant and when I came off the cigarettes it was just terrible ! |
| 7 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 8 | ‘ There I was being really good , ’ Leslie says , ‘ I 'd given up smoking seven months before I became pregnant to get it all out of my body . |
| 9 | ‘ If you 'd like to know the truth , I 'd given up all thought of trying to persuade you to visit Bertha . |
| 10 | I 'd given up about three weeks before but I was ready to beg from him . |
| 11 | Well that 's the thing I have I had to give up years ago . |
| 12 | What excuse am I going to give there ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Why do I have to give up Tony when you wo n't give Domino up ? ’ |
| 14 | Depressed people can of course make hasty and unwise decisions , and I made one such decision when , during my second term at Berkeley , I decided to give up my London flat . |
| 15 | Bored with the enterprise , I decided to give up . |
| 16 | Eventually I decided to give up . |
| 17 | I used to drink really quite strong before , but I decided to give up erm , like , take less sugar , so if you take less sugar , I think I only took two sugars anyway , 'cos my tea was so strong , 'cos 'cos the stronger it is , you need more sugar to sweeten it . |
| 18 | So I decided to give up one sugar and you know , I have to take it sort of weak weaker anyway . |
| 19 | But I managed to give out some positive body language , and at least came through with a win . ’ |
| 20 | When I try to give up who I am erm none of who I am has to do with this external er additional tool . |
| 21 | I did give not give my public support to the scheme , in fact I feel most strongly that the cost of membership or the large increases in charges proposed will only succeed in driving away the poor . |
| 22 | Erm I did give out a plea about two hours ago that I lost my umbrella at the music festival this weekend . |
| 23 | I used to like giving poetry readings , but in the end I had to give up , for I could not stand the socializing afterwards , as if my poetry had just been the excuse for a drinking spree à la Dylan Thomas . |
| 24 | And from this time I knew I had to give up so many things — my sailing and so on — but the music came back to me a hundred times better . |
| 25 | I had to give up caddying when I left school to take up other jobs , but carrying the bags was in my blood and by the time I was twenty-four I was back to caddying full-time . |
| 26 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 27 | I had to give up my All or Nothing scenario , in which my child either remains completely untouched by drugs or ends her short life with a needle in her arm . |
| 28 | And life was even tougher when I had to give up my job to care for Gran — ’ |
| 29 | ‘ When we got married for instance , I had to give up teaching because there was a regulation which said husbands and wives could n't both teach and of course it was the wives who left . ’ |
| 30 | However , I had to give in when , a few days later , Christopher returned from school and informed me that his teacher said a dog added to the character of a child and also taught compassion . |