Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , looking out across the fertile fields he has cultivated out of bush , he says , ‘ Doris and I are going to give whatever experience we have to whoever rules the country tomorrow . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am trying to give people information about what 's happening inside their system , ’ he explains . |
| 3 | ‘ I am trying to give people information about what 's happening inside their system'PHOTOGRAPH : MANNI MASONS . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Cricket is the only even vaguely athletic endeavour I involve myself in , unless you count walking the dog or grovelling to my bank manager , so if I am forced to give up the game by the purchase of these new sightscreens , my fitness will suffer . |
| 6 | I will hand myself in as soon as they free Boler or I am required to give evidence at Boler 's appeal . |
| 7 | ‘ I am going to give you a sedative , Miss Thorne , and some tablets . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I am going to give you the whipping you long for , and you do n't want your flesh cut to ribbons , do you ? ’ |
| 10 | I am going to give it to her son . |
| 11 | " I do n't say I am going to give you the job . |
| 12 | Of course I accept that ruling entirely Mr Deputy Speaker but the point I was trying to make , I am going to give the speech very briefly indeed I do assure you , is that if you 're trying to assess the numbers er and the correctness of the numbers that are being er er going to vote for and indeed the boundaries associated with those numbers , it 's a perfectly I would have thought , fair question to ask oneself as they go off er from us as to what they are going off in to er and I I do assure you Mr Deputy Speake , I do n't plan to speak more than two minutes , two to three minutes on this matter , I do hope that you will allow me just to make a very brief point on this . |
| 13 | " May I be allowed to give my opinion ? " she asked . |
| 14 | Why should I be allowed to give him dietary advice and not be able to advise a young person not to engage in indiscriminate sexual activity ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm trying to give it up . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 'm trying to give it , that 's all . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm trying to give them up . ’ |
| 19 | Yeah yeah I mean I 'm trying to give you a score here |
| 20 | I would , but I you know , I 'm trying to give butter up . |
| 21 | I 'm trying to give you an idea of how big the field is . |
| 22 | so I 'm trying to give you that one . |
| 23 | But Derek , 33 , was quietly confident when they met and vowed : ‘ I 'm determined to give them a run for their money . ’ |
| 24 | I know , but I 'm loathed to give them out . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm going to give you the score on that once and for all . |
| 26 | But when it got to my last week I just thought stuff it , I 'm going to give it my best shot . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I 'm going to give you all the things you ca n't do . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm going to give all my shots away free this year . |
| 30 | 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 . |