Example sentences of "i [adv] give the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gladly give the undertaking for which the hon. Gentleman asks and we will keep him well informed of the findings that emerge from this most recent accident . |
| 2 | ‘ I just gave the knob on the end a push ! ’ |
| 3 | Did I ever give the slightest sign … ? ’ |
| 4 | Why am I always given the responsibility of looking after the microphones , I 've done this for years well think about this brother here , he made cheese for years and he did n't like the job one bit , now is n't that strange , do you know why ? |
| 5 | I 'm a very new driver so I 'm very careful and very cautious , not a very good pedestrian , I tend to wave a fist and walk out whereas I always give the other person , you know I always sort of wave them on whereon in the car being a very new driver I am very cautious |
| 6 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I never gave the adhesive a thought , ’ Bob Lane said slowly . |
| 8 | And whilst in a Shakespeare play well , let me just give the , give the ex erm example that if this was a Shakespeare play for example , and you , you had all these characters in disguise conning other people and whatever , by the end of the play everybody would be out of their disguises and marrying each other and all the bad people would have been consigned , you know , to stage off |