Example sentences of "i give [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I give lectures in the autumn , I do quite a lot of management seminars and inspirational speaking at sales conferences . |
| 2 | Still , taking it for what it is , I can report that it is on the whole satisfactorily performed , due mainly to the merits of the soloists : Barbara Schlick 's soprano rings out finely in the wonderful air with cello , ‘ What passion can not Music raise or quell ’ ( I give titles in the familiar English rather than the German used here , of course ) , and again in her paean of the organ , though in the final chorus the sense and the noble simplicity of the solo soprano in turn with the choir , a real piece of English eccentricity , somehow becomes merely odd in German . |
| 3 | But it so happens , you might say well all these years retired I ca n't be much good at the job , you 'll be interested to know that I give talks to groups which include retiring tax inspectors . |
| 4 | IT is difficult to say what " slowly " varying is until I give examples of " fast " varying phenomena . |
| 5 | One exercise I give classes in creative writing is to think of someone , Miss or Mr O'Connor , standing by a window reading a letter . |
| 6 | I give suggestions about savoury , sweet and fruit and vegetable dishes and also about food that will fit into the themes I have described . |
| 7 | I give thanks to the Lord that he has seen fit now to bless my long devotion to the wind . |
| 8 | To Timothy his dear dad great mercy and peace to you from God the father and Christ Jesus our Lord I give thanks to the God of my forefathers who I worship with a clear conscience when I mention you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day . |
| 9 | When I think of my previous existence — of all I thought I could reasonably expect of the rest of my life , an allowed place at the extreme corner of someone 's drawing-room carpet , a Servant 's garret or no better , I give thanks for every little thing , which is unspeakably dear to me . |
| 10 | In 4.2 I gave reasons for doubting the existence or if not the existence the usefulness of infallible beliefs . |
| 11 | On the following day I gave directions for expedition , and also for the service of evidence , which was most commendably complied with by all concerned during the intervening five days , which included the May bank holiday weekend . |
| 12 | I gave alms to all the blind beggars , lit candles without believing at all in their efficacy . |
| 13 | I gave talks on those subjects the participants judged to be of most interest ( e.g. tense and aspect , sentence connexion ) , and the Workshop progressed from the theoretical basis of communicative grammar to descriptive topics , and finally ( in the last two days ) to detailed devising and planning of teaching materials . |
| 14 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 15 | I gave thanks to the priestess of that oracle and left the X-ray Department in a state of exhausted exultation . |
| 16 | I wrote scientific papers by dictating to a secretary , and I gave seminars through an interpreter who repeated my words more clearly . |
| 17 | But you 'll have to let me give instructions to my men . ’ |
| 18 | To ask me to give commitments in advance of the review is an outrageous request , and I can not meet that commitment for the reasons that I have given . |
| 19 | If the owner could write to me giving details of the camera case , I will gladly return it to him ( her ) . |