Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [be] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perfectly genuine with Ana and not at all uncommon , as I am given to understand . |
| 2 | Right ah can we connect again with a couple of people we we coming up there if anybody out there er is a fan of Mary Whitehouse 's as I am give me a call and you know you know who I 'm talking to ring now . |
| 3 | Successful hedonists are , for short periods , very sensitive to the feelings of those with whom they talk , drink or make love , postpone the question ‘ Am I getting as much as I am giving ? ’ , and do not revert to egoism until the party is over . |
| 4 | Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past . |
| 5 | As I was giving this description it came to me that I was talking about someone else . |
| 6 | And now , just as I was giving up all hope … |
| 7 | It was expensive , but as I was giving up my holiday I saw no reason why the department should n't pay . |
| 8 | But still United pushed forward , Simpson a free kick went over the cross bar in the twenty third minute and then , just as I was giving a flash to Radio Oxford listeners , United pulled one back on the half hour . |
| 9 | It said , " I 'm probably saying more than I should , but as I 'm giving you the information without you asking for It , I do n't think it 's covered by the rules . |
| 10 | One of the orderlies said , ‘ As long as you 're giving away women , Khan — ’ |
| 11 | It 's a shame that someone as obviously capable of expressing himself as you is given to such bursts of undisguised racism and ignorance . |
| 12 | In many of the analogous medieval fabliaux of a miller and two clerks , the one clerk 's designs upon the daughter are motivated by simple lust , because she is beautiful , and involve her deception too , as she is given , in the dark , what she is told is a gold ring but which is simply an iron ring off an andiron in the fireplace . |
| 13 | She entered Sister 's office just as she was giving a final briefing to Staff Nurse Target , who had also worked a split shift . |
| 14 | It is n't as pretty as we are given to understand in fairy tales . ’ |
| 15 | ( Of course , no utterances are safe from the post-Freudian trick of claiming that they mean the opposite of what they say , but in the interpretation of literary texts we must be given additional , fairly unequivocal evidence of a discrepancy between speech and meaning , as we are given for Iago , but not for Othello . ) |
| 16 | Adrian , who professes to prefer football to cricket , will certainly be paying more attention to the game from now on , particularly as we are giving him a year 's membership to the Young Cricketer Bunbury as our Young Cricketer of the Month . |
| 17 | As we were giving our hands he looked up at me intently and told me that in two days there would be a gypsy wedding . |
| 18 | Wetland plants will be in their element , so long as they are given generous mulches to keep the moisture in . |
| 19 | Listen attentively , and if information or details have to be recorded , write them down clearly and legibly , as they are given . |
| 20 | ( 8 ) The text of the tender advertisement must be cleared with the Quotations Department if the offer is made on the London Stock Exchange but otherwise with the Panel and copies of the final text must be given to both at the same time as they are given to the newspapers . |
| 21 | They should have been , as they were given the same rations as a British farm labourer . |
| 22 | Clearly the movies now felt that they could look the reformers of the early twentieth century firmly in the eye and the film-industry boosters were now giving back as good as they were given . |
| 23 | Then , as soon as they were given access to each other , and also to the small molecules needed as raw materials , in water , both got back to their old tricks even though they were no longer in a living cell but in a test tube . |
| 24 | No thought of the future , whether it was to be spent in jail or exile or even in restored fortune — no thought of it was to mar those living moments as they were given to her . |
| 25 | When a FOREIGN module is read from LIFESPAN , the files are re-created with the same file names as they were given in the module header . |
| 26 | It is for the national court to interpret and apply the legislation adopted for the implementation of the directive in conformity with the requirements of Community law , in so far as it is given discretion to do so under national law . ’ |
| 27 | However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax . |
| 28 | Ironically , during the war years , the pitch was in better condition than it had ever been , as it was given over to the growing of carrots and potatoes . |
| 29 | I do n't want you to give me your answers now , I am as it were giving you the opportunity now , over lunch , to consider this matter . |
| 30 | WAVE OF SUPPORT : Tebbit greets delegates as he is given a standing ovation after his onslaught on John Major yesterday |