Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea is that formalizing it much the same as you had , I 'd just given and it 's got induction er it 's got A B C erm there are personal details so that departments people picking up , see where they 've gone , see where they 've been and in things like skills , knowledge required , objectives start , finish dates how and with whom results comments . |
| 2 | I 'd already given up trying to please my father . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ It was something I 'd never given any thought to , but it was nice to be asked , and when the Ulster Branch were happy to accept my nomination I was delighted to take up the offer . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd almost given you up , ’ said Emlyn , half nettled , half intrigued . |
| 5 | I 'd almost given up hope that you 'd ever see me as a girl … a woman . |
| 6 | But I 've walked past so many pretty dresses and little socks with lacy tops , I 'd almost given up . |
| 7 | I mean Aunty Mary , well I do n't given up talking to her she 'd she says bus and I just let it go . |
| 8 | I had n't given up , but that was an ever-present temptation which had to be fought . |
| 9 | Doone gave me a sorrowful stare , but I had n't given a thought to his wanting secrecy . |
| 10 | ‘ I wish I had n't given up , ’ Alison was saying , ‘ it was just lack of courage . ’ |
| 11 | I had n't given it houseroom for long enough . |
| 12 | It came at once in the form of none other than the mighty Lord 's Prayer ; but it was n't until I got to the line about daily bread that I saw the light — I had n't given her any ! |
| 13 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 14 | I 'll , I 'll get you some in a minute , er , I 'll carry on if er , if er , you do n't mind I 've got , oh here we are , I fo , I had n't given them out sorry . |
| 15 | ‘ I may as well confess , I had n't given it a single thought . ’ |
| 16 | And I had n't given my permission . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Going back to that Monday — I had introduced my secretary to you and , up until the point where he asked if he could drive you back to your hotel , I had n't given any thought as to how you would get back there . ’ |
| 18 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 19 | Though I had worked out every detail for me and the wheelbarrow , I had not given much thought to the Land Rover . |
| 20 | I treated myself to a night in the Ceilidh Place ; I had not given up the habit of including the dangly earrings and the flowery trousers in the rucksack . |
| 21 | It was true that I had given him life but I had not given him love . |
| 22 | I felt as if I had just given birth . |
| 23 | ( I must tell here the story of a charming American lady who approached me when I had just given a talk on regression therapy . |
| 24 | Earlier I had felt as if I was being torn in two , but now the decision was made , I was floating on a warm tide of physical ease , as if I had just given birth . |
| 25 | I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation . |
| 26 | Ben and I had just given a recital in Vienna . |
| 27 | Bungee Jumping was something I had never given much thought to , never mind considered actually doing myself . |
| 28 | But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given , that for anything I knew , the watch might have always been there . |
| 29 | But I was dreading the French paper to which I had only given the dregs of my time as I had had so much else on my plate . |
| 30 | I had once given a few lessons to a nun at a convent not far from where I lived , so that I was slightly known there . |