Example sentences of "i give [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 Dear Anne , can I give him up ?
2 Can I give you out there .
3 How could I give it up , even for the splendid trappings that have fallen to my lot ?
4 If I give myself up , I 'll be charged with murder . ’
5 I give them back cleaned up with spit .
6 I give him back the open paper .
7 But I give it back to er cos I have two pleadings bundles .
8 So I took the price off it when I give it back to Woolworths , er to er
9 No I give it back next Friday .
10 Tomorrow before I give it back .
11 So I gave them up , gave them all up .
12 That 's why I wanted to start them so I gave them back to him .
13 I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home …
14 I was out for four and a half months , then I gave myself up because I was carrying my daughter , Sasha .
15 I was never given the chance to write Stephen a letter explaining why I gave him up for when he is older or anything .
16 He thanked me , and I gave him back the royal Elphberg ring .
17 ‘ No , I gave you back some tearducts when I inserted the new model .
18 I thought that I was being stupid , so I gave it up .
19 I really got embarrassed collecting my dole , and in the end I gave it up .
20 I would have had another one on the third day as well , but I gave it up for the opportunity to go rabbiting with the lad who worked for Brian .
21 I gave it up and sat still , content to watch .
22 I missed it when I gave it up to get married .
23 ‘ Oh , I gave it up ages ago . ’
24 I gave it up .
25 I gave it up , it gave me up . ’
26 ‘ But it was too much hard work and sacrifice , so I gave it up when I was sixteen .
27 But when it stopped being a thrill , I gave it up . ’
28 I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed .
29 I gave it back to him and he took some , then he gave it back to me .
30 I glanced quickly at it but found it too difficult to understand , so I gave it back .
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