Example sentences of "i had [adv] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't given up , but that was an ever-present temptation which had to be fought . |
| 2 | Doone gave me a sorrowful stare , but I had n't given a thought to his wanting secrecy . |
| 3 | ‘ I wish I had n't given up , ’ Alison was saying , ‘ it was just lack of courage . ’ |
| 4 | I had n't given it houseroom for long enough . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I may as well confess , I had n't given it a single thought . ’ |
| 9 | And I had n't given my permission . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Though I had worked out every detail for me and the wheelbarrow , I had not given much thought to the Land Rover . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was true that I had given him life but I had not given him love . |
| 15 | I felt as if I had just given birth . |
| 16 | ( I must tell here the story of a charming American lady who approached me when I had just given a talk on regression therapy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ben and I had just given a recital in Vienna . |
| 20 | Bungee Jumping was something I had never given much thought to , never mind considered actually doing myself . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He took vulgar public revenge on me by mocking in the pages of Madame Bovary a seal I had once given him as a token of love . |
| 25 | On the positive side , I drank in moderation and never spirits , and I had virtually given up smoking many years ago . |
| 26 | ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . ) |
| 27 | By the time I had almost given up hope , a telegram arrived . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ It has been such a long time coming I had almost given up hope . |