Example sentences of "[conj] i gave " in BNC.

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1 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 …
2 In I gave the book to him or I gave him the book , him would normally be considered thematic in FSP theory .
3 Well yes , but let me say that I gave up going to auditions well before I became well known through The History Man , on television .
4 Not that I gave it serious thought .
5 He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff …
6 It was at this point that I gave up any hopes for an aviation career simply because of the increasing high cost of hiring that DH Moth for a few hours every weekend .
7 It was in those days , when Margaret was still alive , that I gave my former colleague Peter Duval-Smith — whose private life and whose work as an academic journalist always seemed to be equally chaotic — the introduction to Braemar Mansions that he so much wanted .
8 ‘ Bear in mind that I gave my evidence after Blissett had been charged by the FA for a serious breach of the laws of the game — and the experienced commission of inquiry , which conducted a rigorous investigation into the incident , cleared him .
9 I think it was on that Sunday , but it may have been on the Sunday before , that I gave the last message from the Burma Broadcasting Service .
10 In a lecture that I gave in Rome I tried to show that in spite of what Thomas Kuhn says ( which has been much exaggerated by his followers ) , you can not write the history of any branch of knowledge , whatever it may be , from a completely relativist point of view .
11 ‘ And he just stood there , ’ Emlyn concluded , ‘ looking so desperate that I gave us both an enormous gin and tonic ! ’
12 It was n't till we were on the boat that I gave Oliver a thought , to be honest .
13 Right quite an awkward one that I gave you .
14 I was so surprised that I gave a great shout .
15 I was n't aware that I gave that impression .
16 Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse .
17 He feasted for months , for years , on a small pair of my slippers that I gave him ; I expect he has burnt them by now .
18 I do n't that I had n't forgotten that I gave a
19 I mean you could forget this list that I gave th b that gave you , unless there 's anything on it that is still relevant , but find the things yourself on that topic so that on Thursday Next Thursday you can each spend ten minutes talking about things which you 've read in your topic specifically .
20 It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya .
21 Er , oh in the example that I gave , yes , because it was totalling what the grand total .
22 You 'll notice that I gave that one a miss , because I had erm , so much more pressing things to do .
23 It was n't until he called in at the vicarage and found the vicar shot , stabbed , strangled and poisoned that I gave up completely .
24 I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply that I gave some moments ago .
25 I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that I gave some moments ago .
26 I refer my hon. Friend to the answer that I gave some moments ago .
27 I refer my hon. Friend to the answer that I gave some moments ago .
28 I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply that I gave some moments ago .
29 I refer the right hon. Gentleman to the reply that I gave some moments ago .
30 I refer the hon. and learned Gentleman to the reply that I gave a few moments ago .
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