Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] him a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 2 | So I found him a small house called Kirk o'Field , outside Edinburgh . |
| 3 | A minute later I give him a smaller brown one back . |
| 4 | Often he was right , often I gave him a bad time for sticking his nose in . |
| 5 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |