Example sentences of "[conj] i give [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I gave him a clip across the back and told him ‘ No ! ’ |
| 2 | He kept stealing Nigel 's food , so I gave him a bowl of his own every day . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Well he needed a refill so I gave him a hand to push his hand cart into Berkeley last night . |
| 4 | Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom . |
| 5 | Look Charlotte ca n't do anything without being messy , look , the other , the other erm morning I went to school to pick Ben up , er and I put her in the car seat , she 's lovely and clean , and I give her a biscuit , by the time we got |
| 6 | I was walking along with my girl and I see my old man and I was scared , you know , smoking , but at the same time I did n't want to throw it away because my girl was there , you know , and she 'd see it , and I just kept on walking and my old man stopped and said to me , ‘ Give me a light ’ , and I give him a light , and he said , ‘ I 'm away to the shops ’ , and I was , you know , thinking , I can get away with this . |
| 7 | My legs are warm and I give them a feel . |
| 8 | Well he , he said if they , if , if , some , get a visitor in and I give them a cup of coffee well that 's all right , but I do n't know if it 's money or , or like maybe , maybe . |
| 9 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 10 | Yeah and I give you a lift up to here . |
| 11 | I get this sort of aching feeling in my nose , and I give it a rub . |
| 12 | Her father 's conviction unhinged what precarious stability she 'd managed to maintain and after she came out of the psychiatric hospital she got in touch with me and I gave her a job . |
| 13 | We got settled down in a couple of cane chairs , and I gave her a cigarette . |
| 14 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 15 | I worked in up there about nineteen fifty or fifty one when I had a dispute with the manager and I gave him a week 's notice . |
| 16 | We concluded by singing the carol O Come all ye Faithful and I gave them a blessing . |
| 17 | If every time you picked up the phone and made contact with somebody and I gave you a pound , would you accept that as a deal ? |
| 18 | If I gave her a pencil she 'd chuck it back at you . |
| 19 | Do you think if I , do you think if I gave him a fright , s see the , time he says he 's going off to his granny 's and I say away you go , and my mam says she 's not taking him . |
| 20 | At Oxford I discovered that most people were only too willing to be friendly if I gave them a chance . |
| 21 | Erm If I gave you a problem about sort of prices of apples and pears |
| 22 | And I said , Oh well there we are take it If I gave you a pound |
| 23 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 24 | I 'm sorry if I gave you a fright . |
| 25 | I 'm not comfortable but I suppose if I gave it a go I would get used to it . |
| 26 | If I give you a bit of paper and the lot , yeah well you know what to do and go to school and fill them in ! |
| 27 | I 'm going to bring in some illuminated medieval books for you to have a look at , because what you 're going to do is to write this out in best on special paper using illuminated letters and if you 're very good we will try to get them laminated so that we can keep them as an example of what year seven students can produce as their best work , to say to everybody , hey look at this , this is very good , now we ca n't do that if I give you a sheet of A four paper and you manage to fill less than a quarter of that space , so you 're going to need a minimum of ten different things that you would like to say you think are important , you believe are important , you believe they 're valuable and your homework over the next week is to finish that list if you want it to rhyme , well yes you can work on it to make it rhyme , if you want to have what we call rhyming couplet , er just one moment I have n't said clear away . |
| 28 | in another few weeks hard work and you 'll feel very What I 'll do is if I give you a note for a further two months , and we can Is your job safe ? |
| 29 | So as I said , if I give you a list of numbers , say two- or three- digit numbers |
| 30 | Erm simple as that if I give you a list of telephone numbers you 're not likely to remember them for long , you might be able |