Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] to give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once when I was in design and technology class , I asked him to give me a screw and he said , ‘ See me after school and I 'll give you one . ’ |
| 2 | I asked him to give me a list of potentially commercial sites in the city , based on his experience of sales and demands . |
| 3 | I asked him to give me an image for Love , something I could see , |
| 4 | He said that there is regular demand for shots of Sydney , and therefore it would be worth my while making a detour to extend my portfolio , I asked him to give me a list of potentially commercial sites in the city , based on his experience of sales and of demands . |
| 5 | However , I was not prepared just to accept him with no experience at all and I asked him to give me some sort of evidence about the amount of flying he had done . |
| 6 | If I asked you to give your usual willing hand , would … ? ’ |
| 7 | In the end I got them to give me the first aid outfit and fixed myself up . |
| 8 | I got them to give me the number for the cleaners ' mess-room and asked there . |
| 9 | ‘ I helped him to give parties . |
| 10 | I mean if I was a peasant and someone told me to give up drinking then I 'd , you know |
| 11 | I said it to give her a little confidence . |
| 12 | I tried to thank them , but I had nothing to give them . |
| 13 | ‘ Everyone told me to give up the womanising at my age . ’ |
| 14 | They had gunpowder and very sophisticated engineering devices well before the west , but one can document the fact that the Chinese gave up science , rather dramatically , erm in subsequent centuries , simply because they lost faith that there was any underlying order in nature to be discovered , that it was their background religion and philosophy which led them to give up the idea of unravelling the structure of the universe . |
| 15 | At the very height of the paroxysm , he made a movement with his knee which caused him to give a great cry which she , lost in the abandon of the moment , construed as passion , but was in fact a loud , animal yelp of pain . |
| 16 | Of his 8 previous Ulster supporters , 4 had gone down in defeat , I did not re-stand and 3 were marching under new orders which forbade them to give support as in the past . |
| 17 | At that time Poole , like John , had to rely on stage presence more than technique , but he had a powerful personality and a quick intelligent appreciation of character which enabled him to give memorable performances in many of John 's early ballets . |
| 18 | You asked me to give you a ring like . ’ |
| 19 | At our last meeting , you asked me to give you a reminder regarding the above . |
| 20 | You asked me to give you a note on my interest in bibliometric research on the Journal . |
| 21 | The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training . |
| 22 | ‘ And you asked her to give it to you so that you could return it to Rick . |
| 23 | He beat his drum under her window and she asked him to give her a rose . |
| 24 | ‘ She asked me to give it to the lady who had been in court with her child , and to ask if you would take care of her till she could come for her . ’ |
| 25 | She asked me to give you some good advice . |
| 26 | He had first met her in 1938 , when she invited him to give a reading at the Student Movement House of which she was Warden . |
| 27 | ‘ And you told him to give himself up ? ’ |
| 28 | Aide says , ‘ She met you in Aspen and you told her to give you a call when she got back into town . ’ |
| 29 | She felt she had something to give to college life |
| 30 | She looked at Gay , who was an only child too , but who had nobody to give her a good time , and then her glance travelled to Breeze , who had just admitted in her light-hearted fashion that she had no idea of what the future would hold for her . |