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Example sentences of "i [verb] give [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	So I tend to give them a wide berth wherever possible .
2	I tried to give him a withering look .
3	I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left .
4	‘ But I want to give you a little help with your wicket keeping .
5	She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn .
6	Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face .
7	Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd
8	Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing !
9	By this time Desmond had nearly stopped on the flarepath and I decided to give him a wide berth .
10	So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience ,
11	Well , six fifty I got if for like , I try give him a six hundred and he ummed and ahhed and then he said well he said well I 'll take the six hundred he said , can you manage the hundred quid over the next five or six weeks ?
12	I give them a , I did give them a good rinse afterwards though .
13	I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance .
14	I had to give him a bloody week !
15	Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’
16	Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper .
17	Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile !
18	I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive .
19	‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’
20	I 've given her a mild sedative and I 'll sit here with her myself until she sleeps . ’
21	I 've given him an anti-tetanus injection and told him not to shave over those scratches for the next few days . ’
22	( And for those clever dicks asking why I 've given it a higher rating here than in the footy feature , it 's 'coz I did n't know it was on budget then .
23	and I 've given you a good old fashioned tonic to get your strength all up again .
24	If you 're talking about learning theory , well I 've given you a few names .
25	I 've given you the two , er , the one that gives you the most space for the day , on the basis that if you have too much space for daily planning , it 's maybe irritating .
26	I 've given you the best six months of
27	I said we 've got er , the best claims experience , I 've given you the one pamphlet , Women at Risk , which points out , women used to say , oh , a stroke it wo n't happen to me , cancer it wo n't happen to me .
28	‘ I 've given you the total message . ’
29	Oh god I 've give you a bloody handful now so that was stupid .
30	Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on .