Example sentences of "i give [pron] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did I give you a good run for your money ? |
| 2 | I give them a hot mash too , as well as letting them scratch about here , we cook up all the scraps in the kitchen . |
| 3 | The only way people will trust me is if I give them a signed piece of paper with my address on . ’ |
| 4 | The penis stirs close to me , and I give it a wet nose . |
| 5 | come come I give you a nice kiss . |
| 6 | I give you , I give you a nice kiss |
| 7 | I give you a good example of that , erm , well not how easy it is , not on that , but how easy it is to get money without having the money , okay , Tony wants that , the computer |
| 8 | I give you a little bit of warning . |
| 9 | Do you think you can manage the walk back to Three Colt Street , if I give you a helping hand ? ’ |
| 10 | I gave them a bogus address but they did n't check it out . |
| 11 | I gave them a three-hour lecture on the basic principles of stochastics , he said . |
| 12 | Well , in my book nothing comes before football and so I gave them a simple ultimatum : ‘ Make your choice . |
| 13 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 14 | I gave them a three-minute start then Bogartishly gunned my heap . |
| 15 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 16 | I gave them a good show , with my writhings and moanings . |
| 17 | Well he said on that tape , I gave them a fat cheque of six thousand pounds . |
| 18 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 19 | ‘ I gave her a gruesome murder to deal with … homicide is new territory for women — the need for capture and revenge is largely masculine . ’ |
| 20 | I gave her a nasty smile and left it . |
| 21 | Here , ’ I gave her a printed business card , the one with my home telephone number on it . |
| 22 | Once Anne had accepted the fact that I was n't gon na work in the foreseeable future , and it was her choice that we stay , cos I gave her a clear choice , it was either move away where I could get work , or stay and suffer the wages of the dole like you know . |
| 23 | But I gave her a cold stare and fluffed my fur out ; I could n't have her thinking I was a pushover . |
| 24 | I gave her a large handkerchief . |
| 25 | I got out of the car and ran to my front door , my mum answered the door , she looked quite different but I gave her a massive cuddle and went indoors . |
| 26 | I gave him a real dressing-down . ’ |
| 27 | I gave him a ridiculous list of things ( most of them I do n't want , but it 'll keep him busy ) to buy . |
| 28 | I gave him a good going-over , I can tell you . |
| 29 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 30 | I gave him a final wave just before we turned into the approach road leading to the village . |