Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] give i the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 2 | It would n't have surprised me if you 'd given me the boot there and then . |
| 3 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you going to give me the macho caveman act ? |
| 5 | Now you 've given me the same answer for two different inputs , but that 's okay . |
| 6 | ‘ And you 've given me the impression you wanted to see me , too . ’ |
| 7 | Thanks very much Mark , you 've given me the hardest part . |
| 8 | She glared at me , dug beneath her cloak and pushed a purse ( much leaner than the one she had given me the night before ) into my hand . |
| 9 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |
| 10 | With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it . |
| 11 | Did I say that she 's given me the diary ? ’ |
| 12 | They did give me the name of the hospital Salome was in and the taller one told me that the accident had happened ‘ just off the M20 near Wrotham ’ , but they had no more details , they were just running errands for the Kent police . |
| 13 | It 's a compliment in itself that they 've given me the chance … ’ |
| 14 | They 've given me the main facts . |
| 15 | ‘ Then they have given me the slip again . |
| 16 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ As far as Frank is concerned , he is entirely satisfied with what I am doing and he has given me the space to get on with it . |
| 18 | But I would hope , I mean it has given me the the wish to go on living in a similar kind of situation . |
| 19 | Perhaps he thought that , and he 'd given me the slip . |
| 20 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 21 | I said ’ Oh yes ’ and I saw the and he 'd kept the collar on , and of course he 'd given me the one that tossed his head up did n't he ! |
| 22 | If he had given me the £5000 , under the rules at the time I would have had to donate 15 per cent to the British Board — totally unfair in my view as I had had to find the sponsorship myself . |
| 23 | He had given me the runaround in his sleep . |
| 24 | Just to add to what 's been said erm there , there have been some points raised er along the lines I 've mentioned and as a result of that erm it is felt that erm notification to members who are not on the application sub-committee of applications which affect their ward area could be improved and that is er I hope to be the subject of a report to the next meeting of the Application Sub-Committee , so that er matter i is something which is , which is being picked up and will be considered by that sub-committee but it does give me the opportunity to say that erm the definition of a complaint i is certainly not a precise one and I certainly would n't want members of this committee to feel that I was being complacent er as a result of there only being three complaints that we received . |
| 25 | Bob wanted chicken tikka massala and then he said give me the list and wrote down on it two chicken tikka massalas so I look on that and I ca n't see anything two chicken kormas , one and two chicken tikka massalas . |
| 26 | Dad and I went in and Mr Vulcan explained that he wished to give me the harmonium and that there was a clean bed upstairs if we wanted it . |
| 27 | It 's given me the chance to look further into two books that I 've really enjoyed reading than I ever usually would . |
| 28 | Because he 's given me the greatest gift of friendship . |
| 29 | He 's given me the key to his apartment . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ He 's given me the task of looking after your wants and bearing you company . |