Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only meant to give her a scare . |
| 2 | I just wanted to give her a fright , that 's all . |
| 3 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 4 | Er j I just wanted to give you a bit of background so you know who you 're talking with . |
| 5 | Thompson , 29 , said : ‘ I was feeling tired , suffering from cramp and with only five minutes to go I just decided to give it a whack . |
| 6 | I desperately wanted to give him hope — by then I had begun reading the ‘ complementary ’ literature and was coming to realise all I might be able to do for myself . |
| 7 | I immediately started giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and heart massage . |
| 8 | In the first accident last October , climber Wayne Gladwyn dislodged a telly sized chunk from a ledge 40 feet above the Horseshoe Bend , unfortunately arriving on the deck at the same time as the rock , which narrowly missed giving him a potentially fatal bashing on the head . |
| 9 | An upward blow to the nose , driving it towards the forehead could seriously injure your attacker when you only intended to give him a bloody nose . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sure she 'll understand , ’ Alice said , willing herself not to touch Harry 's dark curls , not to draw his head against her breast for the comfort she so longed to give him . |
| 11 | He was pondering how to chat him up without attracting too much attention from Blanche and Eddy , when he heard the superintendent ask the man from the Drugs Squad who exactly had given them the tip-off in the first place . |
| 12 | Well , she just decided to give it u to give it up , she never used to take much anyway . |
| 13 | Then the nice soldiers on leave who came to stay with us-and silly but nice old Narodo , our second bearer , who always forgot to give us plates at meals ? |
| 14 | So was Lili , who now proceeded to give us an account of the contents of the British Museum . |
| 15 | He was taken away from his home on the night of 29 March by a man who reportedly came to give him information about his two ‘ disappeared ’ sons . |
| 16 | She sometimes had given him the spare front door key but he denied having had the key on the day of her death . |
| 17 | We just wanted to give it a few years to see what would happen , concentrating on what we hoped would come together some day . |
| 18 | ‘ We simply wanted to give them a pay rise for trying their best , ’ said company chairman Brian . |
| 19 | Er and usually we maybe had to give them a holiday . |
| 20 | When Izzy Kleiber was punished for his treachery , they only meant to give him a cruel ducking and a bad fright ; no one had taken into account the heavy rains . |
| 21 | He only wanted to give you eight pounds a performance , but I pushed him up . ’ |
| 22 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 23 | No he just had to give me one |
| 24 | He did n't mean any harm , he just wanted to give them back . |
| 25 | Only it still managed to give her an excuse not to look at him . |
| 26 | He sometimes had given her a lift to Atherton , Manchester , where she had been staying . |