Example sentences of "[conj] i give [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , heavy coughing always meant the possibility of water on the lungs which in turn could lead to pneumonia , so I gave her an injection of vitamin K , to thicken the blood , a sleeping pill , some linctus which contained a tiny amount of morphine , and also told her , ‘ Take one of these pills every morning for a week . ’ |
| 2 | I could see that she was scowling and stiffening into a Mark 2 temper , so I gave her an encouraging smile — which raised her , as I expected , to a Mark 3 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ So I gave him a clip across the back and told him ‘ No ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well he needed a refill so I gave him a hand to push his hand cart into Berkeley last night . |
| 7 | Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom . |
| 8 | He kept stealing Nigel 's food , so I gave him a bowl of his own every day . ’ |
| 9 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 10 | Look Charlotte ca n't do anything without being messy , look , the other , the other erm morning I went to school to pick Ben up , er and I put her in the car seat , she 's lovely and clean , and I give her a biscuit , by the time we got |
| 11 | I was walking along with my girl and I see my old man and I was scared , you know , smoking , but at the same time I did n't want to throw it away because my girl was there , you know , and she 'd see it , and I just kept on walking and my old man stopped and said to me , ‘ Give me a light ’ , and I give him a light , and he said , ‘ I 'm away to the shops ’ , and I was , you know , thinking , I can get away with this . |
| 12 | My legs are warm and I give them a feel . |
| 13 | Well he , he said if they , if , if , some , get a visitor in and I give them a cup of coffee well that 's all right , but I do n't know if it 's money or , or like maybe , maybe . |
| 14 | And er I so so I brought her and her three friends that she 'd run , chummed about with them and I give them a good talking to for about an hour . |
| 15 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 16 | You , you clean my black boots for me , polish my black boots for me and I give you a quid |
| 17 | Yeah and I give you a lift up to here . |
| 18 | I get this sort of aching feeling in my nose , and I give it a rub . |
| 19 | The penis stirs close to me , and I give it a wet nose . |
| 20 | Her father 's conviction unhinged what precarious stability she 'd managed to maintain and after she came out of the psychiatric hospital she got in touch with me and I gave her a job . |
| 21 | We got settled down in a couple of cane chairs , and I gave her a cigarette . |
| 22 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 23 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 24 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
| 25 | I therefore completed to his satisfaction all the forms he gave me , and I gave him a detailed written description of our proposal , and a revised working drawing showing greater detail , with both of which he seemed satisfied . |
| 26 | I worked in up there about nineteen fifty or fifty one when I had a dispute with the manager and I gave him a week 's notice . |
| 27 | Today Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him , and I gave him an answer . |
| 28 | I said to them it was placing the team and the ARFU in a terrible situation and I gave them a 5.30 pm deadline otherwise the tour was off . |
| 29 | We concluded by singing the carol O Come all ye Faithful and I gave them a blessing . |
| 30 | She has got in ( and out of ) problems with drugs , alcohol and a quasi-religious cult : ’ I was brainwashed and I gave them an enormous amount of money , ’ she says with a shrug . |