Example sentences of "i [vb past] give [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to give him a lead . |
| 2 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 3 | Last week in my talk I tried to give you an introduction to the subject we call art . |
| 4 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Because there was so little going on with the band I arranged to give myself a bit of a holiday . |
| 7 | Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing ! |
| 8 | It happened during the final couple of years of my marriage when , tired of the humiliation my husband 's affairs imposed on me , I decided to give him a taste of his own medicine . |
| 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 | ‘ In true Hitchcock tradition , I always make one appearance in each series of Rumpole , but this time I decided to give myself a speaking part , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Saturday morning , and once again a fair and breezy day , so fair that I decided to give myself a holiday from writing , and go straight after breakfast to pick up the supplies I would need for the weekend . |
| 13 | So I decided to give it a miss that day . |
| 14 | ‘ It was then that I decided to give it a try . |
| 15 | I offered to give him a game or two if he needed the practice but , as he soon told me , snooker training is a lot more complicated than that nowadays . |
| 16 | I give them a , I did give them a good rinse afterwards though . |
| 17 | I said give you a cuddle some time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I had to give him a bloody week ! |
| 20 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | While Elizabeth was in Athens I had given her a proof copy . |
| 25 | Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know if you know about the school , but — ’ I paused to give her a chance to answer . |
| 27 | I intended to give him a further lesson on the facts of life , later . |
| 28 | I intended to give you a card on Saturday but I completely forgot . |
| 29 | " I wanted to give him a nice gravestone , " she said . |
| 30 | Choosing what to include took some time , though I wanted to give it an artistic flavour . ’ |