Example sentences of "he [adv] give me [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vicar , Charles Fry , taught me elementary Greek on Saturdays in my latter years at school , and in return I wrote some letters at his dictation , for which he generously gave me a shilling an hour . |
| 2 | PETER NIVEN ( Rubika ) : ‘ Mine just was n't fast enough to stay with the leaders but he still gave me a wonderful ride . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He still gives me the creeps , ’ said Lydia . |
| 4 | And whatever he may have tried to gain from me , he also gave me a great deal . ’ |
| 5 | He kindly gave me a lift home en route to get his bike : he had a nasty fall off it last week and so it had to be repaired . |
| 6 | One or two people in the streets talked to me , including the man who sold the corn to feed the pigeons in Trafalgar Square — in fact he even gave me a kiss . |
| 7 | He then gave me a slight shock by lapsing into a brief sort of reverie , and saying that if one had ever felt like ‘ murdering someone ’ , one could never do anything about it . |
| 8 | He then gave me the line , in Italian , from memory : ‘ Dimmi se mai fu fatto qualque cosa ? ’ — ‘ Tell me if anything was ever done ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He never once put his hand into his box all the years that I served him , ’ meaning he never gave me a gift of money , a bonus for service above and beyond the call of time . |
| 10 | But he certainly gave me the impression the boat belonged to him . ’ |