Example sentences of "[vb past] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , Fiona told him not to be so bolshie , they 'll come about twoish and do n't forget you promised to give her your recipe for clafoutis . ’ |
| 2 | He promised to give me a silver coin every month for doing this . |
| 3 | As we ate , Dr Jaffery promised to give me a ring the following morning to confirm that the festival was going to be celebrated . |
| 4 | ‘ I expect it 's Vera — she promised to give me a recipe for salmon mousse . |
| 5 | In return for this information the chief priests promised to give him money . |
| 6 | The chief priests promised to give him thirty pieces of silver which , according to the Old Testament , was the price of a slave . |
| 7 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 8 | I gave it to Mrs Barrymore , and she promised to give it to him at once . ’ |
| 9 | Thomas Cromwell was offered £100 for his help in obtaining the post of justice in North Wales ; J. Lucas proposed to give him £10 for wine — literally a pourboire if appointed King 's Solicitor . |
| 10 | The men at the bar moved to give him room . |
| 11 | But as she bent to give her the bowl , she lowered her voice , and whispered in Rosa 's ear , ‘ Be careful , you 're not a child any more , you must n't forget that . |
| 12 | Kate bent to give her one last kiss . |
| 13 | From time to time I took in little details of his face : his small , neat ears round which the moonlight-blond locks curled ; the light golden stubble round his laughing mouth ; the rather dry , sensuous yet slightly cruel lips ; the perfect column of the neck and throat emerging from his open shirt , unbuttoned to give me — was it deliberate ? — a shadowy glimpse of a dark nipple in a hairless chest , the beautifully smooth breast of an ancient god . |
| 14 | Her background was a few rungs up from the Jenkinses and that elementary social fact helped to give her a poise in the face of his ever-increasing sureness . |
| 15 | Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce . |
| 16 | Assuming he was in trouble , he stopped to give him a lift … but the attacker threatened him with an iron bar and forced him to take tablets which made him unconscious . |
| 17 | The driver of a passenger lorry stopped to give me some bread and carrots . |
| 18 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 19 | ‘ What kind of people stopped to give you rides ? ’ 'Queers. ’ 'What ? ’ 'Queers usually stopped , ’ Ben says . |
| 20 | Jean held up her hand to it and when it made a bright white spot on her palm , she closed her fingers over it and pretended to give it into Donald 's hand , like a delicacy . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | The monsters tried to give me food but I did n't care about eating . |
| 23 | He was standing there with Mrs Kasmin as she tried to give him tea . |
| 24 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 25 | She tried to give him to kiss of life and heart massage but he was already dead . |
| 26 | The ship 's doctor tried to give them the kiss of life but they could not be revived . |
| 27 | Ms Brigitte Nielsen , the augmented embonpoint , ‘ belted ’ a ‘ fan ’ who tried to give her a ‘ kiss ’ ; |
| 28 | Changez , being at heart a traditional Muslim , explained the teachings of the Koran on this subject to her , and then , when words were not sufficient to convince her , he tried to give her a whack . |
| 29 | I tried to give her the kiss of life . |
| 30 | He dismissed the question as so much supposition , but when he tried to give her a reassuring hug she wriggled free and went out on to the balcony to join the others . |