Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] i give " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are n't you going to wait for me to give you a lift ? ’ |
| 2 | And if you start to talk about me giving up and coming home with you , it ends right there . ’ |
| 3 | And those New England mountains seemed to me to give evidence of a human success so meagre and transitory as to be more desperate than the desert . ’ |
| 4 | In point of fact the reverse ruled : I was constantly having chits thrust at me giving me a blow-by-blow account of " Charlie 's " state of health , but I was never made aware of the seriousness of Eddie 's wound , and somehow I did not know until I visited him in hospital later that morning . |
| 5 | He watched me intently , eyes narrowed against the sun which struck into this side of the courtyard , waiting for me to give a reasonable answer , which was foolish of him . |
| 6 | Respectfully waiting for me to give my orders . |
| 7 | but now they 're all set up and I 'm left alone and the children , three of them , have n't got time to look after me to give me what I , what I need and especially one in the truth , that one is less getting in touch with me than the ones that told me the truth , boys ring me , twice , three times a week , Julia rings every , every night , but Ted rings twice or three times a week , three times I could go , the one |
| 8 | Moods , bad moods and going to I gave my husband a terrible time ! |
| 9 | I 've been finding that normally I can get up early in the morning , give Heather a ring or if she 's staying with me give her a shout , you know for her work . |
| 10 | The evolutionary story , to the extent that it can now be understood ( and to the much more modest extent to which I understand it myself ) seems to me to give some support to the view that in this respect the historical story means very much what it seems to mean . |
| 11 | I think a lot of the big trouble which was to happen started with me giving Changez Harold Robbins to read , because it stimulated Changez in a way that Conan Doyle never did . |
| 12 | If the owner could write to me giving details of the camera case , I will gladly return it to him ( her ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Some of the things said about me give the impression that I am quite mad . |
| 14 | I thought that his appearance meant he had really been suffering very much , longing for me to give up my work , and had only refrained from asking me to do so out of respect for my ‘ rights ’ . |