Example sentences of "[vb past] give [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He promised to give me a silver coin every month for doing this . |
| 2 | As we ate , Dr Jaffery promised to give me a ring the following morning to confirm that the festival was going to be celebrated . |
| 3 | ‘ I expect it 's Vera — she promised to give me a recipe for salmon mousse . |
| 4 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 12 | The ship 's doctor tried to give them the kiss of life but they could not be revived . |
| 13 | Ms Brigitte Nielsen , the augmented embonpoint , ‘ belted ’ a ‘ fan ’ who tried to give her a ‘ kiss ’ ; |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Preston stumbled out of bed and tried to give her a hug , but she fought him off as if it was an attack . |
| 17 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 18 | Wycliffe wanted her to talk , not merely to answer questions , and he tried to give her a new lead . |
| 19 | He shifted uncomfortably and tried to give her a reassuring grin . |
| 20 | The man tried to give her a lift and would n't take no for an answer . |
| 21 | I tried to give her the kiss of life . |
| 22 | And then he tried to give us the slip and run off . |
| 23 | Last week in my talk I tried to give you an introduction to the subject we call art . |
| 24 | Other cottagers the teacher from Glasgow visited gave him a proof of their kindness ; they presented him with a large basin of milk : he took a drink of it , and would have left the remainder , but they signalled to him to drink it all , and the old man stood opposite the door to prevent his getting away till he was obliged , in answer to Gaelic gesticulations , to drink all the milk that was in the basin . |
| 25 | Somewhere and somehow she 'd given them the slip , shinned down the mat of Virginia creeper in the darkness and scuttled across the lawn to hide . |
| 26 | But next to the Dance Hall if we 'd given them the licence to ha turn the cinema into a Dance Hall , there was this little old boy who lived just the other side of the road , in an old cottage , and he was over eighty . |
| 27 | They were determined to confront the English Heritage inspector , but it soon became clear he 'd given them the slip . |
| 28 | I thought someone 'd given me a TV set — I was so excited , I ripped the box open and this girl went , ‘ Can I have your autograph ? ’ |
| 29 | Roger I 'd 've given it you a lot quicker if you 'd given me a list of jobs to work on . |
| 30 | She 'd given me a shot to kill the pain and it was making me drowsy . |