Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was n't moving so I started to give him mouth to mouth . ’ |
| 2 | So I decided to give it a miss that day . |
| 3 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 4 | But once I 'd given them to him I never saw them again so I imagine he must have burnt them . |
| 5 | Like I had to give her some top priorities yesterday as she was n't going to be about . |
| 6 | When I thought five minutes were up I decided to give him another five . |
| 7 | And often we would lie together in the sun after a bathe , and kiss and caress each other , and it was a dear , familiar pleasure , associated in my mind and body with safety and mutual delight and no demands made ; his hands were wondering and tender , and his face when I opened my eyes to look at it had the extraordinary beauty it used to have when I had given him even this limited sensual happiness . |