Example sentences of "i [vb past] give [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to give him a lead . |
| 2 | I got to give you the cello . |
| 3 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 4 | I tried to give her the kiss of life . |
| 5 | Last week in my talk I tried to give you an introduction to the subject we call art . |
| 6 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 7 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 8 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 9 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 10 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
| 11 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 12 | Because there was so little going on with the band I arranged to give myself a bit of a holiday . |
| 13 | Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing ! |
| 14 | It happened during the final couple of years of my marriage when , tired of the humiliation my husband 's affairs imposed on me , I decided to give him a taste of his own medicine . |
| 15 | By this time Desmond had nearly stopped on the flarepath and I decided to give him a wide berth . |
| 16 | So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience , |
| 17 | I decided to give him the name of ‘ Man Friday ’ , because I first saw him on a Friday . |
| 18 | ‘ In true Hitchcock tradition , I always make one appearance in each series of Rumpole , but this time I decided to give myself a speaking part , ’ he says . |
| 19 | Saturday morning , and once again a fair and breezy day , so fair that I decided to give myself a holiday from writing , and go straight after breakfast to pick up the supplies I would need for the weekend . |
| 20 | So I decided to give it a miss that day . |
| 21 | ‘ It was then that I decided to give it a try . |
| 22 | I offered to give him a game or two if he needed the practice but , as he soon told me , snooker training is a lot more complicated than that nowadays . |
| 23 | I give them a , I did give them a good rinse afterwards though . |
| 24 | I said give you a cuddle some time . |
| 25 | I said give us the keys and said I 'll take the bloody car . |
| 26 | I had to give them the keys . |
| 27 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 28 | I had to give him a bloody week ! |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |