Example sentences of "i [verb] give him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to give him a lead . |
| 2 | I got to give him to you hold it |
| 3 | Camilla : I vow to give him up |
| 4 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 5 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 6 | He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already . |
| 7 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
| 8 | Whenever I smiled , he smiled back happily as if I 'd given him something . |
| 9 | He stopped bothering me , I 'd given him something more important to worry about . |
| 10 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 11 | He was more modest than I 'd given him credit for . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | that 's right , and he gets some unemployment money and I take ten pounds a week off him , for his food , I mean , it 's not enough but it 'll do , you know and then in dribs and drabs begrudgingly from that forty over the week once he starts to run out of money cos he 's paid once a fortnight I begin to give him his karate money and here 's two pounds fifty to go to the pub with Neil , you know , little bits |
| 14 | Oh I forgot to give him them . |
| 15 | Boy , am I going to give him a piece of my mind when I see him . |
| 16 | Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing ! |
| 17 | I decided to give him the name of ‘ Man Friday ’ , because I first saw him on a Friday . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When I thought five minutes were up I decided to give him another five . |
| 20 | By this time Desmond had nearly stopped on the flarepath and I decided to give him a wide berth . |
| 21 | So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience , |
| 22 | ‘ He was n't moving so I started to give him mouth to mouth . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well , six fifty I got if for like , I try give him a six hundred and he ummed and ahhed and then he said well he said well I 'll take the six hundred he said , can you manage the hundred quid over the next five or six weeks ? |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Also , I had to give him news . |
| 27 | I had to give him his paper and his |
| 28 | I had to give him a bloody week ! |
| 29 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |
| 30 | When the man eventually got home that day he told the assembled villagers of our meeting , and my warning , and said that after he had watched me go round a bend in the road a hundred yards away he started to light the cigarette I had given him . |