Example sentences of "i [vb past] give he " 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 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
6 | Whenever I smiled , he smiled back happily as if I 'd given him something . |
7 | He stopped bothering me , I 'd given him something more important to worry about . |
8 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
9 | He was more modest than I 'd given him credit for . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Oh I forgot to give him them . |
12 | Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing ! |
13 | I decided to give him the name of ‘ Man Friday ’ , because I first saw him on a Friday . |
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 | When I thought five minutes were up I decided to give him another five . |
16 | By this time Desmond had nearly stopped on the flarepath and I decided to give him a wide berth . |
17 | So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience , |
18 | ‘ He was n't moving so I started to give him mouth to mouth . ’ |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . ’ |
21 | Also , I had to give him news . |
22 | I had to give him his paper and his |
23 | I had to give him a bloody week ! |
24 | 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 ! |
25 | 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 . |
26 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
27 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | It was true that I had given him life but I had not given him love . |
30 | Three sons I had given him , and still he did not love me as I was so desperate to be loved . |