Example sentences of "[pers pn] gives me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E gives me enough embarrassment as it is by what 'e gets up to . |
| 2 | Marie helps me with my money , and every week she gives me some so I can buy plants and stuff for my room . |
| 3 | She gives me a little smile and I feel a bit better . |
| 4 | ‘ The wave is my lover and she gives me the ultimate orgasm . ’ |
| 5 | All he could say was that it had to be called a great and profound change , and that it had happened , ‘ I have a feeling of being at home when I am with her , as though she gives me my own hearth , a feeling that our lives are interwoven . ’ |
| 6 | Because I am 84 and live alone , she also pops in every morning and evening to ensure I am all right , and she gives me a bath once a week . |
| 7 | So I see her on leaves , and she gives me every so often a new MCC tie ! ’ |
| 8 | I went to me doctor as well , but if I go to that doctor with a swollen ankle or somethin' , she gives me antibiotics , if it 's me back , it 's antibiotics , if it 's a cold , antibiotics . |
| 9 | She gives me antibiotics for my heroin addiction . |
| 10 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 11 | She gives me flowers , but she loves me not . |
| 12 | As I had requested , I had Pauline for massage ; I always find she gives me the best massage I have anywhere in the world . |
| 13 | The smile she gives me is really sweet . |
| 14 | She has n't , of course , but she gives me the landlord 's name . |
| 15 | We can both feel the strain plucking at the atmosphere , so when I say I 'll return the keys to the landlord she gives me his address to get me out of the way . |
| 16 | I would n't say she gives me an ecstatic welcome . |
| 17 | She gives me a valium . |
| 18 | She gives me her key-ring to look at ; a plastic heart in which a photo of her husband and two children are encased . |
| 19 | And if she gives me any of her pernickety , finicky quips I 'll throw it over her . |
| 20 | She gives me time to read the label on the front cover Government Commission Press Department , 1974 — then opens it and slowly turns the pages , so that I can see it is a cuttings book , in which the Commission 's Press Officer has pasted the results of his labours , the stories inspired by all his briefings , handouts and leaks . |
| 21 | She gives me a lot of stick for it . |
| 22 | ‘ She gives me confidence a sharp mind , a safe pair of hands and a lovely sense of humour , ’ said Peter Mandelson . |
| 23 | Looking after her gives me something to do . ’ |
| 24 | He gives me what the French call a curious regard and asks me to explain myself . |
| 25 | He 's always pleased to see me and sometimes he gives me food and stuff . |
| 26 | At Christmas I give Otley my turkey and he gives me his Brussels sprouts . |
| 27 | ‘ My dad , he gives me money . ’ |
| 28 | He does n't ever touch a canvas with paint , but he gives me ideas . |
| 29 | He gives me a completely guileless smile . |
| 30 | He does n't ever touch a canvas with paint , but he gives me ideas . |