Example sentences of "[vb past] give i " in BNC.
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| 1 | He promised to give me a silver coin every month for doing this . |
| 2 | As we ate , Dr Jaffery promised to give me a ring the following morning to confirm that the festival was going to be celebrated . |
| 3 | ‘ I expect it 's Vera — she promised to give me a recipe for salmon mousse . |
| 4 | From time to time I took in little details of his face : his small , neat ears round which the moonlight-blond locks curled ; the light golden stubble round his laughing mouth ; the rather dry , sensuous yet slightly cruel lips ; the perfect column of the neck and throat emerging from his open shirt , unbuttoned to give me — was it deliberate ? — a shadowy glimpse of a dark nipple in a hairless chest , the beautifully smooth breast of an ancient god . |
| 5 | The driver of a passenger lorry stopped to give me some bread and carrots . |
| 6 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 7 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 8 | The monsters tried to give me food but I did n't care about eating . |
| 9 | ‘ My suspicions were confirmed when Dr Kingdom stopped giving me material for Heather 's file . |
| 10 | Perhaps he thought that , and he 'd given me the slip . |
| 11 | They put in my real balance which was something like £7.50 — but they 'd given me their stamp . |
| 12 | I was very much his son and it was six or seven weeks before I learned that the self-confidence he 'd given me , genetically and by example , to other people was mere boasting . |
| 13 | I thought someone 'd given me a TV set — I was so excited , I ripped the box open and this girl went , ‘ Can I have your autograph ? ’ |
| 14 | Spookily enough , I had come full circle : I was back working for Alan Lewis , the man who 'd given me my first music press job — as his secretary at Sounds , back in ( gulp ) 1977 . |
| 15 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 16 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 17 | Roger I 'd 've given it you a lot quicker if you 'd given me a list of jobs to work on . |
| 18 | ‘ Did Capron ask you straight whether you 'd given me any help ? ’ |
| 19 | I rang the number she 'd given me and she answered almost at once — whether she was up and reading , or whether the phone was beside her bed I did n't know . |
| 20 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 21 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ At the time , you remember , you 'd given me very little information to go on . |
| 23 | It was as if I owed him financially for everything he 'd given me , he 'd drawn up a sort of balance sheet , setting adoption against the chances he 'd given me ; because he 'd taken me on I owed him . |
| 24 | It was as if I owed him financially for everything he 'd given me , he 'd drawn up a sort of balance sheet , setting adoption against the chances he 'd given me ; because he 'd taken me on I owed him . |
| 25 | ‘ Only one , ’ said Ken , ‘ and that was n't because I forgot it : it was because they 'd given me bad directions . ’ |
| 26 | She 'd given me a shot to kill the pain and it was making me drowsy . |
| 27 | I mean , he 'd given me experiences I could never have hoped for . |
| 28 | It would n't have surprised me if you 'd given me the boot there and then . |
| 29 | ‘ I rang him — he 'd given me a list of all the Grands Prix contact numbers — but when he came to my hotel the next morning it was of his own accord . ’ |
| 30 | Erm on , on yours in fact I could n't check sequence erm on the programme that you 'd given me because I did n't , I , I had know way of telling whether we did get a clash . |