Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] give [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 2 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 6 | Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing ! |
| 7 | By this time Desmond had nearly stopped on the flarepath and I decided to give him a wide berth . |
| 8 | So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience , |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | I give them a , I did give them a good rinse afterwards though . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I had to give him a bloody week ! |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 18 | I intended to give him a further lesson on the facts of life , later . |
| 19 | " I wanted to give him a nice gravestone , " she said . |
| 20 | Choosing what to include took some time , though I wanted to give it an artistic flavour . ’ |
| 21 | But if they would work no more and no faster than the job required , they would work no slower and no less : nobody had to give them a special incentive to give of their best . |
| 22 | That wonderful love they had shared and which had given her the precious gift of a son . |
| 23 | Though I wish you 'd given him a different name . |
| 24 | Jesus , as the Alpha and Omega , the beginning and the end , Jesus , who came to give us the good news , news worth singing about . |
| 25 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 26 | Then , if she 'd given him a good time and he was a collaborator , he might not report her . |
| 27 | She was sure that at some point she 'd given someone the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing . |
| 28 | Cheered on by the huge German crowd , who 'd given him a two-minute standing ovation when his record was read out during the knock-up , Becker was devastating in the first set . |
| 29 | Hesitating , she risked giving him a haunted look . |
| 30 | You kept giving him a hundred . |