Example sentences of "to give me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the nurses has been coming in to give me injections every day . |
| 2 | On the last day of that term , my final-year class all came up to my office to give me a ‘ thank-you ’ present . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'll just have to give me time , ’ she says . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're just in time to give me a hand . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You 're just in time to give me a hand . ’ |
| 6 | But it was typical of Pound 's kindness , even to a potential enemy or rival , that he should have so persisted in trying to give me the right contacts . |
| 7 | I could only speculate whether the industrial activity required to produce the clock radio and the telephone they wanted to give me , and all the ongoing activity to service those industries and their customers , would not cause more pollution , lead to more acid rain , and so destroy more trees than the one they planned to plant for me . |
| 8 | I recently had a liver transplant at Addenbrooke 's Hospital and still feel guilty that inevitably the decision was made to give me a liver rather than someone else whose life expectancy may have been marginally longer . |
| 9 | ‘ I hope and pray that the decision to give me the Nobel Peace Prize will encourage all those who pursue the cause of peace to do so in a renewed spirit of optimism and strength . ’ |
| 10 | But it was not enough to give me a complex , not as it would have been in America . |
| 11 | I had no one left to give me advice ’ . |
| 12 | In his usual way , as soon as the film started , George begin to give me a run down on the technical assets I might otherwise be missing . |
| 13 | ‘ Planned it for years to give me pleasure in my retirement and now it 's just getting into a mess . |
| 14 | ‘ True , ’ said Phoebe , ‘ but I 'd probably get to be a Union Official immediately , owing to the lack of competition in the Bayswater Chapel , and then Graham would have to give me endless paid hours off to attend to Union Business . ’ |
| 15 | This is what my mother meant , thought Maggie , this is what she meant and meant to give me . |
| 16 | Explaining his decision , he originally felt that he ‘ would be very unlikely ever to have available the full weight of a team and a manufacturer to give me what should be a reasonable opportunity ( to win the championship ) . ’ |
| 17 | That they were n't having to give me a testimonial , which I would be entitled to soon , and were making a profit on my sale . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | I wish I could see more magazines , to give me ideas and guidance . ’ |
| 20 | I 'd love a true professional to give me some tips , particularly on which brands are best . |
| 21 | In fact later on during the flight , when I 'd unravelled myself from this guy and was playing poker with some French people , I asked God to give me the sign then , in the hand I was about to get . |
| 22 | With my father agreeing to give me £2,000 , and adding , ‘ This is the third plane ticket I 've bought for that man ’ , I flew back to England and finished painting the house white , thanking God that I liked the art nouveau and Edwardian furniture David had been buying , because otherwise it could have been tricky , having received the letter and realising that it might actually be love , it might actually be something serious going on . |
| 23 | At that meeting two of the Cabinet heavyweights , Willie Whitelaw and Quintin Hailsham , intervened to give me support . |
| 24 | I suppose you 're going to give me one of those American colour tests next . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Just to look at Dana fully clothed was enough to give me an erection . |
| 27 | ‘ If you 'd like to give me ten pounds , ’ she added , quickly . |
| 28 | If the Ashford Castle Hotel now wish to give me a free suite in return for this publicity , I shall not demur . |
| 29 | However , if anyone were misguided enough to give me authority , I would certainly misuse it , so I prayed along with the rest . |
| 30 | What is certain is that the creative use of recorders was a general expectation : the saintly and amiable Ahmad Bu Aziza , asked to record an account of Zuwaya trading , refused to do so on the spot , but made an appointment for two days later ‘ to give me time to make the poem ’ . |