Example sentences of "[vb past] give i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver of a passenger lorry stopped to give me some bread and carrots . |
| 2 | ‘ Did Capron ask you straight whether you 'd given me any help ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Only one , ’ said Ken , ‘ and that was n't because I forgot it : it was because they 'd given me bad directions . ’ |
| 4 | Erm but he 'd given me this number , Glen about Portakabins . |
| 5 | So I went in and told them and they 'd given me wrong sack . |
| 6 | She started giving me quizzical looks . |
| 7 | Then the young assistant started giving me funny looks , as if there was something up and I should know there was something up . |
| 8 | ‘ As from today ’ , he writes in his resignation letter , ’ I tear off the mask of studied ambiguity that your organization did give me twelve years ago . |
| 9 | I 'm afraid I persuaded the woman I spoke to give me this address . |
| 10 | One who had given me invaluable help in tracking down German sources and participants was a sixty-year-old cultural attaché at the German Embassy by the name of Herbert Sulzbach . |
| 11 | On the day the telegram arrived from Southern Ferries , a close friend who had given me much encouragement now began to question my continuing any further . |
| 12 | But when we arrived home , we found the stranger had given me two pound notes as well as the coin . |
| 13 | The doctors had given me strict orders to keep warm while I was recuperating and there was no heating at all in the house , ’ said Mrs Easby . |
| 14 | She had given me this book , Period , and she says that how you feel about your first period affects you all your life , it affects your self-image , so it 's very important . |
| 15 | During that journey I had only travelled among the Adoimara , and at Bilen they had given me alarming accounts of the ferocity of the Asaimara in Bahdu . |
| 16 | Lucy says ’ when George died I phoned my agent and said give me three weeks off to get over the physical shock . |
| 17 | Well he said give I twenty pound |
| 18 | ‘ Aprilia wanted to give me two factory bikes and though they wanted me to bring a sponsor with me , they put my mind at ease about everything . |