Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to give [pers pn] [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 | Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing ! |
| 4 | By this time Desmond had nearly stopped on the flarepath and I decided to give him a wide berth . |
| 5 | So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience , |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I had to give him a bloody week ! |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | I intended to give him a further lesson on the facts of life , later . |
| 10 | " I wanted to give him a nice gravestone , " she said . |
| 11 | Choosing what to include took some time , though I wanted to give it an artistic flavour . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Jesus , as the Alpha and Omega , the beginning and the end , Jesus , who came to give us the good news , news worth singing about . |
| 14 | I spoke to the mayor and we decided to give them a proper Christian burial in the village cemetery . |
| 15 | Luckily she appeared so insignificant with all the bags that no one bothered to give her a second glance . |
| 16 | to get rid of the abscess , oh god it was painful , it really was , in fact I had it once , I had a load of penicillin , did n't finish the penicillin and it came back again and they had to give me a stronger drug then for five days |
| 17 | Wycliffe wanted her to talk , not merely to answer questions , and he tried to give her a new lead . |
| 18 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 19 | He dismissed the question as so much supposition , but when he tried to give her a reassuring hug she wriggled free and went out on to the balcony to join the others . |
| 20 | He meant to give her an emphatic no , but the word was never uttered . |
| 21 | When he opened it moths flew out and he had to give it a good clean to get rid of the cobwebs and years of dust that had settled inside . |
| 22 | For several years he has been a helper , and having decided to return to Birmingham where he had a distinguished career as a teacher of English , he resolved to give us the greater part of the library , collected over many years by himself and his late wife . |
| 23 | Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation . |
| 24 | He wanted to give it a space-age look so , apparently , he went to one of the companies here which specialises in metal research for NASA . ’ |