Example sentences of "i give [pers pn] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Could I give you a better pledge ? ’
2 ‘ Did I give you a good run for your money ?
3 I do n't , cos it ai n't polite with strangers , but I give her a real nice smile instead .
4 I give them a hot mash too , as well as letting them scratch about here , we cook up all the scraps in the kitchen .
5 And er I so so I brought her and her three friends that she 'd run , chummed about with them and I give them a good talking to for about an hour .
6 The only way people will trust me is if I give them a signed piece of paper with my address on . ’
7 A minute later I give him a smaller brown one back .
8 I give it a grander title : it is the virtue of political integrity .
9 The penis stirs close to me , and I give it a wet nose .
10 come come I give you a nice kiss .
11 I give you , I give you a nice kiss
12 I give you a good example of that , erm , well not how easy it is , not on that , but how easy it is to get money without having the money , okay , Tony wants that , the computer
13 I give you a hundred back
14 I give you a little bit of warning .
15 Do you think you can manage the walk back to Three Colt Street , if I give you a helping hand ? ’
16 I give you a third of the buy-price of the Degas . ’
17 I said to them it was placing the team and the ARFU in a terrible situation and I gave them a 5.30 pm deadline otherwise the tour was off .
18 I gave them a bogus address but they did n't check it out .
19 I gave them a three-hour lecture on the basic principles of stochastics , he said .
20 Well , in my book nothing comes before football and so I gave them a simple ultimatum : ‘ Make your choice .
21 There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth .
22 I gave them a three-minute start then Bogartishly gunned my heap .
23 I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money .
24 I gave them a good show , with my writhings and moanings .
25 Well he said on that tape , I gave them a fat cheque of six thousand pounds .
26 I gave her a gruesome murder to deal with … homicide is new territory for women — the need for capture and revenge is largely masculine . ’
27 I gave her a nasty smile and left it .
28 I gave her a deep old-fashioned bow , a legacy of the East European courtesies in which I had been raised .
29 Here , ’ I gave her a printed business card , the one with my home telephone number on it .
30 Once Anne had accepted the fact that I was n't gon na work in the foreseeable future , and it was her choice that we stay , cos I gave her a clear choice , it was either move away where I could get work , or stay and suffer the wages of the dole like you know .
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