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 . |