Example sentences of "i [verb] give him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to give him a lead . |
| 2 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 3 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 4 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 5 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 6 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
| 7 | Boy , am I going to give him a piece of my mind when I see him . |
| 8 | Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing ! |
| 9 | It happened during the final couple of years of my marriage when , tired of the humiliation my husband 's affairs imposed on me , I decided to give him a taste of his own medicine . |
| 10 | By this time Desmond had nearly stopped on the flarepath and I decided to give him a wide berth . |
| 11 | So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience , |
| 12 | I decided to give him the name of ‘ Man Friday ’ , because I first saw him on a Friday . |
| 13 | I offered to give him a game or two if he needed the practice but , as he soon told me , snooker training is a lot more complicated than that nowadays . |
| 14 | Well , six fifty I got if for like , I try give him a six hundred and he ummed and ahhed and then he said well he said well I 'll take the six hundred he said , can you manage the hundred quid over the next five or six weeks ? |
| 15 | I had to give him a bloody week ! |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |
| 18 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 19 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 20 | I 've given him a couple of garters for his socks . |
| 21 | I 've given him the newspaper to read — I thought it might take his mind off things . ’ |
| 22 | I 've given him an anti-tetanus injection and told him not to shave over those scratches for the next few days . ’ |
| 23 | yes , so I 've giving him a , a cloth to go and rub it with |
| 24 | I have to give him a name . |
| 25 | ‘ I have given him no money . |
| 26 | I intended to give him a further lesson on the facts of life , later . |
| 27 | " I wanted to give him a nice gravestone , " she said . |