Example sentences of "she give [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did she give you a hard time ? ’ |
| 2 | Well , there was a silly ole cow workin' in the office an' when I went in there she give me a dirty look an' told me ter take a seat . |
| 3 | Is she giving them a hard time ? |
| 4 | Is she giving them a hard time ? |
| 5 | She gives him a tight smile and wrinkles her nose . |
| 6 | She gives him a filthy look . |
| 7 | a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent . |
| 8 | She gives me a little smile and I feel a bit better . |
| 9 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 10 | I would n't say she gives me an ecstatic welcome . |
| 11 | ‘ The wave is my lover and she gives me the ultimate orgasm . ’ |
| 12 | She gives her an energetic push , backwards , into the sitting-room . |
| 13 | It 's not only in the dialogue that Harper Lee expresses the tension between the blacks and whites , but all through the book in her description of where people live , where they work , the churches they go to and her detailed description of the court room and how the black community sit on the balcony above , away from the whites , she gives us a vivid idea of the way life was in the 1930 's and sets the scene well . |
| 14 | She 's going she 's looking at you and you go , come here , you take a step further and she gives you a dirty look and then she waits until you 're that close and then she jumps ! |
| 15 | She gives you a better ground , ground cover |
| 16 | She was polite , she gave me a small box of chocolates with a thank-you card and kissed me and shook my hand when she came for a meal on Sunday . |
| 17 | She gave me a great , gummy grin which almost split her face in two . |
| 18 | Mrs Webster was very understanding about my wanting to team up with Wendy , which was how I put it to her ; and when I left she gave me a Victorian glass inkwell and a brown ironstone plate , because I ‘ liked old things ’ . |
| 19 | She gave me a long piercing inspection . |
| 20 | Before I left , she gave me a long talk on the re-wiring of her flat and asked if we have old-fashioned fuse-boxes . |
| 21 | She gave me a long , disdainful , disappointed look and then out of the charity of her heart , graciously excused me thus : |
| 22 | She gave me a long , loving look . |
| 23 | She gave me a long discourse regarding the horrors of the Middle Ages , concluding by saying , ‘ Then was much misery in Budapest . |
| 24 | She gave me a sharp look . |
| 25 | She gave me a weak smile and said : ‘ I might as well go to bed . |
| 26 | She gave me a weak smile and a fluttery little wave . |
| 27 | When she saw me , she gave me a haughty stare and carried on meowing . |
| 28 | One is she 's very interested in the occult , erm , she actually practices tarot card readings , and what she calls the crystal oracle , and she gave me a brief explanation , which is throwing a load of rocks up a cloth er , but I 'm not going to push me |
| 29 | She gave me a quick look , softened by a little smile . |
| 30 | I intended to ask the Baronessa Dulcibene why she had come to pay her last respects to this mysterious Englishman but she gave me a glassy look of non-recognition and moved rapidly away with her companion . |