Example sentences of "[verb] to give me " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Are you telling me that — he wants to give me " |
| 2 | He wants to give me two years , but the board only want to give me one . |
| 3 | It 's my party cos I 'm gon na stand at the door and everybody has to give me a big french kiss when they come in the door ! |
| 4 | He promised to give me a silver coin every month for doing this . |
| 5 | As we ate , Dr Jaffery promised to give me a ring the following morning to confirm that the festival was going to be celebrated . |
| 6 | ‘ I expect it 's Vera — she promised to give me a recipe for salmon mousse . |
| 7 | From time to time I took in little details of his face : his small , neat ears round which the moonlight-blond locks curled ; the light golden stubble round his laughing mouth ; the rather dry , sensuous yet slightly cruel lips ; the perfect column of the neck and throat emerging from his open shirt , unbuttoned to give me — was it deliberate ? — a shadowy glimpse of a dark nipple in a hairless chest , the beautifully smooth breast of an ancient god . |
| 8 | The driver of a passenger lorry stopped to give me some bread and carrots . |
| 9 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 10 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 11 | The monsters tried to give me food but I did n't care about eating . |
| 12 | ‘ If you want to give me a ‘ producer ’ , ’ I went on , ‘ then give me one . |
| 13 | A clothing company ( Petrocelli Suits ) want to give me $2000 in clothes . |
| 14 | You want to give me a hand with this ? ’ |
| 15 | Why do people always want to give me maternal advice ? |
| 16 | People are joining us all the time , so I 'm very briefly er just in a word or two , going to go over the subjects , and then if you want to give me a ring , please do so . |
| 17 | Okay want to give me a call after the news we 've got erm a little music after the news and then if you want to ring you can do that now erm about anything you like . |
| 18 | He wants to give me two years , but the board only want to give me one . |
| 19 | Want to give me |
| 20 | I recently had a liver transplant at Addenbrooke 's Hospital and still feel guilty that inevitably the decision was made to give me a liver rather than someone else whose life expectancy may have been marginally longer . |
| 21 | ‘ When th 've had th'drink and polished off those breakfast dishes , Mrs Salt says to give me a hand . ’ |
| 22 | At that meeting two of the Cabinet heavyweights , Willie Whitelaw and Quintin Hailsham , intervened to give me support . |
| 23 | But , even so , pride would not allow Fabia to kowtow to anyone , so that it was in the coolest of tones , her expression wooden and unyielding , that she opened her mouth and asked him bluntly , ‘ Are you prepared to give me an interview or not ? ’ |
| 24 | But anyway I gave , it 's fifty P I gave the lass who was selling it a pound you see and she said here you are waiting to give me my change , I said no , no and she said and I said to her I said you know you need it more than I do and she she got tears in her eyes and I I thought I mean I I do n't know if I can articulate this properly . |
| 25 | I suppose you 're going to give me one of those American colour tests next . |
| 26 | ‘ Now who 's going to give me half-a-crown — go on then two bob — what 's the matter with you all — alright then one and six ! |
| 27 | At Heathrow Wendy Hoyte was being met by her husband Les and they were going to give me a lift back into London . |
| 28 | And I honestly think that if you are going to give me that much , it 's probably easier for you to do it once a month . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And when , ’ demanded the Countess of Donnington of her daughter , ‘ are you going to give me a date ? |
| 30 | " Are you going to give me something or not ? |