Example sentences of "[vb past] to give i " in BNC.
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| 1 | He promised to give me a silver coin every month for doing this . |
| 2 | As we ate , Dr Jaffery promised to give me a ring the following morning to confirm that the festival was going to be celebrated . |
| 3 | ‘ I expect it 's Vera — she promised to give me a recipe for salmon mousse . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The driver of a passenger lorry stopped to give me some bread and carrots . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | The monsters tried to give me food but I did n't care about eating . |
| 9 | At that meeting two of the Cabinet heavyweights , Willie Whitelaw and Quintin Hailsham , intervened to give me support . |
| 10 | And and he happened to give me . |
| 11 | Beryl sends her apologies — she forgot to give me your message . |
| 12 | She had but I forgot er , she forgot to give me erm , money from the money club . |
| 13 | My wife telephoned to give me the news which had been heard by our daughter listening to the radio . |
| 14 | ‘ My lord fitzAlan agreed to give me his escort from Gloucester . |
| 15 | And my pounding heart served to give me a feeling of impending doom . |
| 16 | In the following example , the head is the first five syllables : Bill called to give me those |
| 17 | She thought about that one for a second , then decided to give me the benefit of the doubt . |
| 18 | When my mum and dad discussed they decided to give me and my brother twenty five pound each and have |
| 19 | This is what my mother meant , thought Maggie , this is what she meant and meant to give me . |
| 20 | She said a troubadour needs only three things , an instrument , a horse , and a lady love , and the first she desired to give me , and the other two I must find for myself . |
| 21 | I 'm afraid I persuaded the woman I spoke to give me this address . |
| 22 | I was drug-free , like , so they had to give me them back . |
| 23 | It has a weird effect , so bad one day that they had to give me valium to take off my bandages because I could n't handle it any more . |
| 24 | They had to give me a brandy , I were in a right state me ! |
| 25 | No he just had to give me one |
| 26 | to get rid of the abscess , oh god it was painful , it really was , in fact I had it once , I had a load of penicillin , did n't finish the penicillin and it came back again and they had to give me a stronger drug then for five days |
| 27 | Dad and I went in and Mr Vulcan explained that he wished to give me the harmonium and that there was a clean bed upstairs if we wanted it . |
| 28 | ‘ If it is n't Miss Cornflower , the lady who refused to give me a lift . ’ |
| 29 | I could only speculate whether the industrial activity required to produce the clock radio and the telephone they wanted to give me , and all the ongoing activity to service those industries and their customers , would not cause more pollution , lead to more acid rain , and so destroy more trees than the one they planned to plant for me . |
| 30 | If Yamaha wanted to give me one of these I would n't object ! |