Example sentences of "on the [noun sg] and gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At four o'clock , nearly an hour before sunrise , the first blackbird began to sing and Thorfinn moved from light sleep to full awareness a moment before Klakkr son of Bathrik , his body-servant for many years , touched him on the shoulder and gave him the sentry 's report : no movement from the enemy in the wood . |
| 2 | Aside from her gold medal triumph at the Barcelona Olympics , Capriati said it has been a disappointing year on the court and gave herself a ‘ C ’ grade for her results . |
| 3 | He balanced the empty whisky glass on the window-sill and gave his nose a last wipe , pocketing his hanky . |
| 4 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
| 5 | ‘ Surely we must take that arrow out , ’ Perkin said , and put his hand on the shaft and gave it a tug . |
| 6 | Thanks also to the kind young woman with two young children who helped me on the train and gave me an orange drink . |
| 7 | I wrote some letters on the train and gave them to my … servant to post . |
| 8 | On a celebrated occasion in Wales a county court judge sitting in a civil case in Bridgend had not completed the case when the train was due to leave , so he continued it on the train and gave his final judgement in the station-master 's office at Llantrisant . |