Example sentences of "i gave [pron] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I was n't sure , but I gave them a phone number which I knew to be Nassim 's office above a leather warehouse in Brick Lane . |
| 2 | In a ghost town , silent and deserted as the Marie Celeste , I gave myself a history lesson . |
| 3 | When she was ninety , I gave her a surprise birthday party in a pub near here , on top of a hill . ’ |
| 4 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 5 | ‘ I gave him a jam sandwich just before you arrived . |
| 6 | Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom . |
| 7 | I gave him a pound coin and promised him another if he did his stuff and I walked over to Mrs Newton 's front door . |
| 8 | He said of course he 'd do it if I gave him the phone number of the hospital . |
| 9 | I gave my every waking hour to that club unless I was doing something else . |
| 10 | His face was infuriatingly bland as he answered , ‘ Did n't you tell me that night when I gave you a lift home that your life fairly buzzed with — shall we say — events ? ’ |
| 11 | I gave you a riding lesson , did n't I ? |
| 12 | So I gave you a topic sport or a hobby or an interest that you had and you produced a thought pattern for that just as we 'd done in the practice one with the subject of water , but then we moved on a stage further to get what are called a structured thought pattern . |