Example sentences of "when [pers pn] gave [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And then when I gave you the minimum premium er it was like right okay well that 's , that 's the easy way out is n't it , twenty quid a month , okay I might do something for twenty quid because I was n't committed and that 's what exploration of needs is all about and it 's , it 's so easy for me to sit and say yeah that 's what you need to do but putting myself in your shoes , you know , a few years ago
2 When she gave him the second half of S. Kettering 's rent , he put it in his pocket without counting it .
3 We listened to the hon. Member for Derby , South when she gave us the present status of Beckett 's laws — a pledge to increase pensions and child benefit , to which the new manufacturing package has been added .
4 FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo .
5 Scientists did not help matters when they gave it the generic name Oreamnos , meaning ‘ mountain lamb ’ .
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