Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] give [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling that she had given her due of politeness to the curate , the due exacted by her mother and elder sister , she pattered onto Maurice , and , after having a bit of a poke round , shot across the connecting gangplank onto Grace . |
| 2 | She noted the breadth of his shoulders , the long legs and dark good looks , and decided Kate had better taste than she 'd given her credit for . |
| 3 | Edward Gillespie says that they wanted to give their racegoers something extra and more excitement … and when times are hard this is one way of getting more owners into the sport |
| 4 | The record of this parliament is incomplete , but the recollection of contemporaries seems unequivocal , and in later , more difficult , circumstances parliament was to be reminded more than once that it had given its assent to the war . |
| 5 | What had really confused everyone was the fact that Kemp always carried a hip-flask of brandy in the car 's glove compartment , and that he had given his wife — trapped by the legs beside him — several sips from this flask before the ambulance arrived ; and had even drunk from it himself ! |
| 6 | Captain Duro was anxious to start the return voyage as soon as possible in order to avoid the equinoctial gales , and now that he had given his permission , Gerald saw no reason to delay his daughter 's departure further . |
| 7 | As a result of the meeting Devi Lal apparently believed he had the Prime Minister 's approval to reinstate his son , although Singh subsequently denied that he had given his approval to such a move . |
| 8 | He felt sorry for his opponent , whose close friend and helper had been taken to hospital during the race , so he decided to give his spirits a lift by allowing him to win , but did so without letting anyone else realise exactly what was happening . |
| 9 | ‘ I jumped out of my seat , my headphones flew off and I started giving her mouth-to-mouth . |
| 10 | If I had given my advice it would have been ignored . ’ |
| 11 | If you had to give your husband or family food that was irradiated , you 'd be concerned . |
| 12 | If they had given his note to her exactly as he had said … |
| 13 | Now he drew himself upwards and stepped back from her , and it seemed to give her space to breathe , for she drew air into her lungs and for the first time she spoke , almost whimpering now : ‘ I … |
| 14 | And I thought he were wonderful cos he kept giving me money you see . |
| 15 | But I decided to give my countryman a chance , not that I 'd moved four thousand miles to be shown around London by a fellow American , and a hick from the provinces to boot . |
| 16 | If he failed to come up with explanations to put everything right then , and then only , would he have to face the consequences himself , for it was clear now that she would have to leave — disengage herself from him , as Marc had so succinctly put it — but she had given her word and she would wait until the whole matter could be discussed openly . |
| 17 | But she 'd given her promise , albeit with great reluctance , not to confide the truth to her friend . |
| 18 | Then er on a Saturdays our slaughterhouse was , our slaughterhouse was still open up the street then and we used to perhaps kill twelve , fourteen pigs for private people , but they had to give their ration up , six months ' or twelve months ' ration up to have these pigs . |
| 19 | André was far too exuberant to be shattered by something like that , but it had given her ego a kick . |
| 20 | Not that our sort is given to bragging in any case , but it had given my dad — a branch manager for one of the High Street banks — a certain quiet satisfaction to be able to let his staff know that his son was ‘ going up ’ to Oxford . |
| 21 | Often , apprentice footballers refuse to sign professional forms seeing them , as one Midland youth put it , as ‘ bad risks ’ ; and young boxers would , in the pugilistic vernacular , ‘ swallow ’ before they had given their careers time to bloom — usually on the say-so of parents . |
| 22 | The jury heard about wealthy amusement arcade boss Vincent King 's past only after it had given its verdict . |
| 23 | I found the door unlocked as I had given my master the key before I left ; the light was poor but I could see nothing had been disturbed so lay down on the bed , pulling the curtains around me . |
| 24 | He made it sound as though she had given his sermon to the messenger boy . |
| 25 | When he had given his orders and they were alone he said : ‘ You were rough on her , Phyllis . ’ |
| 26 | There was also Alec , a prison officer from Wormwood Scrubs ( when he 'd given his address and next of kin on a previous camp everyone had thought he was kidding ) ; Ken , who to everyone 's delight turned up with a guitar ( were we really going to sit round a campfire singing ? ) ; and David , an aircraft engineer who after fifteen years in the Scouts could ‘ do wonderful things with ropes ’ . |
| 27 | When he spoke to give his name , address and date of birth his speech was slurred and indistinct . |
| 28 | His voice trailed as he recalled giving his name to the anonymous diplomat during his earlier call to the Iranian Embassy in Paris . |
| 29 | For he had given her gifts beyond dreaming . |
| 30 | Artemis helped her and they both instinctively began to hurry , lest Artemis 's father should return and find them still there , even though he had given his permission . |