Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] she gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a couple of minutes she gave in to another uncharacteristic fit of temper . |
| 2 | Despite receiving a lot of help she gave up looking after the child , asking her mother-in-law to do so with increasing frequency . |
| 3 | He said it only because he had forgotten the name she had told him , but the delicious little gurgle of laughter she gave coincided so precisely with another crackle of thunder that it seemed suddenly apt . |
| 4 | The sort of room you might show visitors round , and at the thought of a stream of visitors politely filing in while she was still in bed she gave a little grin . |
| 5 | My mother laughed at this , scornfully ; but in fact she gave us Christmas and birthday presents of clothes and shoes , and the record player came into the house in this way , as my eleventh birthday present . |
| 6 | She 's been married , got two kids — how on earth she gave birth to those two children , is beyond me , how on earth she made it is beyond me . |
| 7 | about it and I did n't see her for weekend she gave me her phone number , Saturday morning I gave her a bell , said I would be walking the dog if you want to join me |
| 8 | When he turned his head to look at Turakina she gave a gasp of annoyance and let go of the half-plaited queue . |