Example sentences of "[pers pn] never gave [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 And I 'm sure I never gave her any reason to be so high-and-mighty ! ’
2 I never gave him a chance to explain — to tell me his side of things .
3 True , I 'd had trouble with nightmares the two nights following the accident , but the medicine which Doctor Keylock brought sorted that out , and afterwards I never gave it a thought .
4 I never gave it a glance . ’
5 I , I , I 'm , I am absolutely mortified , because , I have to say I think that erm , I got in the car , I do n't have very far to drive from the N E C , erm , twenty minutes and I 'm home , but I go on the M 1 motorway and er , and I never gave it very much thought , and on Monday when I was told Dave , what had happened , erm , there but for the grace of God .
6 ‘ She would n't have shopped me ; and she never gave me the tape .
7 You never gave them keys to Madge .
8 You never gave me your number . ’
9 You never gave me yours , either .
10 You never gave me a receipt .
11 You never gave it a slightest thought .
12 Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’
13 I saw my mother once a day at dinner time and I saw my father three or four times a week , but they never gave me any love .
14 And they never gave them back .
15 They never gave us a chance with Stephen .
16 These were the kind of questions they never gave you in catechism .
17 He never gave her the chance .
18 Earthy type , she used to say , but it was all talk with him and he never gave her any trouble that she told me about . ’
19 ‘ He never once put his hand into his box all the years that I served him , ’ meaning he never gave me a gift of money , a bonus for service above and beyond the call of time .
20 ‘ I met a parson once that was good to me , but he never gave me any treacle tart , just a kind message of 'ope .
21 A London postman 's daughter whose grandparents lived next door contrasted the couple : ‘ oh she was a pet , but not him , he never gave us any love . ’
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