Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adv] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took vulgar public revenge on me by mocking in the pages of Madame Bovary a seal I had once given him as a token of love . |
| 2 | For one thing he would have to acknowledge that Sarah was not barren , so it must be his own fault she had n't given him children . |
| 3 | Who had seen enacted before him the last skirmish in the war which had now given him his own longed-for kingdom of Cyprus . |
| 4 | Good job they did n't give us more than seven and a half percent is n't it ? |
| 5 | We could n't sport the name of Dark or Phillips or Brown or Davies or any other Worcester paddler who went out to give their all but we thought we would have a go . |
| 6 | And to point out to her now that she did n't know the right thing to do when visiting people like the Kirkleys would be , in a way , against the advice she had just given her , although it was n't to do with talking ; more like behaviour and deportment or some such . |
| 7 | If you want our marriage to have any chance of success you 'd better give her the sack first thing on Monday morning ! ’ |
| 8 | It was biting , but she was censoring herself instinctively now , because Florian 's personality was truly one-dimensional , albeit in another way , and the only thing she had ever given him was the degree of tolerance his peculiar genius made his due . |
| 9 | No doubt he had just given something to Mrs Files . |
| 10 | And a call came over the radio that there was a problem with one of the pumps downstairs , so seeing I had nothing better to do at that time I went downstairs to give them a hand . |
| 11 | I was talking on Sue , I was saying if you 've got a client who did n't give you the convenient forty two pounds , but said you 'd got forty or thirty pounds to spend , the first thing you 've got to do is take off the two pounds policy fee , so you 're left in this case , with thirty eight pounds . |
| 12 | And this time it did n't give us two X it just gave us one times this one times that one . |