Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] give [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , after returning home , in bed with his wife , the merchant taxes her about not having told him the monk had given her the money ; she claims that she thought the money the monk gave her was gift , and that she has already used it to buy clothing ; she will pay , she says , her debts to her husband in bed . |
| 2 | The ‘ Roman style ’ was not , of course , created by the Council of Trent though the Council did give it a partial façade of quasi-homophonic simplicity . |
| 3 | Did not tradition relate how Saint James had three times attempted to ascend Massis , and on the third occasion been told by an angel that it was forbidden , but that the angel had given him a plank of wood from the Ark , and there where he had received it was founded the monastery of Saint James ? |
| 4 | Werner jerked his hand away as though the keyboard had given him an electric shock . |
| 5 | Actually erm although councillor is quite correct that we 're providing a service , erm in some ways it would be nice if the government did give us the freedom to operate our business as we choose to do so . |
| 6 | It was on one of these occasions that Guy Gibson was ushered into " Cocky's ' presence and , just prior to his appearance , the AOC had given me a slip of paper with the names of about 20 pilots whom he asked me not to recruit — as a favour to him — which was his style . |
| 7 | The fact that she and Hugh happened to fit the bill seemed to give her every opportunity for finding out . |
| 8 | He says the man said give me the money . |
| 9 | The man tried to give her a lift and would n't take no for an answer . |
| 10 | But the experience had been short and isolated and the moonlight had given it a sufficient touch of unreality for me to be able to fire my machine gun at everything I saw without scruple . |
| 11 | Film and Filming magazine said the film had given everyone an insight into the thinking of Corman and Nicholson . |
| 12 | The receptionist at the hotel had given him a key to the front door and his mind was a chaotic mixture of emotions and thoughts as he walked past it towards the shore . |
| 13 | When a priest came to give her the Last Rites , she gazed on the crucifix that he held before her eyes and felt her illness leave her . |
| 14 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
| 15 | One minute you discovered you could do a falsetto , the next that there was a reason why a woman had given you a sweet . |
| 16 | He was not a big man — only about five feet seven inches tall — but his years as a coachsmith had given him a body that was all muscle with not an ounce of fat . |
| 17 | Finally , it should be noted , that even if the plaintiff manages to overcome the hurdle of proving a duty existed to give him the information , he must still establish causation . |
| 18 | A NURSE died after an anaesthetist failed to give her a drug to ease pressure on her heart , an inquest heard yesterday . |