Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew I could win and I gave everything I could . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I knew I could win and I gave everything I could . ’ |
| 3 | Erm I do n't know if I gave you , and if I did n't I need to , the things that I 've called recordings logs , that are different than meeting logs . |
| 4 | What would Fen say if she gave him a truthful answer , told him that Hugh had done her a good turn , jilted her before she could make the most dreadful mistake of her life ? |
| 5 | I already had permission to search all the surrounding fields , so I waited until the field was harvested before I gave it a thorough going over with my detector . |
| 6 | They must not be forgotten for they gave their lives in defence of values which are under more bitter attack now all over the world than ever before . ’ |
| 7 | He looked very doubtful when I asked certain questions and laughed me to scorn when I gave my verdict . |
| 8 | QUAKERS manager Ray Hankin revealed that he gave his players ‘ a bit of a roasting ’ after their fighting 1–0 win at Valley Parade . |
| 9 | She says that they gave them every assistance possible . |
| 10 | He was ‘ permitted to put in a long day 's work for his Master , and it can be truly said that he gave his best ’ . |
| 11 | Instead of a telling-off , with time to put things right , TDC found itself under a much more strict court order with which it could not negotiate and which gave it little flexibility . |
| 12 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 13 | I had figures which actually showed what people were watching what they would do if you gave them five to seven more hours of spare time a week , all the things they would like to learn about that they have n't already learned about . |
| 14 | ‘ Imagine how much more good you could do if you gave your whole life to teaching ! ’ |
| 15 | What would you do if I gave you the jade ? |
| 16 | Do you think if I , do you think if I gave him a fright , s see the , time he says he 's going off to his granny 's and I say away you go , and my mam says she 's not taking him . |
| 17 | Despite her eccentricity and the fact that they could n't help laughing at her , the Girls would readily acknowledge that she gave them as much , if not more , affection than they had received from their own parents . |
| 18 | But nobody attacked him for his information about France ; which shows that he gave none . |
| 19 | Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring . |
| 20 | His eyes opened and he gave me a weak smile . |
| 21 | Legend has it that the mandarin was so grateful to Earl Grey for services rendered that he gave him his secret tea recipe , to keep mind , body and spirit together in perfect harmony . |
| 22 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
| 23 | I can only hope that we gave her sufficient help and support when the problems came along . |
| 24 | Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes . |
| 25 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |
| 26 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 27 | Just tell him what we want him to give us , you know if he gave us the advance nod on something then we could either you know deal it exclusive or we 'll put it all round , you know , whichever they prefer . |
| 28 | She has got in ( and out of ) problems with drugs , alcohol and a quasi-religious cult : ’ I was brainwashed and I gave them an enormous amount of money , ’ she says with a shrug . |
| 29 | He must have liked the sound it made because he gave it another couple for luck ; my courage rising , too , I gave it two more . |
| 30 | I guess that it gave her a sense of independence and allowed her personality , which was fairly dominant , to develop . |