Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] gave [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Red Cross warehouse , we were met by Stoyaeka who drove us to her house where she gave us a meal of soup , bread , stew and dumplings , all washed down with a very palatable local red wine . |
| 2 | Ever since then , whenever I left a job or anyone gave me a present , I was given more of the same . |
| 3 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 4 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 5 | ‘ So I gave him a clip across the back and told him ‘ No ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well he needed a refill so I gave him a hand to push his hand cart into Berkeley last night . |
| 7 | Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom . |
| 8 | He kept stealing Nigel 's food , so I gave him a bowl of his own every day . ’ |
| 9 | The militant , comprising four fields ( Kent , Scotland , South Wales and Yorkshire ) which consistently gave the strongest support to the strike call , although none gave it a majority at every ballot . |
| 10 | You were right , Bodo , saying to leave the matter alone — although you gave me a turn when you were so … so abrupt with the Sergeant . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She is n't important , never was important — except that she gave me a chance to get close to you again . ’ |
| 12 | And I thought er and er I had wee tablets that you gave me a while ago , Brusdeximit |
| 13 | She could have tried for goal , but Mike had an easier shot so she gave him a lightning , nearside , under-the-neck pass . |
| 14 | She wanted to wound him as he was wounding her so she gave him a charming smile and said , ‘ How did you feel , Fernando , when Maria Luisa slid into your bed at that hour ? ’ |
| 15 | Once she gave me a wink and she has even pinched my bum . ’ |
| 16 | Now you could say that was perhaps maintenance , but it 's all been cleaned , it 's been repointed , there are new lanterns , they 've done all the paintwork and they made such a beautiful job of it , it 's really almost for the craftsmanship and the care that we gave them a certificate for that as well . |
| 17 | We did n't want our poor prisoner to get wet , so we gave him a nice yellow raincoat , you see . |
| 18 | Room maids also suggested improving the honeymoon suite , so we gave them a project to look at suitable fabrics and rival hotel suites . |
| 19 | I think that day that they gave me a lift home . |
| 20 | ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . ) |
| 21 | Some of the things he said made no sense so they gave him a crack across the head and took him away . |
| 22 | Of course they did n't get the portable with this , they rang them up , said where 's my colour portable said I 'll put you on to the manager anyway they had some deal that night that erm to launch this Mini Mayfair or whatever it was wine and cheese thing so he went to the wine and cheese thing and worried he was gon na kick up a fuss so they gave him a telly anyway . |
| 23 | IMC could , but there was no legal way to transfer information — so they gave me a virus and I implanted it into the starsuits . |
| 24 | Anyway , so they gave us a bottle of wine . |
| 25 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I 'm sure she enjoyed it and that it gave her a purpose in life . |
| 28 | I guess that it gave her a sense of independence and allowed her personality , which was fairly dominant , to develop . |
| 29 | She loved Nick , loved him so much sometimes that it gave her a pain , but she hated to be told to do something she was going to do anyway . |
| 30 | He describes his other grandmother as ‘ a wee frail woman ’ in a mob cap , smoking a long clay pipe and ‘ stroking my hair as I lay down at her feet with my head in her lap ’ , while her railwayman husband also ‘ had a great liking for me , and when he could spring to a halfpenny or an apple or some nuts for ‘ whiteheaded Benny ’ , he did it , Once he gave me a shining white metal watchguard ’ , a symbol of work efficiency which he wore proudly to school , ‘ swanking ’ with it hung across my chest . ’ |