Example sentences of "[conj] we gave [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We did n't want our poor prisoner to get wet , so we gave him a nice yellow raincoat , you see . |
| 3 | Room maids also suggested improving the honeymoon suite , so we gave them a project to look at suitable fabrics and rival hotel suites . |
| 4 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 5 | I do n't think there is any question about that , and I feel like we gave him a good shot at staying alive . |
| 6 | Dorcas said he thought it would n't do any harm if we gave him a hand , sort of thing , ’ said the nome nervously . |
| 7 | If we gave them the five hundred , we wo n't , we are within , having said that , we 're not going to give everybody everything , I do n't think . |
| 8 | But we gave them a lesson . |
| 9 | When we gave it a tightfisted 52% in Issue 79 , our main bone of contention was that it was ridiculously overpriced . |