Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] give [pron] [art] " 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 | Matt put in , ‘ Departing guests pay their accounts at the office , where she gives them a receipt , and Ling takes his list of commodities to her — things to be ordered for the kitchen , you understand . ’ |
| 3 | Every so often , he goes to a local hospital where they give him an injection of something , which cheers him up noticeably . |
| 4 | All the same , heavy coughing always meant the possibility of water on the lungs which in turn could lead to pneumonia , so I gave her an injection of vitamin K , to thicken the blood , a sleeping pill , some linctus which contained a tiny amount of morphine , and also told her , ‘ Take one of these pills every morning for a week . ’ |
| 5 | I could see that she was scowling and stiffening into a Mark 2 temper , so I gave her an encouraging smile — which raised her , as I expected , to a Mark 3 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I went around being nice to children for a while , being a sort of modern Pied Piper , but I learnt that they 're a manipulative lot and crazy for money , literally crazy for it , so I gave them the elbow . |
| 9 | ‘ So I gave him a clip across the back and told him ‘ No ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Well he needed a refill so I gave him a hand to push his hand cart into Berkeley last night . |
| 11 | Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom . |
| 12 | He kept stealing Nigel 's food , so I gave him a bowl of his own every day . ’ |
| 13 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 14 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | and er so one night she gave him , come in a bit paralytic , wanted a drink , so she give him a drink with a load of tranquillisers in |
| 18 | She could have tried for goal , but Mike had an easier shot so she gave him a lightning , nearside , under-the-neck pass . |
| 19 | 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 ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So you gave him the key . |
| 21 | Once she gave me a wink and she has even pinched my bum . ’ |
| 22 | We did n't want our poor prisoner to get wet , so we gave him a nice yellow raincoat , you see . |
| 23 | Room maids also suggested improving the honeymoon suite , so we gave them a project to look at suitable fabrics and rival hotel suites . |
| 24 | We 're on the same pitch then , so we give them a game and that would apply in the Premier League . ’ |
| 25 | The trouble about that is , it 's now enforced upon us and that 's official target , we have to set priority of fire certificates because we need the money , bluntly , otherwise we have to find it elsewhere , so we give them a priority that they would n't otherwise have . |
| 26 | Although they give me a good start for next issue . |
| 27 | ( 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 . ) |
| 28 | Some of the things he said made no sense so they gave him a crack across the head and took him away . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Back on the recovery ship , they opened the hatch and there was Ham with his arms crossed , looking gloriously bored by the whole episode , so they gave him an apple ! |