Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pers pn] gave [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He immediately queried the instructions and eventually they gave him a new course to steer . |
| 2 | Well , in my book nothing comes before football and so I gave them a simple ultimatum : ‘ Make your choice . |
| 3 | We could really make this place swing if only they gave us the data to work on , could n't we ? ’ |
| 4 | And then when he 'd won he offered Heseltine the had of friendship and promptly he gave him the Poll Tax , which will finish him for ever . |
| 5 | And once I gave him a fish-cake for free . |
| 6 | Once or twice Paula teased me about nude swimming , and once she gave me a brief conducted tour of the gardens and the house . |
| 7 | Yeah but like think about it , first , I mean the first couple of tapes of people like saying oh yeah , so then we had sex , and then we gave him a blow job ! |
| 8 | So and then they gave me an injection in the back . |
| 9 | He said what a waste of bloody time and then he gave me a five-pound note . " |
| 10 | Yeah , well I know but er he had n't seen anyone , he reckons for well over a year and when phoned me up I agreed to have lunch with him and then he gave me an earful about all sorts of things including erm in Norwich issuing net fares on Norwich Amsterdam . |
| 11 | The designer 's brows drew together and then he gave her a grudging smile . |
| 12 | And then he gave her a great , a great big bouquet did n't he ? |
| 13 | ‘ A female Solomon , ’ said Neil , sighing , and then he gave her the most charming grin , and through the ruin of his face she suddenly saw what Matey must have known — the handsome soldier-boy he had once been . |
| 14 | ‘ And then he gave us the will and the other papers and he said to us , just before we toddled off to Morocco — ’ |
| 15 | The Chinese are very good singers , and practically every other person seemed to have a good voice and a repertoire of songs , a lot of them popular revolutionary songs , but also they gave us a rendering of ‘ old Man River ’ and a few others , and we all rounded the occasion off with Rio Grande , Old MacDonald had a farm ( during which the Chairman of the Institute Revolutionary Committee looked a bit bemused ) and Auld Lang Syne. and I also did our bit , singing a few English songs including ‘ Turpin Hero ’ , and we even attempted a rendering of two Chinese songs from the opera ‘ the White-Haired Girl ’ , much to everybody 's amusement and applause . |