Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [coord] gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although one assumes David only crossed the border because his niece had been cheated of her crown and gave him no peace until he avenged her , haranguing him with letter after letter . |
| 2 | Mr. Occhi got into the taxi , took £1 out of his wallet and gave it to the appellant who then , the wallet being still open , took a further £6 out of it . |
| 3 | And he took the medals out of his pocket and gave them to him . |
| 4 | He pulled a Marathon out of his pocket and gave it to Philip . |
| 5 | Lee took it out of his pocket and gave it to Philip . |
| 6 | Very slowly and carefully , Carl took it out of his pocket and gave it to him . |
| 7 | Her hands stole up his chest , then to his shoulders , and finally she clasped them behind his neck and gave herself up to the pleasure of the kiss . |
| 8 | She had been a regular person once , but that had been before the voices started up in her head , before the dead woman got out of her rocking chair , before the preacherman reached into her mind and gave it a sharp twist … |
| 9 | While she was thus engaged Chignell had summoned the hotel doctor , who presently ushered her into his sanctum and gave her something to drink , which tasted horrible but made her feel much better . |
| 10 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 11 | I unzipped the pouch round my waist and gave him the small jar of paint and the sawn-off paintbrush . |
| 12 | Flaubert delighted in their presence and gave them money . |
| 13 | The elderly woman separated a skein of red silk from the bundle in her lap and gave it to her . |
| 14 | She unpacked a self-locating mine , punched in her identifier and gave it a simple verbal instruction . |
| 15 | I put it carefully back in its envelope and gave it back to Dinwiddie , who slipped it into the pile . |
| 16 | When he had made his mark , she drew a small packet of fragrant sweets called cachous from her cuff and gave him one . |
| 17 | She slipped the cigarettes from her pocket and gave him one . |
| 18 | He searched in his pocket and gave her a box of England 's Glory . |
| 19 | When the sales were on , ‘ he 'd put his hand in his pocket and gave my mother sovereigns — ‘ Go and get them all something . ’ |
| 20 | He took some money from his pocket and gave it to the taxi driver . |
| 21 | We had the match in our grasp and gave it away , ’ he said . |
| 22 | It is hard to describe the feeling I had as I persuaded her scaly old feet on to my finger and gave her a dose of my very own medicine . |
| 23 | Thank you to the person who arrived unknowingly on my doorstep and gave me a really sympathetic cuddle while I cried for 10 minutes ( ? ) in relief that I had misunderstood the doctor . |
| 24 | Several weeks later , on the twenty-first anniversary of the baby 's death , we held a tearful and moving ceremony with candles and poetry , in which Betty said goodbye to her baby and gave herself permission to get on with the rest of her life . |
| 25 | He rested his hand on her shoulder and gave her a long kiss on the lips . |
| 26 | A jolly young waiter with a Gloucestershire accent and the stars and stripes emblazoned on his apron lit the candle lamp on their table and gave them each a menu . |
| 27 | The first gave him a degree of control over appointment to benefices in the Church ; the second referred certain cases to his court and gave him certain prerogative powers . |
| 28 | Having dismissed the Cabinet on Jan. 8 , the President on Jan. 21 , 1990 , reappointed the Prime Minister to his post and gave him the responsibility for bringing together a new ministerial team [ see p. 37174 ] , which was announced on Feb. 15 and sworn in on Feb. 17 [ see p. 37240 ] . |
| 29 | ‘ If she took her poor child back to his father and gave her husband a second chance , she would n't need money . ’ |
| 30 | He went to his mother and gave her a rare kiss . |