Example sentences of "and [pron] give me [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ E asked me if I 'd go an' look for it , and 'e gave me a quid . |
| 2 | Do you remember that evening — I had n't been working for you for very long — and you gave me a lift home ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And you gave me the best ! ’ |
| 4 | Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring . |
| 5 | And she gave me a significant look . |
| 6 | I asked why and she gave me a reply I had n't expected . |
| 7 | Er I said , No , and she gave me a letter to take down there you see . |
| 8 | So I went back to the lady doctor and she gave me a cream and some tablets . |
| 9 | One is she 's very interested in the occult , erm , she actually practices tarot card readings , and what she calls the crystal oracle , and she gave me a brief explanation , which is throwing a load of rocks up a cloth er , but I 'm not going to push me |
| 10 | Right , the problem is that I ca n't seem to get through on the telephone , I phoned and her secretary came back and said you 've to phone and she gave me a guy 's name like and I got a number for him so I phoned it , ah he works in our Edinburgh office I phoned the Edinburgh office . |
| 11 | yeah , I got f I got , my total marks I could 've got was fifty eight and I got fifty four and she gave me a C and she said must improve your marks . |
| 12 | There was a slight delay as she read it and then her head slowly turned in my direction and she gave me the biggest grin I 'd ever seen . |
| 13 | And she gave me the immortal reply , ‘ No , I 'm Heather , but wo n't I do ? ’ |
| 14 | And I said I said so I told her the registration and she gave me the room number but she said . |
| 15 | Well I 'll never forget when we were younger , we had erm some Americans living across the road and they invited us er somehow I was in the kitchen , they were going to give me lunch and she gave me the most enormous |
| 16 | And she gave me an indulgent look and she said , ‘ I 'm really sorry , the pictures made me feel tender feelings for you , but they just really did not arouse me . ’ |
| 17 | So I see her on leaves , and she gives me every so often a new MCC tie ! ’ |
| 18 | Because I am 84 and live alone , she also pops in every morning and evening to ensure I am all right , and she gives me a bath once a week . |
| 19 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 20 | ‘ The wave is my lover and she gives me the ultimate orgasm . ’ |
| 21 | A group of lads talked loudly and one gave me the eye |
| 22 | and er I went there and they give me an estimate and erm when it went in the contacts she does was er no , it 's it 's more than we thought because the chassis 's twisted or |
| 23 | But they were very kind and they gave me a part in this play , it was called Tilly of Bloomsbury . |
| 24 | So I got the tyre off , and I got the spare on , and put the nuts on , and at the end of it , I gave a bow , and they gave me a round of applause . |
| 25 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 26 | and to St Giles and they heard about me and they offered me a month 's holiday and they were complete strangers and they gave me a month 's holiday |
| 27 | and I visited their friends and went to their church with them and they gave me a wonderful time , did everything for me |
| 28 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |
| 29 | place on Sunday and they gave me a meal . |
| 30 | I 'd been to see my great-aunt 's solicitors in Glasgow and they gave me the keys . |