Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [pers pn] gave [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brenda , I adore it , it 's me all over so the bathroom I had endless trouble , as you know , with Shirley I had to buy stuff and Shirley came in and I gave her little presents of this and that and helped her with cooking meals for her she re-grouted practically my bath tiles and my en suite tiles because we thought water was going through the wall , and it was and then I had to replace the where you take the plug out in the bath , I forget what you call that , the trap |
| 2 | Especially as I went in and he gave me those brochures . |
| 3 | when she , this man was n't very well on , she saw him up at her window and she saw he was n't very well on the other side of the road and she sent down to ask him to come in and she gave him a cup of tea and everything and she was talking |
| 4 | And I went down and he gave me a letter , he says Take your wife in to the general hospital with this letter . |
| 5 | But she 'd let him have a slice of the cake she 'd brought in if he gave her and her friend fruit or ice cream — whatever he 'd bought . |
| 6 | The top came off and he gave it to Emmie . |
| 7 | Erm mm , I do n't know whether there 's any way round it but that 's sort of the set up that they gave us when we started and I guess I 'll have to sort of conform to that , but it |
| 8 | I sat up and he gave me the handkerchief out of his pyjama pocket . |
| 9 | ‘ They appreciated the peace it gave them from the ones who wound them up and it gave us peace . |
| 10 | When your editor asked what kind of tank I would set up if he gave me £250 for Christmas , it was , unfortunately , only a hypothetical question . |
| 11 | As he said , you ought to know what you were giving up before you gave it up . |
| 12 | I played outside , running around in a pair of shorts and — I imagine-quite happy to have the whole pregnancy thing going on because it gave me more freedom to do as I liked about the house and garden , free from my father 's supervision . |
| 13 | He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff … |
| 14 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 15 | And this wifey come out and she gave him a nasty talking to , chapping chapping on her door with a stick . |