Example sentences of "[adv] they gave [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they gave him a job . |
| 2 | So they gave him a special job . ’ |
| 3 | At ten o'clock they gave us a handsome club sweater , which was so generous we decided to let someone else win the domino handicap . |
| 4 | ‘ Seven years later they gave him a parish of his own . |
| 5 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He immediately queried the instructions and eventually they gave him a new course to steer . |
| 8 | Then they gave her a battery of psych-tests that plugged straight into her nervous system ; though she fought against it , they strapped her down and there was nothing she could hide , no way to stop the relentless tide of data and attitudes they programmed into her , or the probing of her mental set . |
| 9 | ‘ Then they gave me a lumbar puncture and discovered the problem . |
| 10 | Then they gave us a charge sheet — it was huge , something like 23 particulars , some of which I did n't even recognise . ’ |
| 11 | Instead they gave her a letter saying that the baby was in perfect health . |