Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] gave [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Red Cross warehouse , we were met by Stoyaeka who drove us to her house where she gave us a meal of soup , bread , stew and dumplings , all washed down with a very palatable local red wine . |
| 2 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 3 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 4 | ‘ So I gave him a clip across the back and told him ‘ No ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Well he needed a refill so I gave him a hand to push his hand cart into Berkeley last night . |
| 6 | Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom . |
| 7 | He kept stealing Nigel 's food , so I gave him a bowl of his own every day . ’ |
| 8 | The militant , comprising four fields ( Kent , Scotland , South Wales and Yorkshire ) which consistently gave the strongest support to the strike call , although none gave it a majority at every ballot . |
| 9 | You were right , Bodo , saying to leave the matter alone — although you gave me a turn when you were so … so abrupt with the Sergeant . ’ |
| 10 | She could have tried for goal , but Mike had an easier shot so she gave him a lightning , nearside , under-the-neck pass . |
| 11 | She wanted to wound him as he was wounding her so she gave him a charming smile and said , ‘ How did you feel , Fernando , when Maria Luisa slid into your bed at that hour ? ’ |
| 12 | Once she gave me a wink and she has even pinched my bum . ’ |
| 13 | We did n't want our poor prisoner to get wet , so we gave him a nice yellow raincoat , you see . |
| 14 | Room maids also suggested improving the honeymoon suite , so we gave them a project to look at suitable fabrics and rival hotel suites . |
| 15 | ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . ) |
| 16 | Some of the things he said made no sense so they gave him a crack across the head and took him away . |
| 17 | Of course they did n't get the portable with this , they rang them up , said where 's my colour portable said I 'll put you on to the manager anyway they had some deal that night that erm to launch this Mini Mayfair or whatever it was wine and cheese thing so he went to the wine and cheese thing and worried he was gon na kick up a fuss so they gave him a telly anyway . |
| 18 | IMC could , but there was no legal way to transfer information — so they gave me a virus and I implanted it into the starsuits . |
| 19 | Anyway , so they gave us a bottle of wine . |
| 20 | He describes his other grandmother as ‘ a wee frail woman ’ in a mob cap , smoking a long clay pipe and ‘ stroking my hair as I lay down at her feet with my head in her lap ’ , while her railwayman husband also ‘ had a great liking for me , and when he could spring to a halfpenny or an apple or some nuts for ‘ whiteheaded Benny ’ , he did it , Once he gave me a shining white metal watchguard ’ , a symbol of work efficiency which he wore proudly to school , ‘ swanking ’ with it hung across my chest . ’ |
| 21 | Yet I did have a row with Arthur Calder-Marshall , so it gave me a pang when I heard that he had died last week . |
| 22 | If I gave her a pencil she 'd chuck it back at you . |
| 23 | Do you think if I , do you think if I gave him a fright , s see the , time he says he 's going off to his granny 's and I say away you go , and my mam says she 's not taking him . |
| 24 | At Oxford I discovered that most people were only too willing to be friendly if I gave them a chance . |
| 25 | I 'm sorry if I gave you a fright . |
| 26 | Erm If I gave you a problem about sort of prices of apples and pears |
| 27 | And I said , Oh well there we are take it If I gave you a pound |
| 28 | It would n't look very good if I gave you a great big rambling piece of paper now to tell you about communications |
| 29 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 30 | I 'm not comfortable but I suppose if I gave it a go I would get used to it . |