Example sentences of "so [pers pn] gave [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , heavy coughing always meant the possibility of water on the lungs which in turn could lead to pneumonia , so I gave her an injection of vitamin K , to thicken the blood , a sleeping pill , some linctus which contained a tiny amount of morphine , and also told her , ‘ Take one of these pills every morning for a week . ’ |
| 2 | I went around being nice to children for a while , being a sort of modern Pied Piper , but I learnt that they 're a manipulative lot and crazy for money , literally crazy for it , so I gave them the elbow . |
| 3 | ‘ So I gave him a clip across the back and told him ‘ No ! ’ |
| 4 | He kept stealing Nigel 's food , so I gave him a bowl of his own every day . ’ |
| 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 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 8 | She could have tried for goal , but Mike had an easier shot so she gave him a lightning , nearside , under-the-neck pass . |
| 9 | ‘ So you gave him the key . |
| 10 | Room maids also suggested improving the honeymoon suite , so we gave them a project to look at suitable fabrics and rival hotel suites . |
| 11 | Some of the things he said made no sense so they gave him a crack across the head and took him away . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ( 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 . ) |
| 14 | Back on the recovery ship , they opened the hatch and there was Ham with his arms crossed , looking gloriously bored by the whole episode , so they gave him an apple ! |
| 15 | IMC could , but there was no legal way to transfer information — so they gave me a virus and I implanted it into the starsuits . |
| 16 | Anyway , so they gave us a bottle of wine . |
| 17 | I have looked after his books for forty years and that 's all I know , so he gave me the capital to start and here I am . ’ |
| 18 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |
| 19 | Some , however , did receive Him and believed in Him ; so he gave them the right to become God 's children . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , as usual , except- ’ She stopped and she turned to look at him , but she could n't make out his face in the darkness of the wood , so it gave her the courage to say , ‘ I 'm worried , Charlie . |