Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sorry I gave you such a rotten tea . ’ |
| 2 | " I m sorry I gave you such a fright . |
| 3 | Erm sorry I gave them all away I 'm afraid mhm yeah so er I 'm tempted to start rolling again in a moment so would you like to make an announcement yeah ? |
| 4 | This I gave to Shawcraft . |
| 5 | For this I gave them about 30p , which is rather a lot , & since then they have been running up to me when they see me , offering to polish up my briefcase etc . |
| 6 | On the night of 20–21 April 1808 I gave birth to a son . |
| 7 | ON OCTOBER 2 I gave a talk on the British monarchy at an astrological conference in Oslo . |
| 8 | In Chapter 2 I gave a breakdown of the five minimum requirements of the graph search mechanism . |
| 9 | At this she gave off a pulse of hesitation . |
| 10 | Some you gave me wi when I changed . |
| 11 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ It was a wonderful donation and because it was so generous we gave the Leas the chance to name the two dogs . ’ |
| 12 | A spokeswoman for The Guide Dog for the Blind Centre at Middlesbrough said : ‘ It was a wonderful donation and because it was so generous we gave the Leas the chance to name the two dogs . ’ |
| 13 | But in the last minute of the first half they gave away a penalty for going over the top at a ruck and Aled Williams , the Swansea outside-half , made no mistake from 20 yards to establish a 10–0 lead . |
| 14 | When the Cid heard this he gave command to store all his Castles , and had them well repaired . |
| 15 | While doing this he gave a wonderful imitation of his coal merchant and his wife . |
| 16 | You will recall that when we talked about the libido theory , I said that there were erm different one of the reasons why Freud had to introduce the libido theory was he wanted to get away from the narrow biological reproductive concept of sex to do with genitals and reproduction which is of course he 'd want to expand it to include psychological never seen before er or never seen before so clearly , such as erm love of the self and , and this he gave the name narcissism , well he did n't actually , somebody else invented it not long before and he took it over very quickly . |
| 17 | Despite all this he gave me one term to show some improvement , I never really shed the " below average " tag at the Halton style of academy . |
| 18 | The tide was so high it gave the impression of the train being waterborne . |
| 19 | To some it gave help in sickness and consolation in poverty . |
| 20 | A fuel tank was shaped into a boat so that when empty it gave 600lb buoyancy in the event of ditching . |
| 21 | She had never counted how much she gave with such ardent pleasure . |
| 22 | Oh it er oh it used to take it all depends how much they gave her to do you see . |
| 23 | I do n't know how much they gave , but I do know that it , it , it came into a , a few hundred pounds which is a lot of money in those days you know , when you 're talking about nineteen sixteen . |
| 24 | ‘ When you get really hungry you 'll be sorry you gave so much as a mouthful away . ’ |
| 25 | Erm you gave your business card , sorry you gave your buyer 's guide first and Steve raised an objection then about do you find it a problem only selling for one company |
| 26 | She would n't be required until the grand finale in the late afternoon , and for that she gave thanks . |
| 27 | All I had were a few personal belongings and a little money , and these I gave to Jean-Claude with all my heart . |
| 28 | After she retired from the headship of her department in 1920 she gave much time to various women 's groups and to societies for the promotion of women 's interests . |
| 29 | What I suggest to you is far more officers than the three you gave evidence of perhaps five or even the full six at some stage found their way into that master bedroom . |
| 30 | When I was ill she gave me some herbs made into a medicine and I got better quite quickly . |