Example sentences of "but [pron] gave [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But nothing gave me the right to say it now .
2 I think I said it was a 6-iron or maybe a 7 , but I gave him the yardage and he hit his shot right at the hole .
3 I was utterly baffled , but I gave you the benefit of every doubt , which by this time added up to a couple of thousand .
4 When he and his brothers left this world , I could not go with him , but he gave me the gift of never growing old .
5 I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well .
6 But he gave me the car … . ’
7 General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt .
8 Police were told and tailed Newall but he gave them the slip and fled from Britain on a yacht he inherited from his parents , a court in Gibraltar heard .
9 He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there .
10 Not only did this save the horses the pull up the hill through the village , but it gave them the occasion for one more glimpse of Tamar and the children , who stood on the steps , waving .
11 ‘ You came to in the middle of it , unfortunately for you , but it gave me the opportunity to make a superficial examination . ’
12 ‘ Yes — no doubt she is — but what gave you the idea that I have such a plan in mind ? ’
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