Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry I gave you such a rotten tea . ’ |
| 3 | " I m sorry I gave you such a fright . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some you gave me wi when I changed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Oh it er oh it used to take it all depends how much they gave her to do you see . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | When I was ill she gave me some herbs made into a medicine and I got better quite quickly . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm glad he gave it to you . |
| 11 | ‘ I was so impressed I gave her a tape with a backing track on it the band had done , and asked her if she wanted to do some work on it . |
| 12 | ‘ Sure I gave them her . |
| 13 | ‘ Are you sure you gave me a map ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Are you sure you gave him the message right ? |
| 15 | And all you gave him , all you did for him . ’ |
| 16 | I feel that at 1–0 we gave ourselves a very good chance . |
| 17 | ‘ I made sure they gave you one without the prices . ’ |
| 18 | It improved my techniques and skill in interpretation , but above all it gave me confidence in teaching and training students . |
| 19 | For instance , when Petrarch met the Emperor Charles IV at Mantua in 1354 he gave him some Roman coins with the words , ‘ Look , Caesar , on those whom you have succeeded ; look on those you should strive to emulate . ’ |
| 20 | Whilst it was still airborne you gave it an almighty swipe and endeavoured to send it further than your opponent . |
| 21 | For when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 22 | Carey addressed the wealthy directly , quoting Jesus ' parable about the sorting of the goats ( the wealthy ) from the sheep ( the poor ) in St Matthew 's gospel : ‘ The curse is upon you … for when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 23 | At first I gave her oral sex while she was sitting in an armchair and then we had full sex with a condom . |
| 24 | In May 1869 he gave his inaugural lecture on Homer , but his classical interests were now turning towards Greek tragedy . |
| 25 | ‘ Ad enuff have you , boy ? ’ he said picking him up and with that he gave them all a brisk wave and disappeared down the steps , closing the hatch quickly behind him . |
| 26 | I 'm quite an independent person , but I was quite insecure , I needed someone to say this is good , this is bad , and because he was doing that it gave me the determination I needed . |
| 27 | At a meeting of the Royal Medical Society in 1860 he gave his own gloss on the prostitution debate . |
| 28 | My grandfather , George Hey ( 1854–1916 ) , worked in a Thurlstone cloth mill as a dresser or finisher when he was a young man , but on the occasion of his second marriage in 1900 he gave his occupation as waggoner . |
| 29 | When I was eighteen she gave me the job of housekeeper in the big cottage she kept at Streatlam to entertain her friends coming to swim in the pool and play tennis . |
| 30 | So have I , so I 've lost that hundred he gave me ? |