Example sentences of "[adv] i gave [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Come on I gave you some coke this morning .
2 ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’
3 So I gave him a copy of my summary .
4 So I gave him a yard of slack line and decided to wait it out .
5 So I gave him slack line and waited again .
6 So I gave him half of mine , half of it , you know how it 's a tablet now ?
7 , . I had a very serious patient er , the other day , and I treated him and gave him six months to live , but at the end of six months , he did n't pay his account , so I gave him another six months . , .
8 He 's , he 's already come in for one form put it , he 's obviously filled one form in , he came up and he said can I have an application form for that job in the window , so I gave him one and he went , oh well I 've just filled one in .
9 so I gave him a couple of quid , three quid , for lending me it plus the spinner cos spinner do n't work on washer
10 Oh yes , they were a bit pleased but straight away they started getting , you know Alex was getting tired so we were getting can I get it out , can I get this out , can I get that and it were half open and I was frightened of losing the bits so I gave him one and he said no he did n't want that one he wanted the other one , so I give him another one and then I nearly gave him a clout .
11 So I gave them up , gave them all up .
12 If someone said , ‘ just taking £5 off you , ’ and said they ‘ knew me son ’ and all that rigmarole and ‘ so I gave them £5 ’ , then your knowledge of the law came out immediately .
13 Well , in my book nothing comes before football and so I gave them a simple ultimatum : ‘ Make your choice .
14 That 's why I wanted to start them so I gave them back to him .
15 So I gave them to dad to do .
16 So I gave myself the day off . ’
17 So I gave myself just half an hour to get to the theatre and prepare for curtain up — and phoned home at each interval .
18 So I gave her time .
19 The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss .
20 So I gave it to him , only he came past on his bike .
21 So I gave you a topic sport or a hobby or an interest that you had and you produced a thought pattern for that just as we 'd done in the practice one with the subject of water , but then we moved on a stage further to get what are called a structured thought pattern .
22 I had already acquired the address from the ‘ yellow pages ’ and estimated that it was a ten mile drive , thus I gave myself half an hour to account for delays .
23 And once I gave him a fish-cake for free .
24 Often he was right , often I gave him a bad time for sticking his nose in .
25 And when it came out I gave it a puff in my little rag , and made sure the others did the same .
26 Oh well I gave them and went home and went to bed .
27 Well I gave him all the information that had been given to me and we discussed between us various options that were open to us .
28 Well I gave him two when he stayed here to stay er to hang er on his door and he
29 But er well I gave him a box of matches to go with him and I thought oh well he 'll have plenty of matches then .
30 And everybody says , Well I gave you a hundred , I gave him five , you
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