Example sentences of "[conj] i gave him " in BNC.
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| 1 | In I gave the book to him or I gave him the book , him would normally be considered thematic in FSP theory . |
| 2 | He feasted for months , for years , on a small pair of my slippers that I gave him ; I expect he has burnt them by now . |
| 3 | It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya . |
| 4 | I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant . |
| 5 | ‘ So I gave him a clip across the back and told him ‘ No ! ’ |
| 6 | His Spanish was almost non-existent , and he did not know how to study a foreign language , so I gave him lessons . |
| 7 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 8 | ‘ Well he needed a refill so I gave him a hand to push his hand cart into Berkeley last night . |
| 9 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 10 | That means he thought Maureen was his mother , so I gave him to her . |
| 11 | Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom . |
| 12 | He kept stealing Nigel 's food , so I gave him a bowl of his own every day . ’ |
| 13 | The clerk turned to me and I gave him my passport and put down eleven packets and envelopes on the counter for posting . |
| 14 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 15 | Bruno , while coy about the details of the offer , said : ‘ Rock gave me his telephone number and I gave him mine . |
| 16 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 17 | He did this with very little effort , and I gave him small wooden cubes so that he could make a cube to keep . |
| 18 | He thanked me , and I gave him back the royal Elphberg ring . |
| 19 | And I gave him one of the street scenes . |
| 20 | But he never said word but that he was ill , as plainly he was , and I gave him medicine . |
| 21 | Today Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him , and I gave him an answer . |
| 22 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 23 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
| 24 | I therefore completed to his satisfaction all the forms he gave me , and I gave him a detailed written description of our proposal , and a revised working drawing showing greater detail , with both of which he seemed satisfied . |
| 25 | I worked in up there about nineteen fifty or fifty one when I had a dispute with the manager and I gave him a week 's notice . |
| 26 | There was once years and years ago , he came in one night and I gave him these three pieces of paper and er what was it ? |
| 27 | All he wants to do is to get his hand inside my blouse or up my skirt , but if I gave him the chance to do anything more he 'd be so scared he 'd wet his pants . ’ |
| 28 | Do you think if I , do you think if I gave him a fright , s see the , time he says he 's going off to his granny 's and I say away you go , and my mam says she 's not taking him . |
| 29 | He said of course he 'd do it if I gave him the phone number of the hospital . |
| 30 | A tinker accosted me in the bar , asking for a glass of brandy , but I gave him short shrift . |