Example sentences of "[conj] gave [pron] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bend over , " he said , and gave me six with his Pop cane , a stiff , knotted bamboo . |
| 2 | My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died . |
| 3 | Some were real scrambles and gave me hundreds of grey hairs . |
| 4 | She smiled at me and gave me two small ones and I followed her to their house . |
| 5 | Er you get some man come and gave me ten pound for it . |
| 6 | Ruth put the shell away in the safest pocket of her waterproof , and gave him one of the chocolate bars . |
| 7 | Mr Fractor shouted at him each lesson and gave him two lengths of the corridor nearly every week . |
| 8 | I pulled up underneath the e/a and gave him two bursts … the e/a was last seen at sea level eight miles away heading towards Sicily with some speed but apparently little concern . ’ |
| 9 | , . 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 . , . |
| 10 | She was teasing , but I answered , ‘ I 'd guess Mercer assured the waiter he would n't be fired and took him aside and gave him twenty dollars . ’ |
| 11 | It was alleged by his widow that Thomas Flete , as agent of Clemens , ‘ … him feloniously slew and murdered and clove his head in four parties and gave him ten deadly wounds in his body and when he was dead they cut off one of his legs and one of his arms and his head from his body to make him sure ’ . |
| 12 | I contacted the landowner immediately after the inquest to inform him of the result and gave him three coins , one for each of his sons . |
| 13 | Angela stripe , co-owner of Clayton-Stripe International and a former member of Britain 's World Cup team , took one Madonna look-alike and gave her five fab hairstyles ! |
| 14 | Finally the doctors sat Sandra down and told her Kelly 's body was rejecting the organs — and gave her six months to two years to live . |
| 15 | The barber took a knife to the thicket , weighed it when it was off , and gave her 2½ lb of hair wrapped up in tissue paper which the nurse briskly took from her as soon as they were outside because she did n't believe in being morbid . |
| 16 | ‘ Some guys approached us and gave us one ( tablet ) each . ’ |
| 17 | Perversely , in the way of Customs Officers , we insisted but gave him ten minutes to clear up , then climbed on board to see to the necessary documentation . |