Example sentences of "[conj] gave [pron] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 2 | That night he slept in an old cardboard box that he 'd found , and that gave him some protection from the chilling morning dew . |
| 3 | Somehow if I could only know what he was doing and who he was seeing , that gave me some kind of control over the situation . |
| 4 | He agreed , and gave her some ointment . |
| 5 | But though he had taken all my poetic power , and gave me some of his in return , he still remained himself , his own man , his own poet . |
| 6 | Somebody told me we were halfway to Maun and gave me some water which I was too thirsty to sterilise . |
| 7 | Sure enough she offered straight away and gave me some lipstick as well . |
| 8 | Neil invited me into his office — the only room in the building with even the vaguest resemblance to modern architectural demands — and gave me some cheap wine and a Benson & Hedges . |
| 9 | Although small , my enthusiasm for all Sports helped me and gave me some popularity at school . |
| 10 | When I was in police custody the doctor came in to see me and gave me some tablets and I 'm asking you for some now . ’ |
| 11 | The nurse came down and gave me some medicine which totally knocked me out . |
| 12 | Mrs ze Schluderpacheru had taken pity on him , and gave him some sweeping-up chores in return for room and board and the occasional session with Fat Juanita . |
| 13 | Felix 's wife began to recite her poetry , and wondered about his air fare , and gave him some coffee . |
| 14 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 15 | She pulled away and gave herself some time rolling and lighting a cigarette . |