Example sentences of "[conj] gave [pron] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landlord then relented in part and gave her back the keys to the bedsit . |
| 2 | Moving her arms to his neck , she clasped him as tight as she could and gave him back kiss for kiss . |
| 3 | I stole the father and gave Him back the son ! ’ |
| 4 | She wrapped up the clogs and gave them back to me with the instruction that I was only to wear the shoes when I came to call . |
| 5 | ‘ They took away our films , developed them and gave them back damaged . |
| 6 | She took them off and gave them back to him . |
| 7 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
| 8 | The city , he continues , was a ‘ sign of capital ’ ; it ‘ took up and eviscerated the varieties of social practice and gave them back with ventriloqual precision ’ . |
| 9 | For a tenner , I snapped up a dinner-jacket for an office party , and gave it back afterwards . |
| 10 | Something put his hand on Anne 's bottom , but did not seem to mind too much when she peeled it off and gave it back to him . |
| 11 | I put it carefully back in its envelope and gave it back to Dinwiddie , who slipped it into the pile . |
| 12 | Then she took off his tunic and gave it back , helping him into it , fastening the buttons possessively . |
| 13 | ‘ Forward ! ’ , and gave it back to her , with a serious air . |
| 14 | He read the typescript quickly , signed it , and gave it back to her . |
| 15 | and gave it back quickened . |
| 16 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
| 17 | He flicked up his eyes , small and blank , holes that sucked in everything around him , but gave nothing back . |