Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] gave [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | M. I gave you that book to read because I thought you would feel identified with him . |
| 2 | I carried mine , then I put it in my pocket and further along the route I gave it to someone in the crowd . ’ |
| 3 | I mean , after all the shit I gave them they 've really stood by me and me girlfriend as well . |
| 4 | Of course I gave her an ‘ A ’ . |
| 5 | The rain was pelting him relentlessly and he may have been as well to have had no clothes at all for all the protection his gave him . |
| 6 | But I said I am the money I gave him his first flying lesson , I paid for it , like I bought his first three cars . |
| 7 | ‘ An' where 's the money I gave yer fer the pictures ? ’ he demanded . |
| 8 | He is still at sea with the silver I gave him to discover fresh treasure . |
| 9 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 10 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 11 | it opens the door , it opens the door , that 's why both my younger girls , I mean Diane 's a different policy any way cos she wants to be a , but with the other two , who worked interest in computers and when they left college I gave them crash course in , in typing not in shorthand because they do n't they do n't need shorthand nowadays , |
| 12 | The greatest pleasure I gave him was the fact that nobody knew about me . |
| 13 | One , it was true , still sported a bruise which gave her a rather raffish air , but it was already fading . |
| 14 | Two years earlier , Vlitos had persuaded T&L to investigate artificial sweeteners , and to spend £250,000 collecting katemfe berries grown in Ghana to extract the protein which gave them their intense sweetness . |
| 15 | For when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 16 | Carey addressed the wealthy directly , quoting Jesus ' parable about the sorting of the goats ( the wealthy ) from the sheep ( the poor ) in St Matthew 's gospel : ‘ The curse is upon you … for when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But I loved all that beautiful furniture and the tea she gave us . |
| 18 | Before she could speak he said : ‘ Sorry , I 've lost the key you gave me . ’ |
| 19 | She looked so like my daughter did at her age , and the pleasure she gave me compensated for the lack of time I had with her mother when she was a child . |
| 20 | They seemed to be doing fine , but just to be on the safe side we gave them another four days to adapt . |
| 21 | From the quick glance he gave her she saw that had surprised him . |
| 22 | Look , here is the drawing he gave me : see how fine it is , how accurate , how personal … |
| 23 | In return for Jos 's labour he gave him bed and board . ’ |
| 24 | The only sign he ever gave that anything was amiss in his family was the number of times he got out his thumbnail-sized pipe for the comfort of the single puff it gave him . |
| 25 | He enjoyed her body , though he would n't allow himself to dwell on the pleasure it gave him , and being away from her , even for one day , was a kind of purgatory . |
| 26 | It was also the terrible pleasure it gave her when he touched her . |
| 27 | ‘ Whatever pleasure it gives you can not match the pleasure it gave me to buy this trinket for you . ’ |
| 28 | I told him how much pleasure it gave me to think of him in charge of the school next year . |
| 29 | With great trepidation and much backsliding the tsar eventually granted the serfs a sort of freedom , but if their interests had been dear to his heart he could have committed himself earlier and pressed harder for a settlement which gave them an economically viable future . |
| 30 | Höfner were wont to wax lyrical about the new ‘ Slendaneck ’ feature of this guitar which gave you ‘ the thinnest neck ever , with really fast playing action ’ . |