Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] gave [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never ceased to be astounded by how quickly and thoroughly he absorbed the notes I gave him . ’ |
| 2 | He was of middle height , well built , possibly in his mid-forties ( though Jane was not much good on ages ) with dark curly hair and slanting eyes which gave him a slightly Slavonic look , though there was not a trace of accent in his speech . |
| 3 | Let him thus lose his eyes which gave him sight of the maiden 's beauty for which he coveted her . |
| 4 | But BodyShop 's appearance is more a reflection of accounting curiosities which gave it such a huge return on capital last year : likewise fire extinguisher company Nu-Swift , whose remarkable figures last year put it at the top of the ROC table . |
| 5 | Alexander sought the advice of numerous doctors and voice trainers who gave him different medicines or voice exercises , but this only brought him temporary relief . |
| 6 | The spectacular charge of the Light Blue Brigade from stakeboat to finish line con founded the bookies and the Tideway pundits who gave them no chance against Barcelona gold medallist Matthew Pinsent and his crew . |
| 7 | Please pass on our thanks to all the Mums , Dads and kids who gave us such a great present for our involvement with the creche over the past couple of years . |
| 8 | It was while she was reading one of the books they gave her — by a philosopher called Christ — the next day by the lamp-light that she suddenly realized what that gemmed necklace had said . |
| 9 | I only read a little in the books he gave me , picked up what I could . |
| 10 | Some features of that world are nowadays entirely inscrutable — notably , what it was in Frederic Lowndes 's self-effacing position on The Times which gave him and his wife access to a society of international aristocracy and even royalty , and to the inner circles of the cabinet , as well as the society of novelists and playwrights . |
| 11 | Venality was rife ; the precedent of even groups as illustrious as the Beatles and the Stones signing to contracts which gave them only a penny a record had become legendary : at the end of the Sixties , Allen Klein had achieved notoriety for his dexterous accounting abilities , working for both groups in the role of both ‘ finder ’ extracting hidden royalties from the record company for the group — and ‘ taker ’ — extracting them from the group for himself . |
| 12 | Dr Macdonald was consulted on a series of cases which gave him clues to what was to become an accepted theory . |
| 13 | Prior to that date , however , some of the greater landowners , as lords of regality , maintained private courts which gave them opportunities to attract lawyer-freeholders to their service and hence to their political interest . |
| 14 | During my sheltered youth I had two fleeting experiences which gave me some indication that I was not alone . |
| 15 | ‘ At the same time , the saddest call I ever had was from a boy who said he had marvellous parents who gave him everything . |
| 16 | ‘ Those snaps you gave me — they were not much good , very difficult to work with . |
| 17 | Or , perhaps , it was in some way due to the directions we gave them ? |
| 18 | Even under Edward 's guidance it proved difficult to feel my way into the texts he gave me to read . |
| 19 | I mean I , see the tablets you gave him ? |
| 20 | tablets you gave me |
| 21 | See these tablets you gave me ? |
| 22 | The solicitors who gave him the court order for them to release all the details on that . |
| 23 | He stated : " Haughey had retained all but one of the tapes I gave him , and at no stage indicated disapproval of the action that had been taken . " |
| 24 | I want to welcome obviously particularly er the order relating to Wales because it confers on Wales er one additional seat , giving us five altogether because of the rise in the Welsh population over the last ten years and that er although Wales was under represented under the previous erm er you know distribution of seats which gave us only four we will be slightly over represented when we have five because you simply ca n't have four and a half seats , it 's got to be one or the other but since the Welsh population is continuing to rise very rapidly then it is likely that that will be put right . |
| 25 | I still have that little book of selected poems you gave me on my twelfth birthday . |
| 26 | We feel very strongly about freedom of expression , so when [ in 1989 ] the NEA withdrew its grant to Artist 's Space , within forty-eight hours we gave them $10,000 to replace it . |
| 27 | So ten times something gave us three sixty ten times what ? |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know why you 're wearing that ridiculous outfit , ’ said Robert , ‘ and I do n't know why you 're telling all these things to Malik and telling him about things I gave you as a present . ’ |
| 29 | Start by playing these combinations with one note then apply some of the melodic permutations I gave you in part 1 of this series . |
| 30 | We need to have some idea what the cells are picking up from , and where they are sending information to , in order to apply those two principles I gave you earlier , the selective trigger feature , and the selective projective zone . |