Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] gave [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I do n't where I got I gave him quite a good sermon which I thought was y know quite erm to try and help the situation and he said I 'd give them er my conditions . |
| 2 | When they divorced he gave her the house in a clean break settlement and paid twenty pounds a week maintenanace . |
| 3 | You can guess what happened he gave it to me . |
| 4 | So before we separated he gave me a working title for a song , and told me he wanted me to finish it by the next time he saw me . |
| 5 | Reckoned it gave him a psychological advantage . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I heard they gave him a blood transfusion up the hospital , ’ said Billy . |
| 7 | He helped her to make the house ready for the next occupant , and though she protested he gave her the money for her railway journey back to London . |
| 8 | I mean we used to go about three times four times did n't we and we oh I bet every time we went she gave him a twenty packet of number ten . |
| 9 | No , it took she gave me the Times . |
| 10 | I thought Janet 's own car , I thought they gave it to Greg 's brother ? |
| 11 | Before he died he gave me his statements to look after . ’ |
| 12 | If the racket came right I felt it gave him the confidence to go for the shots . |
| 13 | The next time I went he gave me a drawing he had done . |
| 14 | ( Oh , yes , I was a handsome rogue , tall with jet-black hair , olive-skinned but with a cast in one eye , I always thought it gave me a devil-may-care look . ) |
| 15 | He thought it gave him a rakish daring look , especially when he wore it at an angle with his loud checked jacket and green tie . |
| 16 | She thought he gave her an intimate probing look as though he was thinking " does she know ? " |
| 17 | GUIL : That 's odd — I thought he gave it to me . |
| 18 | ‘ The first night we met he gave me a bunch of flowers , ’ says Denise . |
| 19 | When our eyes met he gave me a frigid little smile . |
| 20 | The the exercise of course was out of eight because I gave I gave you to do asking the questions to do which provided an answer . |
| 21 | Well what she bought she gave it all to Mary because she had Ben 's birthday party . |
| 22 | If you were in London erm you were called up give gave you gave you a white feather cos you were going in the army . . |
| 23 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 24 | Lucy had to stand on tiptoe to use it , but when she did it gave her a partial view of the clientele at their tables . |
| 25 | What I liked about it was that though it was biting sarcasm , the way he spoke it gave you the impression not of a man who was bitter in any way , but of a man who pitied the members of the government for being so rotten and pitied us for being governed by such scum . |
| 26 | I knew that if Sandy won it gave him exemptions in the US the next year , the US Masters , Tournament of Champions , World Series . |
| 27 | So she said to help Mary out she said I gave her all the sweets and chocolate I had she said so the kids could have something to go over with . |
| 28 | I said an er I said do you think that I was n't a career woman , I said I gave it all up for yo er to have to look after my young babies and then when the babies were no longer young , when I got through that phase of my life I went back and combined looking after a home very adequately , thank you ! |
| 29 | Mrs Webster was very understanding about my wanting to team up with Wendy , which was how I put it to her ; and when I left she gave me a Victorian glass inkwell and a brown ironstone plate , because I ‘ liked old things ’ . |
| 30 | She said she gave me three mugs |