Example sentences of "and [pron] gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this was London at last , and nothing gave me more pleasure than strolling around my new possession all day . |
| 2 | He was no respecter of persons or institutions or ideas just because they were vested with a brief authority , and nothing gave him more pleasure than to prick the bubble of pretension . |
| 3 | Under his guidance , Parliament House was transformed from a nineteenth-century warren into a modern court-house and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to explore , and share with others , its secrets and treasures . |
| 4 | Catherine and me gave you Coke and I gave you loads this morning . |
| 5 | my holiday was later as usual and longer so , you know and there was a couple of other things not related to this which I 'd thought of doing and it 's sort of they evaporated , but erm , we did spend time talking to Ingy earlier in the year , you know , about publicity and I gave her lists of well such as things obvious things like Playback and Newsbeat |
| 6 | She gave me a slap and I gave her one back . |
| 7 | I had found out that her name was Miss Vulcan and I gave her this information as well as telling her that Miss Vulcan had a brother named Freddie who visited her and that he was a little old man who wore a black cap on his head and sported a goatee beard . |
| 8 | Her father 's conviction unhinged what precarious stability she 'd managed to maintain and after she came out of the psychiatric hospital she got in touch with me and I gave her a job . |
| 9 | We got settled down in a couple of cane chairs , and I gave her a cigarette . |
| 10 | And I gave her all my power . |
| 11 | I told her I 'd be in the Maple Leaf in Covent Garden until about nine , then down in Fulham and I gave her the address of the party and told her to ask for Louise . |
| 12 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 13 | Brenda , I adore it , it 's me all over so the bathroom I had endless trouble , as you know , with Shirley I had to buy stuff and Shirley came in and I gave her little presents of this and that and helped her with cooking meals for her she re-grouted practically my bath tiles and my en suite tiles because we thought water was going through the wall , and it was and then I had to replace the where you take the plug out in the bath , I forget what you call that , the trap |
| 14 | But she had money from and I gave her |
| 15 | ‘ I knew I could win and I gave everything I could . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I knew I could win and I gave everything I could . ’ |
| 17 | The clerk turned to me and I gave him my passport and put down eleven packets and envelopes on the counter for posting . |
| 18 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 19 | Bruno , while coy about the details of the offer , said : ‘ Rock gave me his telephone number and I gave him mine . |
| 20 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 21 | He did this with very little effort , and I gave him small wooden cubes so that he could make a cube to keep . |
| 22 | He thanked me , and I gave him back the royal Elphberg ring . |
| 23 | And I gave him one of the street scenes . |
| 24 | But he never said word but that he was ill , as plainly he was , and I gave him medicine . |
| 25 | Today Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him , and I gave him an answer . |
| 26 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 27 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
| 28 | I therefore completed to his satisfaction all the forms he gave me , and I gave him a detailed written description of our proposal , and a revised working drawing showing greater detail , with both of which he seemed satisfied . |
| 29 | I worked in up there about nineteen fifty or fifty one when I had a dispute with the manager and I gave him a week 's notice . |
| 30 | There was once years and years ago , he came in one night and I gave him these three pieces of paper and er what was it ? |