Example sentences of "and i gave him " in BNC.

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1 The clerk turned to me and I gave him my passport and put down eleven packets and envelopes on the counter for posting .
2 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 !
3 Bruno , while coy about the details of the offer , said : ‘ Rock gave me his telephone number and I gave him mine .
4 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 .
5 He did this with very little effort , and I gave him small wooden cubes so that he could make a cube to keep .
6 He thanked me , and I gave him back the royal Elphberg ring .
7 And I gave him one of the street scenes .
8 But he never said word but that he was ill , as plainly he was , and I gave him medicine .
9 Today Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him , and I gave him an answer .
10 The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 ?
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