Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas Cromwell was offered £100 for his help in obtaining the post of justice in North Wales ; J. Lucas proposed to give him £10 for wine — literally a pourboire if appointed King 's Solicitor . |
| 2 | Granddad got to give you some as well are n't he ? |
| 3 | As we ate , Dr Jaffery promised to give me a ring the following morning to confirm that the festival was going to be celebrated . |
| 4 | When a priest came to give her the Last Rites , she gazed on the crucifix that he held before her eyes and felt her illness leave her . |
| 5 | The sight of Celia and Brassard seemed to give him courage . |
| 6 | We should get Grant 's all ready because mummy forgot to give him one before he went to school . |
| 7 | Cadfael turned to give him a long , thoughtful look , and a few white petals that had floated and lodged in the rough cloth of his sleeve caught the stirring of air from the door , and floated free again , riding the draught into the pale , bright sunlight . |
| 8 | He was older , seventy , and his legs began to give him such pain . |
| 9 | Carlie decided to give him one more chance . |
| 10 | He was wearing brown basket-weave shoes and a suit with pronounced machine-stitching around big lapels meant to give it that above-the-ruck bespoke look . |
| 11 | The most enjoyable four days with ‘ Jolly ’ Jean , ‘ Gentle ’ Joan and ‘ Lovely ’ Lucy combined to give us a variety of sessions with different apparatus . |
| 12 | Her anguished reply appeared to give him pause , but he had no time to follow it up , as the organ began to play the triumphal entry of the Queen of Sheba . |
| 13 | The cement floor was cold underfoot and the water colder , so I washed quickly and jumped out on to the carpet , gratefully rubbing myself with a towel which the Sheikha had given me . |
| 14 | And I was reaching some conclusions about the choice that Gharr had given me . |
| 15 | Just before he left , Creed had given him the date . |
| 16 | In fact , she had n't seemed pleased with anything Neil had given her lately . |
| 17 | All of the courage , the new-found confidence which Dr Neil had given her , with his love , drained away from Sally-Anne at the sight of Dr Neil 's face when Havvie told him who she was . |
| 18 | Dennis had given us a rough time in the previous two Tests and so I started to chat to him to get him in a favourable mood for when it was our turn to bat . |
| 19 | For the first time Robbie found herself wishing her brothers had given her a less striking gift . |
| 20 | Those long years in junior command had given him an intimacy with the poilu denied to most of the other French chiefs , and because of his low rank in 1914 he knew — unlike Haig and Joffre — very well what wounded men looked like . |
| 21 | He had asked to be transferred , but his club had given him notice of retention and refused to release him . |
| 22 | The fire crew had to cut free the man with his legs trapped , after Rachel and Nina had set up an intravenous infusion and David had given him a pethidine injection to help control his pain . |
| 23 | This time , the Labour party had smoothed most of the inconsistencies and hesitations from its policies for secondary schools : thirteen years of loyal opposition had given them plenty of time and motivation to do that . |
| 24 | Similarly , a former CIA agent had given him a detailed , off-the-record account of the agency 's involvement with arms and narcotics trafficking in the Middle East . |
| 25 | A north-west gale had given us a good shaking up crossing from Peterhead to Wick resulting in a cracked cylinder head . |
| 26 | One day , an important but superstitious client cancelled his insurance policy when the pen Waterman had given him to sign with refused to work . |
| 27 | But when we arrived home , we found the stranger had given me two pound notes as well as the coin . |
| 28 | Eleanor had given him the opportunity he had needed . |
| 29 | The walls of his cell had given him nightmares . |
| 30 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |