Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before she could move back , he bent and gave her a light , lingering kiss on her mouth . |
| 2 | But he could be ready for anything ; for the churches which had abandoned him ; for the churches like the Philippian one which had continued to care ; for hunger ; for plenty ; for the times when he had no obvious human support , and for the times when his fellow believers came and gave him encouragement . |
| 3 | Such information was not highly ‘ theoretical ’ but it helped build up an objective picture of the people who went to the theatres I studied and gave me a useful corrective to people who made sweeping generalizations such as ‘ the theatre is for everyone . ’ |
| 4 | Then , at a stroke , something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose . |
| 5 | I turned and gave him a wave , ‘ Do n't wait up for me , I may be late . ’ |
| 6 | And I was walking away , and turned and gave him a great kick , you know , right in his balls , and I said , ‘ Come on then ’ , took a mad fit , you know , and I |
| 7 | Before disappearing through the brick arch she turned and gave him a final smile and a wave . |
| 8 | Julius turned and gave her a faint smile . |
| 9 | But , when he turned and gave her a warm , infectious grin , she found it difficult not to smile back at him . |
| 10 | Neither said a word to the assembled company , but at the door Eugénie turned and gave them her famous curtsy . |
| 11 | The man turned and gave me a friendly nod , before taking up a small piece of wood with pencil markings on it . |
| 12 | In the doorway Battler turned and gave me a final beam for good measure , then they were gone . |
| 13 | At the door he turned and gave me a last despairing look and I saw him no more . |
| 14 | Sometimes he forgot and gave them again , which she took to be a good sign . |
| 15 | They went wild and made us promise to come back and give a display , so a few weeks later we returned and gave them the whole show . |
| 16 | Stefan grunted and gave him a sharp look . |
| 17 | Erm , well , if you tell her I rang and give her my love . |
| 18 | She just went and gave me that . |
| 19 | So she went and gave him a hug . |
| 20 | He looked explosive , and then laughed and gave her a kiss on her flushed and papery cheek and bought them both a bottle of wine in the wagon restaurant for tea . |
| 21 | Mister Johnny looked at Nick ; then he laughed and gave him the skull . |
| 22 | She caught the ring at last between her teeth and he tickled her until she laughed and gave it up . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , ’ Steve urged and Ruth blinked and gave him a small smile . |
| 24 | Perversely , in the way of Customs Officers , we insisted but gave him ten minutes to clear up , then climbed on board to see to the necessary documentation . |
| 25 | And their Aussie coach Peter Walsh intends to repay them for the huge gamble they took when giving him the job last summer . |
| 26 | Gazzer leaned over as far as he dared and gave her a hand , holding on to her arm while she helped Simon to hoist himself up . |
| 27 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 28 | He leaned and gave her a smacking kiss on the cheek . |
| 29 | Only then was she aware of the telegraphist who sat beside her , who smiled and gave her the thumbs-up sign . |
| 30 | He paused and gave her an intense look that revealed a little of how it had been for him . |