Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Red Cross warehouse , we were met by Stoyaeka who drove us to her house where she gave us a meal of soup , bread , stew and dumplings , all washed down with a very palatable local red wine . |
| 2 | Matt put in , ‘ Departing guests pay their accounts at the office , where she gives them a receipt , and Ling takes his list of commodities to her — things to be ordered for the kitchen , you understand . ’ |
| 3 | well you do n't have to go where you give you one |
| 4 | Every so often , he goes to a local hospital where they give him an injection of something , which cheers him up noticeably . |
| 5 | Whenever we need to go to and from the Institute , or even if we want to make an expedition into town , we go to the Car Office , at the hotel , where they give us deluxe transport by car , and pick us up again when we want to return . |
| 6 | Where they gave me meat and drink . ’ |
| 7 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 8 | All the same , heavy coughing always meant the possibility of water on the lungs which in turn could lead to pneumonia , so I gave her an injection of vitamin K , to thicken the blood , a sleeping pill , some linctus which contained a tiny amount of morphine , and also told her , ‘ Take one of these pills every morning for a week . ’ |
| 9 | I could see that she was scowling and stiffening into a Mark 2 temper , so I gave her an encouraging smile — which raised her , as I expected , to a Mark 3 . |
| 10 | ‘ Apparently , her cat had very bad plaque on its teeth and she was really concerned , so I gave her some advice and Amy has been in touch ever since . |
| 11 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 12 | I went around being nice to children for a while , being a sort of modern Pied Piper , but I learnt that they 're a manipulative lot and crazy for money , literally crazy for it , so I gave them the elbow . |
| 13 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 14 | ‘ So I gave him a clip across the back and told him ‘ No ! ’ |
| 15 | His Spanish was almost non-existent , and he did not know how to study a foreign language , so I gave him lessons . |
| 16 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 17 | ‘ Well he needed a refill so I gave him a hand to push his hand cart into Berkeley last night . |
| 18 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 19 | That means he thought Maureen was his mother , so I gave him to her . |
| 20 | Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom . |
| 21 | He kept stealing Nigel 's food , so I gave him a bowl of his own every day . ’ |
| 22 | It seemed she expected an answer , so I gave it . |
| 23 | I thought that I was being stupid , so I gave it up . |
| 24 | There 's at least one track from all eight albums , and two tracks are from a live album , so I gave it to a wonderful guy called Jonathan Downs from the Fan Club , who knows an awful lot that I 'd forgotten myself , or never even knew ! |
| 25 | I glanced quickly at it but found it too difficult to understand , so I gave it back . |
| 26 | But there was not time to prepare this seminar , so I gave it myself , with one of my graduate students repeating my words . |
| 27 | ‘ But it was too much hard work and sacrifice , so I gave it up when I was sixteen . |
| 28 | but I persuaded him that it would melt while he had his drink and to put it in my bag and er it was lunchtime when we got home and we were going some I , I ca n't remember what we were doing afterwards so I gave it to his mother , I thought she could share it . |
| 29 | The militant , comprising four fields ( Kent , Scotland , South Wales and Yorkshire ) which consistently gave the strongest support to the strike call , although none gave it a majority at every ballot . |
| 30 | You were right , Bodo , saying to leave the matter alone — although you gave me a turn when you were so … so abrupt with the Sergeant . ’ |