Example sentences of "just gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just gave him a piece of fruit , Oscar said , and told him to learn French . |
| 2 | I just gave him something on the side . |
| 3 | Charlie did n't reply , just gave his daughter a stare — which was enough . |
| 4 | He just gave right up without a struggle . |
| 5 | It just gave Seve a lot more pressure . |
| 6 | Clearly at a basic level if you just gave someone a board and lake to practise on , apart from being dangerous it would take many months of frustration for them to work out what to do . |
| 7 | I am sure they thought that if they just gave us a token punishment , then the whole thing would all be forgotten . |
| 8 | There was n't a light anywhere , but Uncle just gave Madge her head and she brought him safely home . |
| 9 | And I think my own sort of obsessive nature in the studio really started to get to Terry , and he just gave up trying . |
| 10 | They laid Victor on the floor of their shack and prayed for him , but Victor , realising that nothing could be done just gave up and refused to eat . |
| 11 | But Mum just gave them one of her black looks and elbowed her way past the two women and went into Granny 's house . |
| 12 | When I told her what was troubling me she just gave me a piece of clean rag and said more or less the same as Mum had . |
| 13 | He said he just gave the driver an ‘ actor 's slap ’ to the face . |
| 14 | She just gave a dirty chuckle but later , in the hospitality room , I noticed her glossing up , and then she marched up , got hold of my face and planted a great magenta smacker on my cheek , and held it there for several seconds . |
| 15 | I overcame this problem quite easily in the end : I just gave her less for supper when she was off my hand , got her weight down , say , half an ounce , and built up her appetite , so that when I had her on my fist she 'd be hungry . |
| 16 | ‘ They did n't pay me no wages , not real wages , they just gave me a bob now and again , and me board and lodgin' , and some clothes . |
| 17 | What was that strange pill you just gave me ? |
| 18 | They did n't give me methadone , they just gave me I think it was 30 milligrams of Librium and two sleepers of a night time … . |
| 19 | Until one day they just gave up . |
| 20 | I just gave in , I had n't the strength to resist them . |
| 21 | I got married twenty three years ago in China , well , we just invite er , invited er our friends , and er former school mates to ma , to my home and we did n't make any vow , er we just gave a banquet to the friends , and er , in China people now can get married in many ways and er some foreigners have come to China to get married in a traditional Chinese way , and they have to er , carry their bride in a sedan chair . |
| 22 | So I just gave them the statutory amount per tape |
| 23 | Er no cos I realized that I was that it was totally wrong so I just gave it a miss and went on to something else . |
| 24 | I just gave up . |
| 25 | He just gave her one look . |
| 26 | I just gave him a look . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , some people say he died in the town , always trying to make a broom that would last ; others say he just gave up and wasted away , others that he got somebody else to make the brooms and found somebody to provide better twigs , and got people to sell the brooms in other towns and cities , and hired more people to make more brooms , and built a broom-making factory , and made lots of money and had a splendid house made … |
| 28 | It just gave them an excuse to do what they wanted in the name of the Devil . |
| 29 | The calvados did not flow like fire if taken with sucre en morceaux like this : it just gave a funny kick in the area of her chest , and made her gurgle with the heat of it . |
| 30 | I just gave her a lift to the Fair . ’ |