Example sentences of "[conj] i gave [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya . |
| 2 | Not that I gave it serious thought . |
| 3 | It was in those days , when Margaret was still alive , that I gave my former colleague Peter Duval-Smith — whose private life and whose work as an academic journalist always seemed to be equally chaotic — the introduction to Braemar Mansions that he so much wanted . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Sir Edmund was out when I got back to the office , so I gave my new name and address to Rosemary and went back to the Temple to collect some kit for my weekend with Joanna . |
| 6 | She gave me a slap and I gave her one back . |
| 7 | And I gave her all my power . |
| 8 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 9 | Brenda , I adore it , it 's me all over so the bathroom I had endless trouble , as you know , with Shirley I had to buy stuff and Shirley came in and I gave her little presents of this and that and helped her with cooking meals for her she re-grouted practically my bath tiles and my en suite tiles because we thought water was going through the wall , and it was and then I had to replace the where you take the plug out in the bath , I forget what you call that , the trap |
| 10 | I had found out that her name was Miss Vulcan and I gave her this information as well as telling her that Miss Vulcan had a brother named Freddie who visited her and that he was a little old man who wore a black cap on his head and sported a goatee beard . |
| 11 | And I gave him one of the street scenes . |
| 12 | He did this with very little effort , and I gave him small wooden cubes so that he could make a cube to keep . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | That 's happened , I could n't get any one year I took the triplets to the erm Goose Hill coffee morning in the Town Hall and I gave them all money for the tombola and one of them won a Creme Egg |
| 15 | a few years ago when my sons were teenagers I had some nice dripping and I said , you 've never had bread and dripping and I gave them some , I put a bit of salt on , I said , try this , I loved a bit of med bread and dripping when I was your age . |
| 16 | Good do you remember a long time ago doing factor trees and I gave you three sixty to do ? |
| 17 | So if I gave you one pound fifty |
| 18 | Erm for example if we ha if I gave you that equation . |
| 19 | So if I gave you that and said show that that is simple harmonic motion . |
| 20 | ‘ Papa said he would beat me if I gave you any more tickets . |
| 21 | If I gave you this tenth , hundredth , thousandth okay ? |
| 22 | If I gave you this to integrate , something like four X cubed minus X two times four X cubed minus X times |
| 23 | So if we If I gave you this to integrate erm what do you think of that ? |
| 24 | I apoligise for putting a long list of questions to the Minister , but I gave him advance notice and I hope that he will answer most of them . |
| 25 | A tinker accosted me in the bar , asking for a glass of brandy , but I gave him short shrift . |
| 26 | No , I , I was gon na do it but I gave you that other half for Marie |
| 27 | was going to say check it in the book but I gave you wrong one . |
| 28 | But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time . |
| 29 | and when we were having this argument on Wednesday he said I said we what what was your reason then for not paying me for that when I was genuinely sick and he said er oh he said because I gave you such a good bonus last week , I said what was that then , he said erm twenty five pounds , I said no you did n't ! |
| 30 | You can just till I gave her special |