Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’ |
| 2 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 3 | It was true that I had given him life but I had not given him love . |
| 4 | Who said that I had given thee up . |
| 5 | ‘ It was then that I decided to give it a try . |
| 6 | He was more modest than I 'd given him credit for . |
| 7 | What was even more satisfying was knowing that she had given him that same lesson , not once but twice , this morning when she 'd stunned him by agreeing to see his grandmother on her own time , and last night , when she 'd turned away his advances , and never mind all that pretence about his not being interested . |
| 8 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 9 | Either he loved Kirsty less than she had given him credit for , or he hated Shiona even more fiercely than she had ever suspected . |
| 10 | Erm on , on yours in fact I could n't check sequence erm on the programme that you 'd given me because I did n't , I , I had know way of telling whether we did get a clash . |
| 11 | O was only one of the many names that we had given him , but it was the one that had lasted . |
| 12 | It could be extended to look even longer , and presented with the words that we wanted to give you ‘ a small gift ’ or a gift ‘ big enough for two ’ . |
| 13 | On top of all that Copper has always had a dust allergy and he got very congested so we had to give him powders to keep his lungs clear . |
| 14 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 15 | When Derek got the run they all cheered and a reporter commented that they had given him a great welcome , but could not possibly have known the significance of the run . |
| 16 | It has a weird effect , so bad one day that they had to give me valium to take off my bandages because I could n't handle it any more . |
| 17 | I was drug-free , like , so they had to give me them back . |
| 18 | Yeah , yeah six minutes past the hour so there , yeah , so they kept giving you doubts , now if you 're getting on this train make sure you get out at Lemington , so at about twenty past twelve , the twelve six went out from platform eleven , why , cos that will upset everything then , by , few of the trains kept coming round , then they said were very sorry but the Shrewsbury train will come in at platform ten that 's where we 're all waiting , so the ready train be outside somewhere , so , that came in just as the , the twelve , six went out about twenty past twelve these in and this girl got up so we said do n't get on this , you 'll never get to Birmingham you get on here , wait until we get on we said , cos they changed the train , oh she was getting all worked up , she come from Middlesborough , well I said well , well , anyway , we said no , there , there 's no trains for university no , nobody will be going at the right time will they ? |
| 19 | Blast , I 'd forgotten all about that little oddity , although it did give me pause at the time . |
| 20 | He retained an affection for Paris and a gratitude for the intellectual advantages that it had given him to which he later referred as pope . |
| 21 | Dad and I went in and Mr Vulcan explained that he wished to give me the harmonium and that there was a clean bed upstairs if we wanted it . |
| 22 | The room that he 'd given her was smaller than his own , but she got a bigger wardrobe . |
| 23 | All that he had to give her with his mind and body was sucked out of him into her . |
| 24 | Thus , for example , when meeting the TUC General Council in January 1942 he warned that he could not put money towards the elderly ‘ at the cost of the children ’ and that he had to give them ‘ fair treatment without ruining the country ’ . |
| 25 | But he was so scared of them getting his own father that he had given them no names at all , not even his own . |
| 26 | Several women friends of Waddell said that he had given them within days of the murder large sums of money ; and a barman to whom Waddell had given £1000 for safe keeping said Waddell had told him he had won a packet on the horses . |
| 27 | Now he knew that he had given her what he had , and no one could give more . |
| 28 | From under her cloak , Maisie took the scroll of paper that he had given her back in August . |
| 29 | He replied that he had given it verbally to a police sergeant , but that he must have forgotten about it . |
| 30 | Now all I 'm saying is that he undertook to give us those in forty eight hours . |