Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You said er , I told , I told him I was fed up with the General Secretary of this union that had n't given us any backing and you said sorry Phil , but I 'm not the General Secretary . |
| 2 | He examined himself from head to foot , assessing without vanity the beauty that had once given him an honest pleasure , and he marked without fear the changes that moved in upon him now daily . |
| 3 | She managed to manoeuvre into the remaining space and got out to give somebody a piece of her mind . |
| 4 | Anne raised her hands in a placatory gesture and came across to give her a comforting hug . |
| 5 | ‘ UNCLE ! ’ she squealed , and rushed over to give him a big hug . |
| 6 | Tina had never been married , though her mother had never given up hope , and did not give it up now , that a wedding would one day take place . |
| 7 | We rattled them from the first minute and did n't give them any breathing space . |
| 8 | People got in and out of the lifts and did n't give him a second glance . |
| 9 | ‘ He played tennis on a high level for two and half hours , and did n't give me time to breathe , and that caught me by surprise a little bit , ’ said Boris Becker , his prize scalp , after the German had lost . |
| 10 | Unfortunately it kept to the tops of the trees and did n't give me any chance of pictures . |
| 11 | You did n't do the work at all and did n't give me the book either . |
| 12 | Needless to say , I did n't buy the memory expansion and did n't give myself a Christmas present . |
| 13 | They were trying to isolate the gene that produces insulin and insert it into the nucleus of a bacterium , so that you could get a self-replicating life-form which could then be used in the treatment of diabetes , or else it could provide a source of insulin that was n't animal-derived and did n't give you rejection problems . |
| 14 | We were all having a furious argument about who should be there to land this enormous tip and while we were doing that , his Royal Highness sort of sneaked out and did n't give anything to any of us . |
| 15 | He had not provided water to wash the feet and had not given him the traditional greeting of a kiss ( Luke 7:44–45 ) . |
| 16 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 17 | But did n't give me no moneys . |