Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [conj] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know if people stopped carping and gave it a chance , they would get hooked . |
| 2 | ‘ You now , of course , come into possession of a substantial sum , following Miss Morgan 's death , ’ McLeish observed , sounding as accusing as he could , and she stopped chewing and gave him her full attention . |
| 3 | When she 'd finished and given it to him , they both sat at her tiny kitchen table . |
| 4 | We wrote these extraordinary shows , and then I just put on a dinner-jacket , started singing and gave them up . ’ |
| 5 | The original wall survives at the base to a greater degree than we had realised and gives us a substantial footing . |
| 6 | And er , Margot was behind the and they were painting her house and somebody fell and she had to go and give them artificial respiration or something did n't she ? |
| 7 | They had to go and give him some support and they put up quite a good fight . |
| 8 | Of the two passengers , both women , one had turned and given them a glare , the other pretended nothing was going on . |
| 9 | Matthew sliced it diagonally as Lizzie had described and gave them their portions . |
| 10 | Now she saved her animus largely for the council , which seemed unfair , since it had permitted her to buy for almost nothing the house which her mother had rented and given her a grant for improvements . |
| 11 | ‘ No , I stayed hidden and gave them time to get away . |