Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE parents of a little boy who died after being knocked down while learning his Green Cross Code told last night how he made them promise to give his organs to suffering children . |
| 2 | Before he went out , he made me promise to give you this . ’ |
| 3 | Naturally , the other people appeared and something would crop up which made me Plan to give their adventures an airing in a future book . |
| 4 | My father was a Gemini , and I knew your mother was a Sagittarian as soon as I found he 'd given her half the clip . |
| 5 | And then they sent me a questionnaire saying they understood that he 'd he 'd given my address , and was he res , was he still resident ? |
| 6 | He asked who had given her them , and she said they were a present from her mother . |
| 7 | Walter Smith told his players before they left the dressing room at Celtic Park that he appreciated they had given him all they could since the start of that run in August . |
| 8 | I really felt I 'd given myself totally to African life . " |
| 9 | I thought someone 'd given me a TV set — I was so excited , I ripped the box open and this girl went , ‘ Can I have your autograph ? ’ |
| 10 | I only took out the palace because I knew I 'd given I 'd written a cheque for forty |
| 11 | Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought I 'd given it to you , ’ John says . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought I 'd given it to you , ’ Paul says . |
| 14 | She thought she had given him a very tricky word , one that he would n't yet have learned , and she was peeved that he had succeeded . |
| 15 | I thought I thought we 'd given it a really good airing this |
| 16 | Went through so many operations he felt he wanted to give something back to the Health Service . |
| 17 | While Sarazen felt ‘ the biggest heel in the world ’ , he also knew he had to give himself the best chance of winning the Open ; and that , regrettably , could not be achieved with his old caddie Dan . |
| 18 | I thought your going to give her some flowers ? |
| 19 | The tape you sent us has given us a lot of nostalgic pleasure . |
| 20 | But not when they 're eating , here why did I bother giving you a bath ? |
| 21 | ‘ Did you ring to give me a lecture or have you got something you want to discuss ? ’ she asked impatiently . |
| 22 | When my mum and dad discussed they decided to give me and my brother twenty five pound each and have |
| 23 | When the Devenishes had nothing left to give him , Tolby abandoned them . |
| 24 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 25 | She said she 'd given it a lot of thought and decided she 'd just got carried away because it was all such fun . |
| 26 | The answers Caro wished she had given him were still boiling and bubbling inside her . |
| 27 | The death of Elise , and Max 's desertion — had they combined to give her a look of pathos ? |
| 28 | Had he meant to give them that special significance ? |
| 29 | Said it 's given her a bit more drive again . |
| 30 | Well she said it 's given her a new sort of er zest for the job , you know . |