Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [conj] give [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep .
2 Although small , my enthusiasm for all Sports helped me and gave me some popularity at school .
3 So they took off after him , caught him and gave him a hiding .
4 ‘ Some guys approached us and gave us one ( tablet ) each . ’
5 Every morning at eight-thirty , a servant girl woke him and gave him breakfast on a tray .
6 As soon as he entered the first field to be cut his mates up-ended him and gave him the same treatment which stopped only when he shouted ‘ Beer ! ’ .
7 She unwound it and gave it to him .
8 When we got there one o one of the other boys was was already there with him and he was covered from about his waist down with coal and er we uncovered him and gave him as comfortable as we could get him until we got the stretchers and everything mobilize him and get him out .
9 He opened his and gave us a couple of bob .
10 When he finished , he kicked at the door , I opened it and gave him something to eat .
11 ‘ They took away our films , developed them and gave them back damaged .
12 ‘ I mean , we took her in when she came back from London with her tail between her legs , and we fed her and gave her a roof over her head , but she was forever dolling herself up and going out .
13 Louise kissed him and gave him the pie .
14 He took off his glove , signed it and gave it to the boy .
15 Last night he told TODAY : ‘ We were able to trace Watson after a member of the public contacted us and gave us information which suggested he was responsible for these attacks .
16 One of them hailed me and gave me a fiver to take them to a private clinic in Harley Street .
17 He remained in the royal household under Richard III , who knighted him and gave him further land in Northamptonshire and London in 1484 .
18 It was the smell that alerted her and gave her that first sudden awareness of danger .
19 Zak flashed a glance at the crew , saw me and gave me a thumbs-up sign .
20 Bunny saw me and gave me a brief nod , then went back to talking to a young black dude wearing a blue trenchcoat and nursing a colour-co-ordinated Filofax .
21 He cast around for somewhere to put them , and at once Mei Ling took them and gave them to a waiting servant .
22 , . I had a very serious patient er , the other day , and I treated him and gave him six months to live , but at the end of six months , he did n't pay his account , so I gave him another six months . , .
23 Then one day a visitor called and gave me his card , so I just took it and gave it to the master in the drawing room .
24 but er , as I say I ca n't remember precisely , I just scanned it and give it to Mick who was out the door like , Lesley put her house up for a hundred and twenty six erm , one how much is it ?
25 What he did was relatively harmless , yet somewhere deep down it damaged me and gave me a streak of recklessness that is still having consequences even today .
26 That is why God pitied me and gave me the easier task : to be crucified . ’
27 You know , there was a lot of people had them and gave them out to neighbours or not total strangers , but people that were n't really related to them .
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