Example sentences of "and [pers pn] gave " in BNC.
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1 | Catherine and me gave you Coke and I gave you loads this morning . |
2 | She gave me a slap and I gave her one back . |
3 | ‘ I am a teacher of English at a school in Cologne and I gave up my job at the end of March and returned to England . ’ |
4 | So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time … |
5 | Asking the way down with the glory of sight restored would have been stupid in the extreme , and I gave secret thanks for my ego salvation . |
6 | The clerk turned to me and I gave him my passport and put down eleven packets and envelopes on the counter for posting . |
7 | As time went on this picture changed and I gave the cancer cells more cunning characteristics . |
8 | ‘ I took a bowl of water and I gave it hirin , as if it was my father , or my brother , ’ said Kalchu . |
9 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
10 | ‘ Bas and I gave a little drinks party for all the local planning committee . |
11 | I made myself eat liver — they hate liver — and I gave up the odd episode of ‘ Coronation Street ’ to read them Rudyard Kipling — with actions and funny voices . |
12 | You asked for Operation Cuckoo to be your personal responsibility and I gave it to you . |
13 | The Indian in charge of it had to do all the technical work himself , and I gave the short address that had been scheduled . |
14 | I had found out that her name was Miss Vulcan and I gave her this information as well as telling her that Miss Vulcan had a brother named Freddie who visited her and that he was a little old man who wore a black cap on his head and sported a goatee beard . |
15 | Bruno , while coy about the details of the offer , said : ‘ Rock gave me his telephone number and I gave him mine . |
16 | ‘ I knew I could win and I gave everything I could . ’ |
17 | ‘ I knew I could win and I gave everything I could . ’ |
18 | I 've always had an ear for accents , and I gave them my best German and Italian and my speciality : French with a hint of Punjabi . |
19 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
20 | I said to them it was placing the team and the ARFU in a terrible situation and I gave them a 5.30 pm deadline otherwise the tour was off . |
21 | Her father 's conviction unhinged what precarious stability she 'd managed to maintain and after she came out of the psychiatric hospital she got in touch with me and I gave her a job . |
22 | ‘ It was only a postcard photo and I gave it spirituality , animation and took it to another vocabulary ’ . |
23 | Retracing our steps , we passed the reed screen once more and I gave a cursory glance through the hole . |
24 | He did this with very little effort , and I gave him small wooden cubes so that he could make a cube to keep . |
25 | We got settled down in a couple of cane chairs , and I gave her a cigarette . |
26 | He thanked me , and I gave him back the royal Elphberg ring . |
27 | She did n't tell me what I was doing , so all right , I pushed , and I gave birth to the afterbirth and thought , Oh , that 's why she wanted me to push . |
28 | in town , and I gave them me name and me address , and then they sent a letter saying , No , you ca n't have one . |
29 | And I gave her all my power . |
30 | I wrote scientific papers by dictating to a secretary , and I gave seminars through an interpreter who repeated my words more clearly . |