Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I shall never forget " , he said , " the support and help he gave me during the critical months of the revolution in 1917 . |
| 2 | Returning to the advice that Leo Amery gave me as a young man , I remember reading widely from the great autobiographies and biographies that he recommended , including the works of Lord Milner . |
| 3 | Once I 'd discounted the story you gave me about Lori 's reasons for being there , I realised the note could only have come from her , and therefore she must have taken the jade . ’ |
| 4 | I could substantiate the information that Mr. Docherty gave me through contact with the West Yorkshire metropolitan police . |
| 5 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 6 | However , he says that Mr. Owen , thereupon , ‘ gravely , but very tenderly rebuked my pride , and gave me for my theme : ‘ Ne sutor ultra crepidam ’ ’ ( ‘ Let the cobbler stick to his last ’ ) . |
| 7 | After we had drunk the coffee , Kelly said , ‘ Do you notice that I 'm still wearing the blue boots you gave me for my birthday ? |
| 8 | I happened to let slip how much James gave me for it . |
| 9 | I mean , the penknife you gave me for Christmas was very nice but it does n't cut things . |
| 10 | ‘ I showed him my brooch — the one you gave me for my birthday — and I asked him about his birthday . |
| 11 | It 's worth three times what he gave me for it . ’ |
| 12 | I remember when I lost a fountain-pen Mummy and Daddy gave me for Christmas : I prayed and prayed , and I never found it . ’ |
| 13 | So I better 'ave it out , Annie , that 's if I can pawn me lace tablecloth for one an' six , same as you gave me on the watch . ’ |
| 14 | She had put the doll she gave me on my bed . |
| 15 | ‘ The one you gave me on account , remember ? ’ |
| 16 | An answer that the Under-Secretary gave me on 15 October 1990 suggested that a fair number of warning signals would be available . |
| 17 | This was all in addition to the usual lessons my father gave me on mathematics and history and so on . |
| 18 | I still have that little book of selected poems you gave me on my twelfth birthday . |
| 19 | And he put me off of that the other ones you gave me with the , what was it ? |
| 20 | Opened can of mixed veg , used water to steam the pudding Paddy gave me at Reggane . |
| 21 | Especially after the grilling you gave me at Southwold . ’ |
| 22 | And it was this background you see that er that er th th that gave me at least the need for to play some some part in |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll tell you in God 's good time , as I will about the secret instructions dear Uncle gave me at Hampton Court . ’ |
| 24 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 25 | Elaine did n't register my birth before she gave me to Mum , and no one seemed to know anything about her , or where she was from . |
| 26 | I dare n't wear that nice fur coat that cousin Freda gave me in case I get bombed by the Animal Liberation Front . |
| 27 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 28 | The van Meers brought some wine which they said was Australian and the Keiths enjoyed the reminder it gave them of meals on the Mataura . |
| 29 | ‘ Both were brought in from the garden — home grown — and never left the kitchen until Cook gave them to Edith for the table . |
| 30 | Their deafening boom tossed up lunar rainbows ; and Fenna gave them to Maggie for playthings and they dissolved in dark brightness between her fingers . |