Example sentences of "she gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In possessing her , he is both taken out of , and placed in possession of , himself : ‘ She gave me the idea of my manliness I had grown to need . ’ |
| 2 | She gave me a slap and I gave her one back . |
| 3 | She gave me a half-smile . |
| 4 | She gave me another form to fill in for housing benefit . |
| 5 | She gave me the tip she 'd put aside for the waitress and then raided her purse again to replace it . |
| 6 | She was polite , she gave me a small box of chocolates with a thank-you card and kissed me and shook my hand when she came for a meal on Sunday . |
| 7 | The idea was that I 'd go for a fortnight but when I got there she gave me the bum 's rush so I spent a couple of miserable days in France and then hared it back to England . |
| 8 | She looked so like my daughter did at her age , and the pleasure she gave me compensated for the lack of time I had with her mother when she was a child . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But then there was that day she gave me the brooch what she said I was n't never to forget . |
| 11 | After tea we would sometimes walk round their garden , and she gave me tips on gardening which have since stood me in good stead ; and cuttings , which still bring her to my mind . |
| 12 | I learned a lot from her , and when she and Wilson came to tea with me and we walked round my garden , she gave me a lot of good advice , evidently amazed at the poverty of my crops — ‘ These are not … your Brussels ? ’ |
| 13 | She gave me a long piercing inspection . |
| 14 | Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring . |
| 15 | Mrs Webster was very understanding about my wanting to team up with Wendy , which was how I put it to her ; and when I left she gave me a Victorian glass inkwell and a brown ironstone plate , because I ‘ liked old things ’ . |
| 16 | Sensitively and unobtrusively , she gave me love and support , and perhaps in turn , I helped a little to divert the course of her suffering . |
| 17 | From this Time to that of her Death , few Days pass 'd in which I did not either see or hear from her ; for she gave me the Pleasure of seeing all her Poems as soon as they were finish 'd |
| 18 | She gave me sandwiches and coffee while I told her of Mrs Zamzam 's flight from the village in 1948 . |
| 19 | She gave me a great , gummy grin which almost split her face in two . |
| 20 | She gave me another cavernous smile and said : ‘ Barry 's Dolmen ? |
| 21 | She gave me a little wink , because , of course , they were pointing their telescopic lenses mostly at me . |
| 22 | At the time she gave me the impression that she was enjoying the joke . |
| 23 | Rosalind said it must go tonight , and she gave me three pence for a lolly to stamp it and post it . ’ |
| 24 | Before she gave me my jab , she asked the most pertinent question that anyone had so far posed . |
| 25 | With the little bottle containing the mixture , she gave me a pamphlet . |
| 26 | This old lady came out and said about the cough — she gave me a dose of cough medicine . |
| 27 | She gave me a look . |
| 28 | ‘ He has left you a cottage in Devonshire , and he said : ‘ Tell her it 's not because she saved my life , but because she gave me a fourpenny cigar . ' ’ |
| 29 | 'A' was what I needed the most , she gave me criticism and took what I had said to her seriously . |
| 30 | When without haste I reached her side , she gave me a sideways glance . |