Example sentences of "so [pron] gave " in BNC.

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1 So I gave him a copy of my summary .
2 So I gave them up , gave them all up .
3 So I gave up my quest .
4 So I gave him a yard of slack line and decided to wait it out .
5 So I gave him slack line and waited again .
6 So I gave up the production of all but ‘ Leicester Square to Broadway ’ and began to wonder if I would not be happier producing shows for the BBC in London or in another country — perhaps China .
7 If someone said , ‘ just taking £5 off you , ’ and said they ‘ knew me son ’ and all that rigmarole and ‘ so I gave them £5 ’ , then your knowledge of the law came out immediately .
8 I got so bad I could n't do it so I gave up .
9 So I gave her time .
10 So I gave up on the idea of girls until I was about fifteen , when I suppose my hormones calmed down a bit .
11 So I gave myself the day off . ’
12 Well , in my book nothing comes before football and so I gave them a simple ultimatum : ‘ Make your choice .
13 So I gave up .
14 So I gave myself just half an hour to get to the theatre and prepare for curtain up — and phoned home at each interval .
15 So I gave up .
16 So I gave him half of mine , half of it , you know how it 's a tablet now ?
17 The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss .
18 so I gave that and there was nothing , this year the citizens have nothing at their
19 , . 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 . , .
20 So I gave you a topic sport or a hobby or an interest that you had and you produced a thought pattern for that just as we 'd done in the practice one with the subject of water , but then we moved on a stage further to get what are called a structured thought pattern .
21 well I have because we have erm , we 've got that Durham and Wearside telephone directory , so I gave Catherine the number and she said she 's got to ring her tonight about something I think what Catherine must of done was , well she must of send orders to her by post
22 That 's why I wanted to start them so I gave them back to him .
23 Steven was there so I gave .
24 So I gave them to dad to do .
25 He 's , he 's already come in for one form put it , he 's obviously filled one form in , he came up and he said can I have an application form for that job in the window , so I gave him one and he went , oh well I 've just filled one in .
26 so I gave him a couple of quid , three quid , for lending me it plus the spinner cos spinner do n't work on washer
27 I keep doing it wrong so I gave up and I 'm just covering it with purple .
28 Oh yes , they were a bit pleased but straight away they started getting , you know Alex was getting tired so we were getting can I get it out , can I get this out , can I get that and it were half open and I was frightened of losing the bits so I gave him one and he said no he did n't want that one he wanted the other one , so I give him another one and then I nearly gave him a clout .
29 So I gave it to him , only he came past on his bike .
30 So she gave up , and sat between the vines in the hot sun , alternately sleeping and working her way through the dusty volumes of Peregrine Pickle , bound in crimson and gold leather , with real bookworms making agitated forays from their dark crannies into the heat and light across the extraordinary scenes where Smollett 's elderly ladies retained their urine indefinitely to put out putative fires , or sweetened their foul breaths with violet cachous to deceive desired young lovers .
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