Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [conj] [pron] gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are lots of ways to walk to Fort William if that 's what you fancy , except now one of them is littered with lots of wooden posts with painted thistles , and hundreds of people trudging about who never thought of walking to Fort William until someone gave them the West Highland Way guide book for their Christmas . |
| 2 | I told him about the defenestration of Ramsey Everett and he gave me five hundred pounds . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 5 | so mind the wee er nerve pills that you gave me mamma . |
| 6 | This was in connection with my RNR Sea Cadet duties but it gave me much more confidence on the navigational side of cutter service . |
| 7 | He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived . |
| 8 | Bruno , while coy about the details of the offer , said : ‘ Rock gave me his telephone number and I gave him mine . |
| 9 | So I went back to the lady doctor and she gave me a cream and some tablets . |
| 10 | That 's happened , I could n't get any one year I took the triplets to the erm Goose Hill coffee morning in the Town Hall and I gave them all money for the tombola and one of them won a Creme Egg |
| 11 | They enabled the sisters to honour their own privacy needs and they gave us a clear sense of personal identity . |
| 12 | Its American parent makes watches in Little Rock , Arkansas , whose favourite son wore a Timex ticker when he gave his State of the Union address . |
| 13 | We sometimes drank small cups of China tea and he gave me colour prints of Chinese landscapes and mountain scenery at Christmas and the Chinese New Year . |
| 14 | Good do you remember a long time ago doing factor trees and I gave you three sixty to do ? |
| 15 | They showed this to Auntie Lou and she gave them a frame so that they could hang it in their bedroom , but they did n't look at it much . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're so sorry about what happened to poor old Goosie Lucy but she gave us no choice . |
| 17 | He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off . |
| 18 | Erm he wrote to Photo Gallery and asked them for er an exhibition date and they gave him one in nineteen ninety . |
| 19 | ‘ I said I would give him my pilot sunglasses if he gave me his weapon . |
| 20 | He retired after the last C E T and he gave me all his pens and stuff . |
| 21 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
| 22 | She could feel the great flight of the dragon and sensed that she was high in air and travelling fast towards the sunset ; she could feel the great muscles of the dragon 's wings send ripplings down the stomach walls and she gave herself over to death . |
| 23 | One gave her a gold ring and one gave her a little dog . |
| 24 | Gerry pointed out , however , that referees were not happy having Pushov and his interpreter stood on the goal line as it gave us an unfair advantage . |
| 25 | So it 's a very great honour and privilege for me to address you today because at the end it may be difficult for you to understand but when I return to South Africa , and forgive me for speaking personally I also realize the full meaning of the support of British trade unions and the labour movement and the churches because it was because of your political material and particularly in the case of the G M B , financial and material support that it gave us the means to do what some of us wanted to do about our country and our situation , and bring about change if we could peacefully . |
| 26 | This extravaganza was directed by Max Reinhart and it gave me my first experience as an impresario , for I was commissioned by the MGM office for Canada to ‘ organize the promotion ’ of the film in our area . |
| 27 | He hinted that she might even receive an honour from the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher if she gave her support . |
| 28 | ‘ It was only a postcard photo and I gave it spirituality , animation and took it to another vocabulary ’ . |
| 29 | I remembered that German lad at er sat at side and I gave of one my gun buttons and he gave me this postcard . |