Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] gave [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 What would Fen say if she gave him a truthful answer , told him that Hugh had done her a good turn , jilted her before she could make the most dreadful mistake of her life ?
2 I already had permission to search all the surrounding fields , so I waited until the field was harvested before I gave it a thorough going over with my detector .
3 She says that they gave them every assistance possible .
4 But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw .
5 What would you do if I gave you the jade ?
6 Do you think if I , do you think if I gave him a fright , s see the , time he says he 's going off to his granny 's and I say away you go , and my mam says she 's not taking him .
7 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 .
8 His eyes opened and he gave me a weak smile .
9 Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes .
10 Just tell him what we want him to give us , you know if he gave us the advance nod on something then we could either you know deal it exclusive or we 'll put it all round , you know , whichever they prefer .
11 She has got in ( and out of ) problems with drugs , alcohol and a quasi-religious cult : ’ I was brainwashed and I gave them an enormous amount of money , ’ she says with a shrug .
12 I guess that it gave her a sense of independence and allowed her personality , which was fairly dominant , to develop .
13 I 'm not comfortable but I suppose if I gave it a go I would get used to it .
14 I do n't think there is any question about that , and I feel like we gave him a good shot at staying alive .
15 Right , the problem is that I ca n't seem to get through on the telephone , I phoned and her secretary came back and said you 've to phone and she gave me a guy 's name like and I got a number for him so I phoned it , ah he works in our Edinburgh office I phoned the Edinburgh office .
16 I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all .
17 Dino Tremiti , the number-two driver , was sitting next to Mike , his eyes amused as he gave her a very comprehensive survey .
18 Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom .
19 ‘ I told him I did and he gave me a look which suggested that I should n't have kept it from him ! ’
20 He chuckled and she gave him a light punch on the shoulder .
21 She was always quiet , which I liked because it gave me a chance to talk without interruption .
22 I suppose I should be flattered that you gave me an ‘ A ’ — though I 'd be better pleased if you thought enough of me to send my flowers in person , instead of by remote control .
23 His expression gentled and he gave her a slow smile filled with a conviction that was very male and utterly sure .
24 Right I just wondered if she gave you an address cos it you know got a super little town map here .
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