Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] gave [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I gave him a yard of slack line and decided to wait it out . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | So I gave him a copy of my summary . |
| 4 | So I gave myself the day off . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Cos I was passing it so she gave me a couple of tablets . |
| 8 | We could really make this place swing if only they gave us the data to work on , could n't we ? ’ |
| 9 | So they gave him a job . |
| 10 | So he gave me a baler and I did all of Ork around about Birsay and Sanday and round the area here and baled their hay to them . |
| 11 | Jo Joan when she came over she gave me a hug and she said I mean every word of that mum . |
| 12 | Not one gave them an inkling of the Whitehall collusion . |
| 13 | And once I gave him a fish-cake for free . |
| 14 | Once or twice Paula teased me about nude swimming , and once she gave me a brief conducted tour of the gardens and the house . |
| 15 | Quickly she gave him a tip , also a message to be delivered to William Ash , warning him that she 'd be in contact with him as soon as she knew where Ace planned to base himself . |
| 16 | And then when he 'd won he offered Heseltine the had of friendship and promptly he gave him the Poll Tax , which will finish him for ever . |
| 17 | Once more it gave him a feeling of identity , but this time it was n't reassuring . |
| 18 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 19 | ‘ Seven years later they gave him a parish of his own . |
| 20 | The Chinese are very good singers , and practically every other person seemed to have a good voice and a repertoire of songs , a lot of them popular revolutionary songs , but also they gave us a rendering of ‘ old Man River ’ and a few others , and we all rounded the occasion off with Rio Grande , Old MacDonald had a farm ( during which the Chairman of the Institute Revolutionary Committee looked a bit bemused ) and Auld Lang Syne. and I also did our bit , singing a few English songs including ‘ Turpin Hero ’ , and we even attempted a rendering of two Chinese songs from the opera ‘ the White-Haired Girl ’ , much to everybody 's amusement and applause . |
| 21 | The constant streams of traffic flowing past it gave it the appearance of an ocean liner in a sea full of tiny fish . |
| 22 | And when it came out I gave it a puff in my little rag , and made sure the others did the same . |
| 23 | But er well I gave him a box of matches to go with him and I thought oh well he 'll have plenty of matches then . |
| 24 | Ha , well who gave you a particulars then ? |
| 25 | Mm well you gave them the size and you checked the size . |
| 26 | We talked a bit then I gave him a lift back to his hotel . |
| 27 | Then I gave him the slip and came to London . ’ |
| 28 | Or maybe someone gave him a warning . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Yeah but like think about it , first , I mean the first couple of tapes of people like saying oh yeah , so then we had sex , and then we gave him a blow job ! |