Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] gave [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also they had to film the invasion in the dark so they gave us two lamps . |
| 2 | right , and I look over to Roger and Roger 's flicking through his notes like this and as you , you were peeping through and he 's trying to find out what , what he 's talking about , they 're not looking at each other and anyway at the end of it , er we went through it and at the end of it he turned round and went how was it , what were you playing at , what was that spiel that you gave it 's in my brief , that 's one of my objections |
| 3 | Ricky was so furious with Perdita for deliberately sabotaging her scholarship that he gave her the sack . |
| 4 | It 's not B T , it used to be B T , erm until about 1984 , when we decided that the maintenance that they gave us was n't good enough , and got Plessey in . |
| 5 | His appearance in the Toyota World Match Play at Wentworth in October was his 17th in succession and it gave him the chance of winning the title for a record sixth time . |
| 6 | Fortunately , it was easy to make a decision as Wayne Shelford was already at the club and he gave me an insight into what it was all about and what to expect . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Dorcas said he thought it would n't do any harm if we gave him a hand , sort of thing , ’ said the nome nervously . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Out of the money that we gave them . |
| 13 | I am very grateful for the opportunity that you gave me to speak to the NFU Branch Committee on Thursday last . |
| 14 | This MacGregor he was to be a minister , and he was a well educated man but unfortunately he 'd made a mistake when he preached his sermon so he gave it up . |
| 15 | Yeah , but he did n't need the modulator so he gave it to because he 's got a monitor , right ? |
| 16 | It was not Diana 's day to lunch so they gave me her secluded table from which to view the proceedings . |
| 17 | It was widely said that he had long resented the Shah 's great oil wealth and the independence that it gave him . |
| 18 | Father immediately suggested that Jenny go and sit on his lap and he gave her a big cuddle . |
| 19 | They went over all , while they were doing this work and he gave us a sheet last week , we were doing all the questions this week and he went over all the questions with us ! |
| 20 | Like all the members of staff , Miss Smith was dedicated to her work and she gave us a fine start in life . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | She went on a school trip to a museum and we gave her our little camera which I could never use . |
| 23 | Well I 'll never forget when we were younger , we had erm some Americans living across the road and they invited us er somehow I was in the kitchen , they were going to give me lunch and she gave me the most enormous |
| 24 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 25 | We listened to the hon. Member for Derby , South when she gave us the present status of Beckett 's laws — a pledge to increase pensions and child benefit , to which the new manufacturing package has been added . |
| 26 | You asked for Operation Cuckoo to be your personal responsibility and I gave it to you . |
| 27 | There was a slight delay as she read it and then her head slowly turned in my direction and she gave me the biggest grin I 'd ever seen . |
| 28 | He gave us his story and we gave him ours . |
| 29 | When I first got it in the I was a bit , well it do n't sound too hard , bit down hard , but then again they were in a rush , I said there 's your present and I gave it to them , and they unwrapped it and me mum says oh come on we 'll be late for the club , cos they were getting free drinks at the pub , oh she , she did n't even want to look at it , I said oh , and she looked at it |
| 30 | I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant . |