Example sentences of "[pron] gave her " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I gave her a gruesome murder to deal with … homicide is new territory for women — the need for capture and revenge is largely masculine . ’ |
| 2 | She gave me a slap and I gave her one back . |
| 3 | I did all the usual stuff — I gave her some money and stuck her on a tube train to a night shelter , but while I was walking out of the tube station , I thought to myself , ‘ you complacent bitch ’ ’ you know . |
| 4 | As I gave her an exaggerated account of my clashes with different members of my family , she continued to discourage me , saying that the work in London was hard and that exile was no easy way of life . |
| 5 | In fact , I gave her the bum 's rush — although it was quite inadvertent . |
| 6 | I gave her a hand packing up her clothes and stuff . |
| 7 | If I was outside , she said she could telephone me every day for nothing , if I gave her the number of a phone box and arranged to be there for a certain time … |
| 8 | That was n't the reason I gave her to David , but because she was a trained dancer and I thought she could help David get the simple steps of the minuet together , because he had difficulty in putting two steps together . |
| 9 | But how I longed to be gallant , as they say ; to ask her if I might kiss her on both cheeks if I gave her my two violets . |
| 10 | When she was ninety , I gave her a surprise birthday party in a pub near here , on top of a hill . ’ |
| 11 | I gave her a rope , and told her to catch a horse and join the others who were cut off from the camp . |
| 12 | I gave her another bottle of Arg Nit LM1 with less alcohol in it and she had an excellent response for 10 days , then the pains returned so she stopped the remedy and she was well for two weeks . |
| 13 | Next I gave her some lavender essence to put in the bath ( a tin bath in front of the kitchen range ) . |
| 14 | I gave her a jar of home-made skin cream containing almond oil , cocoa butter and rosewater to soften her skin . |
| 15 | I gave her a few days off when William went away . |
| 16 | Bruce : I gave her half of this and half of this . |
| 17 | I gave her the carrier and watched her jaunty backview disappear with it into the crowds , and I was more and more sure that what she was carrying was harmless . |
| 18 | If I gave her a pencil she 'd chuck it back at you . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I gave her your number and told her to give me five minutes to warn you first . |
| 21 | ‘ I was so impressed I gave her a tape with a backing track on it the band had done , and asked her if she wanted to do some work on it . |
| 22 | ‘ I gave her another of my crushing cuddles . |
| 23 | All the same , heavy coughing always meant the possibility of water on the lungs which in turn could lead to pneumonia , so I gave her an injection of vitamin K , to thicken the blood , a sleeping pill , some linctus which contained a tiny amount of morphine , and also told her , ‘ Take one of these pills every morning for a week . ’ |
| 24 | Her father 's conviction unhinged what precarious stability she 'd managed to maintain and after she came out of the psychiatric hospital she got in touch with me and I gave her a job . |
| 25 | Some of them smelt of oil or grease of a kind she did n't recognize I gave her a few samples from the labs without telling her what they were and she picked out gun oil as being the nearest . |
| 26 | I gave her half a dollar this time . |
| 27 | I gave her all she wanted to know . |
| 28 | ‘ I gave her my condolences , ’ she said , properly , ‘ but that was as far as it went . |
| 29 | I gave her an ashtray and tilted back my chair . |
| 30 | We got settled down in a couple of cane chairs , and I gave her a cigarette . |