Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , Philip or somebody gave me the level premium . |
| 2 | Ever since then , whenever I left a job or anyone gave me a present , I was given more of the same . |
| 3 | The militant , comprising four fields ( Kent , Scotland , South Wales and Yorkshire ) which consistently gave the strongest support to the strike call , although none gave it a majority at every ballot . |
| 4 | I am told there are two sisters who dwell under one roof , and can not speak to one another , for the one is a Free Churcher and the other is a Baptist ; and that one gave to the other cause of great offence , having put cream in the tea of the other when such kind office was not desired . |
| 5 | IRA bomber Rosena Brown was a better actress than anyone gave her credit for . |
| 6 | So this was London at last , and nothing gave me more pleasure than strolling around my new possession all day . |
| 7 | He was no respecter of persons or institutions or ideas just because they were vested with a brief authority , and nothing gave him more pleasure than to prick the bubble of pretension . |
| 8 | Under his guidance , Parliament House was transformed from a nineteenth-century warren into a modern court-house and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to explore , and share with others , its secrets and treasures . |
| 9 | Trouble is , if someone gave you icing all the time and no cake , that just sucks . |
| 10 | For example , if someone gave as their hobbies on their CV only reading and chess , and they were applying to you for a job where they would be working with the public , might you not have doubts about that person ? |
| 11 | Earlier this year the mother of three , who counts Warren Beatty and George Hamilton among her former beaus , was quoted as saying : ‘ If someone gave me the cash I 'd have a facelift this minute . ’ |
| 12 | If someone gave you minus four , it would turn that into sixteen . |
| 13 | I felt ill and someone gave me some DFs and I felt better . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I howled like a dog , struggling against my captors , until someone gave me a crack across the head and I slipped into unconsciousness . |
| 16 | Now if we were looking at these the other way up right if somebody gave you the triangle |
| 17 | But perhaps it would be nice if somebody gave you a gift voucher for Christmas and it said an eyebrow trim , and you were dying to have an eyebrow trim but you did n't know where to come , and perhaps you were a little bit frightened about having one , so , it might , you know , get you to come into the salon . |
| 18 | If somebody gave you a bit of sheet music ? |
| 19 | You 'd like mink if somebody gave it to you . |
| 20 | They were called Suede , and nobody gave a toss about them . |
| 21 | Nobody asked her to go dancing , and nobody gave her presents . |
| 22 | One gave her a gold ring and one gave her a little dog . |
| 23 | A group of lads talked loudly and one gave me the eye |
| 24 | She took the view that if one gave women the chance to do current affairs they might produce current affairs ' programmes that were different from men 's . |
| 25 | So , the , the other thing which is er erm , a real problem , partly because of that , is , is when one talks about an increase in in giving , increase in percentage i , or a contribution of the church is in er , we were talking about twenty percent la , twenty one percent last year that would be alright if everybody gave twenty one percent ! |
| 26 | Theirs is cider and Carslberg special and Emva Cream , and mine is a bottle of brandless brandy and lo-cal ginger ale , ever figure conscious as if anyone gave a damn . |
| 27 | Hobbyists felt guilty about things outside their control , and lots gave up . |
| 28 | But nothing gave me the right to say it now . |
| 29 | but nothing gave , and I left him , |
| 30 | She passed several men , but none gave her a second glance . |