Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | In I gave the book to him or I gave him the book , him would normally be considered thematic in FSP theory . |
| 2 | Erm , Philip or somebody gave me the level premium . |
| 3 | Patients who denied any symptoms , or who gave a history of a single episode of self-limiting dyspeptic symptoms were also excluded from gastrscopic examination , but all other patients were offered gastroscopy as outpatients . |
| 4 | Ever since then , whenever I left a job or anyone gave me a present , I was given more of the same . |
| 5 | Or he gave them the impression that he wrestled , with limbs contorted , in the effort to seize hold of what truth could be found . |
| 6 | ‘ Look , if you do n't want to tell me who you are , or what gave you the horrors , then do n't . |
| 7 | So this was London at last , and nothing gave me more pleasure than strolling around my new possession all day . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Catherine and me gave you Coke and I gave you loads this morning . |
| 11 | She gave me a slap and I gave her one back . |
| 12 | ‘ I am a teacher of English at a school in Cologne and I gave up my job at the end of March and returned to England . ’ |
| 13 | So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time … |
| 14 | Asking the way down with the glory of sight restored would have been stupid in the extreme , and I gave secret thanks for my ego salvation . |
| 15 | The clerk turned to me and I gave him my passport and put down eleven packets and envelopes on the counter for posting . |
| 16 | As time went on this picture changed and I gave the cancer cells more cunning characteristics . |
| 17 | ‘ I took a bowl of water and I gave it hirin , as if it was my father , or my brother , ’ said Kalchu . |
| 18 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 19 | ‘ Bas and I gave a little drinks party for all the local planning committee . |
| 20 | I made myself eat liver — they hate liver — and I gave up the odd episode of ‘ Coronation Street ’ to read them Rudyard Kipling — with actions and funny voices . |
| 21 | You asked for Operation Cuckoo to be your personal responsibility and I gave it to you . |
| 22 | The Indian in charge of it had to do all the technical work himself , and I gave the short address that had been scheduled . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Bruno , while coy about the details of the offer , said : ‘ Rock gave me his telephone number and I gave him mine . |
| 25 | ‘ I knew I could win and I gave everything I could . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I knew I could win and I gave everything I could . ’ |
| 27 | I 've always had an ear for accents , and I gave them my best German and Italian and my speciality : French with a hint of Punjabi . |
| 28 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 29 | I said to them it was placing the team and the ARFU in a terrible situation and I gave them a 5.30 pm deadline otherwise the tour was off . |
| 30 | 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 . |