Example sentences of "[pers pn] gave me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ E asked me if I 'd go an' look for it , and 'e gave me a quid . |
| 2 | I remember when I first met you at the house of terror ; what you gave me , all that you gave me . |
| 3 | I remember when I first met you at the house of terror ; what you gave me , all that you gave me . |
| 4 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 5 | In a level voice he said , ‘ You gave me to understand that as far as you know there was no woman at the time but your mother . |
| 6 | You were right , Bodo , saying to leave the matter alone — although you gave me a turn when you were so … so abrupt with the Sergeant . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that . |
| 8 | Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that . |
| 9 | For when I was hungry , you gave me food ; when thirsty , you gave me drink ; when I was a stranger you took me into your home , when naked you clothed me ; when I was ill you came to my help , when in prison you visited me . ’ |
| 10 | For when I was hungry , you gave me food ; when thirsty , you gave me drink ; when I was a stranger you took me into your home , when naked you clothed me ; when I was ill you came to my help , when in prison you visited me . ’ |
| 11 | For when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 12 | For when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You gave me a helluva fright , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ Are you sure you gave me a map ? ’ |
| 15 | I seem to vaguely remember you gave me some directions last time . |
| 16 | ‘ Among the few books I took with me into the Desert was The Oxford Book of Modern Verse which you gave me . |
| 17 | ‘ You gave me the fright of my life there . |
| 18 | ‘ If you gave me one square inch of surface , ’ he said , ‘ I could store all the data on all the computer discs produced by IBM last year . |
| 19 | Thanks for the quote you gave me yesterday . |
| 20 | What a fright you gave me ! ’ |
| 21 | You gave me a shock . |
| 22 | ‘ My goodness , yes , you gave me quite a fright . ’ |
| 23 | I flew over copies of that photograph of Tweed you gave me , ’ Morgan reported as he drove the Daimler beyond Exeter towards Dartmoor . |
| 24 | ‘ You gave me the tangerines . ’ |
| 25 | And , Miss Rene ’ — she paused here and put her hand out towards the eldest of the sisters — ‘ you gave me my first book , a book of poems . |
| 26 | ‘ Nellie girl , what a fright you gave me ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ God woman , what a fright you gave me . |
| 28 | For a moment there , you gave me a nasty turn . ’ |
| 29 | After we had drunk the coffee , Kelly said , ‘ Do you notice that I 'm still wearing the blue boots you gave me for my birthday ? |
| 30 | You gave me enough rope for eighteen months , and now … |