Example sentences of "[indef pn] gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , this is the real world , ’ I said out loud — too loud actually ; someone gave me a funny look . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | I felt ill and someone gave me some DFs and I felt better . |
| 4 | Someone gave me a pass . |
| 5 | This made me uneasy , and I was glad when someone gave me a glass of white wine . |
| 6 | ‘ Someone gave me one at the First Aid Post . |
| 7 | I howled like a dog , struggling against my captors , until someone gave me a crack across the head and I slipped into unconsciousness . |
| 8 | Someone gave me a microwave oven this morning for nothing . |
| 9 | Well someone gave me a lovely address in erm mm |
| 10 | Apart from given you a B yeah on why it 's just hanging in , must try a lot lot harder , gives me a B and then erm someone gave me a C someone gave me a C and said oh yeah gave me a C yeah |
| 11 | Apart from given you a B yeah on why it 's just hanging in , must try a lot lot harder , gives me a B and then erm someone gave me a C someone gave me a C and said oh yeah gave me a C yeah |
| 12 | No , I did n't , I got the bus part way , 'cos someone gave me some money for the bus . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Correction , someone gave them an early Christmas present . |
| 15 | Most people are accustomed to follow linguistic rules more or less slavishly , but in this case they would be glad to change if only someone gave them a new set of clear rules to follow ( an earlier work by Miller and Swift was subtitled ‘ New Language in New Times ’ : it seems they take the optimistic view that we are living in a postfeminist world ) . |
| 16 | Before he finished writing the book , someone gave him an answer to the question . |
| 17 | Or maybe someone gave him a warning . |
| 18 | To know that she was needed by someone gave her a heady sense of power . |
| 19 | When mum was pregnant , someone gave her a present , a small tennis racket . |
| 20 | She took a painting someone gave us as a wedding present . |
| 21 | Someone gave it to me . |
| 22 | I think someone gave it back because there was something wrong with it . ’ |
| 23 | Someone gave it X , as its input , and it gave you , as an answer , F of X. |
| 24 | Trouble is , if someone gave you icing all the time and no cake , that just sucks . |
| 25 | Same scale on the X and Y. Erm what would be let's say someone gave you this find an approximation for the gradient erm Y equals X squared minus one . |
| 26 | If someone gave you minus four , it would turn that into sixteen . |
| 27 | Nobody asked her to go dancing , and nobody gave her presents . |
| 28 | Naturally , nobody gave us a second look and I had the traffic lights co-ordinated by computer so that we stopped near you just as Sergeant Plod , with perfect timing , gave you an excuse to mace him . |
| 29 | Actually , nobody gave us a second look as they must have presumed I was trying to get inside her knickers . |
| 30 | Actually somebody gave me your name … |