Example sentences of "and [pron] gave [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We got settled down in a couple of cane chairs , and I gave her a cigarette . |
| 3 | I told her I 'd be in the Maple Leaf in Covent Garden until about nine , then down in Fulham and I gave her the address of the party and told her to ask for Louise . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | I worked in up there about nineteen fifty or fifty one when I had a dispute with the manager and I gave him a week 's notice . |
| 6 | Today Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him , and I gave him an answer . |
| 7 | We concluded by singing the carol O Come all ye Faithful and I gave them a blessing . |
| 8 | When Victor and I gave them the slip at Victoria station they knew we were onto them . |
| 9 | If every time you picked up the phone and made contact with somebody and I gave you a pound , would you accept that as a deal ? |
| 10 | Do you remember that evening — I had n't been working for you for very long — and you gave me a lift home ? ’ |
| 11 | They showed this to Auntie Lou and she gave them a frame so that they could hang it in their bedroom , but they did n't look at it much . |
| 12 | And she gave her a packet of sunflower seeds . |
| 13 | So I went back to the lady doctor and she gave me a cream and some tablets . |
| 14 | I asked why and she gave me a reply I had n't expected . |
| 15 | Right , the problem is that I ca n't seem to get through on the telephone , I phoned and her secretary came back and said you 've to phone and she gave me a guy 's name like and I got a number for him so I phoned it , ah he works in our Edinburgh office I phoned the Edinburgh office . |
| 16 | Er I said , No , and she gave me a letter to take down there you see . |
| 17 | Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring . |
| 18 | And I said I said so I told her the registration and she gave me the room number but she said . |
| 19 | And she gave him a smile that resembled gratitude . |
| 20 | ‘ I hate to see you going home empty handed , ’ said Madame , and she gave him a package tied like a cake in neatly folded greaseproof paper . |
| 21 | when she , this man was n't very well on , she saw him up at her window and she saw he was n't very well on the other side of the road and she sent down to ask him to come in and she gave him a cup of tea and everything and she was talking |
| 22 | A group of lads talked loudly and one gave me the eye |
| 23 | ‘ Did she come through here ? ’ he demanded of the astonished-looking Chinese family at one of the restaurant 's six plain tables , and they gave him a look of complete incomprehension . |
| 24 | They dressed and lit him against his character — softening where they ought to have emphasised the toughness — and they gave him a part with no verbal bite and no guts but even so it was not a bad first break for the boy from the snooker halls of Port Talbot . |
| 25 | They could have told you what they meant by them and they gave them a currency in terms of their own conduct . |
| 26 | But they were very kind and they gave me a part in this play , it was called Tilly of Bloomsbury . |
| 27 | So I got the tyre off , and I got the spare on , and put the nuts on , and at the end of it , I gave a bow , and they gave me a round of applause . |
| 28 | place on Sunday and they gave me a meal . |
| 29 | and to St Giles and they heard about me and they offered me a month 's holiday and they were complete strangers and they gave me a month 's holiday |
| 30 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |