Example sentences of "she gave [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was polite , she gave me a small box of chocolates with a thank-you card and kissed me and shook my hand when she came for a meal on Sunday . |
| 2 | Mrs Webster was very understanding about my wanting to team up with Wendy , which was how I put it to her ; and when I left she gave me a Victorian glass inkwell and a brown ironstone plate , because I ‘ liked old things ’ . |
| 3 | Before I left , she gave me a long talk on the re-wiring of her flat and asked if we have old-fashioned fuse-boxes . |
| 4 | She gave me a long discourse regarding the horrors of the Middle Ages , concluding by saying , ‘ Then was much misery in Budapest . |
| 5 | She gave me a sharp look . |
| 6 | She gave me a weak smile and said : ‘ I might as well go to bed . |
| 7 | She gave me a weak smile and a fluttery little wave . |
| 8 | When she saw me , she gave me a haughty stare and carried on meowing . |
| 9 | One is she 's very interested in the occult , erm , she actually practices tarot card readings , and what she calls the crystal oracle , and she gave me a brief explanation , which is throwing a load of rocks up a cloth er , but I 'm not going to push me |
| 10 | She gave me a quick look , softened by a little smile . |
| 11 | I intended to ask the Baronessa Dulcibene why she had come to pay her last respects to this mysterious Englishman but she gave me a glassy look of non-recognition and moved rapidly away with her companion . |
| 12 | I queried it , I mean she gave me a precise figure of twenty thousand , and six hundred and fifty five something or other . |
| 13 | She gave me a winning smile . |
| 14 | She gave me a ninety niner . |
| 15 | Bless the lady : she gave me a large breakfast and then told me she had arranged with a friend who had a car to take me into Lochinver . |
| 16 | When without haste I reached her side , she gave me a sideways glance . |
| 17 | And she gave me a significant look . |
| 18 | He waved to me , but she gave me a menacing glare . |
| 19 | She gave me a prissy look . |
| 20 | She gave me a lovely book on musical composer 's last year which must have cost her a bomb . |
| 21 | ‘ He has left you a cottage in Devonshire , and he said : ‘ Tell her it 's not because she saved my life , but because she gave me a fourpenny cigar . ' ’ |
| 22 | She gave me a puzzled look . |
| 23 | She gave me a little wink , because , of course , they were pointing their telescopic lenses mostly at me . |
| 24 | And she gave me an indulgent look and she said , ‘ I 'm really sorry , the pictures made me feel tender feelings for you , but they just really did not arouse me . ’ |
| 25 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 26 | She gave me an earnest look ; beautifully and convincingly earnest . |
| 27 | And she gave me the immortal reply , ‘ No , I 'm Heather , but wo n't I do ? ’ |
| 28 | See the towels she gave me the last time . |
| 29 | There was a slight delay as she read it and then her head slowly turned in my direction and she gave me the biggest grin I 'd ever seen . |
| 30 | She gave her a tiny push . |