Example sentences of "[noun] gave [pers pn] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , though , they got their man , and the wait was worth it because the greatest vocal stylist in rock gave us two hours of inspired Gaelic mumbo-jumbo that was tough , joyful , sometimes sad , but ultimately fluid , festive and free , a celebration , a party for 1,800 delighted fans . |
| 2 | I 'd spent most of it with the other two , one bad and the other indifferent , now I 'd come across a good one and fate gave us four years together , that 's all . |
| 3 | Mr Chan gave him one of his winning smiles . |
| 4 | Look Frank gave me eleven out of ten . |
| 5 | Radl gave him twenty thousand pounds for taking part in Operation Eagle . |
| 6 | He has been accused of being an agent of the CIA , and Ethiopian security gave him 48 hours to leave the country in August 1978 , but no one has found any evidence to confirm these rumours , ‘ I think it 's very unlikely that Ethiopian security would expel somebody on the basis of baseless rumours , ’ White says . |
| 7 | Tommaso gave me three-quarters of an ingratiating smile and The Fat Controller 's good humour increased by a factor of nine . |
| 8 | A penalty in the opening minutes of their game last October gave them 3 points , or perhaps it was goalkeeper , Nicky Hammond who saved the 3 points . |
| 9 | At the boarding school I went to Gwendoline we had a very good punishment for sneaks , all the girls in the sneak dormy gave her one good spank with the back of a hair brush . |
| 10 | Lyn gave him two pounds . |
| 11 | ‘ Schnabel gave me three of his paintings , ’ says Banderas . |
| 12 | Thinking of badness gave her one of her ideas . |
| 13 | The Woman gave him one look and then switched off the light and Doyle settled himself in the chair and sat silently in the shadows . |
| 14 | Scholl gave me four pairs to take to the Sahara . |
| 15 | Barclay 's father gave him 9,000 Scottish merks ( £500 ) to start on a mercantile career . |
| 16 | The girl behind the counter gave him eight £1 coins . |
| 17 | James 's victory gave him 35 points to Lauda 's 61 , his car was clearly among the best , he had matured greatly as a driver , he was on a good roll himself : the championship seemed to be there for his taking . |
| 18 | He never left the centre circle but the People reporter gave him nine out of ten and he deserved it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The Witch gave us one promise . |
| 20 | Well , at its annual conference the N U J gave us one hundred percent backing and carried on its support for us . |
| 21 | Doctors gave him six months to live if he did n't quit drinking . |
| 22 | The doctors gave him two years to live . |
| 23 | When he was aged eleven , doctors gave him ten years to live . |
| 24 | Another , however , jogged his memory : ‘ Coleby gave me 10s for my old penknife — very massive profit ! ’ |
| 25 | Now he worked in offices of the Gas Board , and was studying accountancy , mostly at night , though the Board gave him one day off each week to attend classes . |
| 26 | ‘ Bernard gave me four new tyres for my own car as payment but kept saying , ‘ I 'm going to open a big factory one day and have you as works ' manager ’ . ’ |
| 27 | The media was not interested : the New York Times gave it two paragraphs ; Life and Look magazines turned down the excellent investigative article by Washington freelance journalist Seymour Hersh , and the big news organisations failed to follow up tips about the case . |
| 28 | Then Maeve hugged their surviving son , five-year-old John , and Garry gave him three loving kisses . |
| 29 | Harvey gave him one of those Sorbo-rubber helmets that paratroops wear on practice drops . |
| 30 | Her Mum give , her Mum gave her thirty pounds one Saturday , for nuffink right . |