Example sentences of "[conj] they gave me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they gave me meat and drink . ’ |
| 2 | I just remember the all-pervading feeling of reassurance that they gave me throughout . |
| 3 | and er I managed to get er do forty odd years and erm now I 'm quite happy on the pension that they gave me . |
| 4 | I think that day that they gave me a lift home . |
| 5 | It was not Diana 's day to lunch so they gave me her secluded table from which to view the proceedings . |
| 6 | IMC could , but there was no legal way to transfer information — so they gave me a virus and I implanted it into the starsuits . |
| 7 | The professors realized that I was doing very important work , and so they gave me my own laboratory . |
| 8 | Yeah called me in two days so they gave me today and tomorrow off as well , so it 's sort of gone longer than I expected you know ? |
| 9 | So when I got back to Boston I thought , ‘ God , there must be a way to do this live , ’ so I called up Lexicon and said , ‘ I 'm this guitar player … ’ and they gave me one ! |
| 10 | I gave them our greetings from Q.P. and they gave me theirs to return to you . |
| 11 | But they were very kind and they gave me a part in this play , it was called Tilly of Bloomsbury . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I 'd been to see my great-aunt 's solicitors in Glasgow and they gave me the keys . |
| 14 | Then I was in the hospital for a fortnight and they gave me Librium and I was really ill at that time . |
| 15 | Not only was Pumblechook 's elbow in my eye , but I was n't allowed to speak , and they gave me the worst pieces of meat . |
| 16 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 17 | ‘ And they gave me the job . ’ |
| 18 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | and I visited their friends and went to their church with them and they gave me a wonderful time , did everything for me |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | place on Sunday and they gave me a meal . |
| 24 | And Ford 's put up a lot of the money and so they wanted their cut from the publicity , and they gave me another award , and their manager in Brighton came to present it . |
| 25 | ‘ If they gave me more money , I suppose . |
| 26 | If they gave me a first , I would go to Cambridge . |
| 27 | I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal . |
| 28 | About two years since they gave me that . |
| 29 | They 'll win that one — 'cos they gave me a fiver . |
| 30 | Before they gave me a bike I had to earn it , I had to work in the garden . |