Example sentences of "[pers pn] gives [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matt put in , ‘ Departing guests pay their accounts at the office , where she gives them a receipt , and Ling takes his list of commodities to her — things to be ordered for the kitchen , you understand . ’ |
| 2 | The corporation is like a vast pregenital mother who gives her brood security and nourishment , but who loves the eldest and the strongest ( the top executives ) best , since she gives them the most . |
| 3 | I hope she gives him a right going over . ’ |
| 4 | She gives him a snack ( line 15 ) . |
| 5 | She gives him a tin of Coke ( line 32 ) . |
| 6 | She gives him a tight smile and wrinkles her nose . |
| 7 | She gives him a filthy look . |
| 8 | She gives him the chips and he says , ‘ Oh , and A Fish Called Wanda . ’ |
| 9 | Similarly , since most men like to be seen to do the paying it is a tactful precaution if , at the start of the evening out , she gives him the theatre tickets " to take care of " … |
| 10 | a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent . |
| 11 | She gives me a little smile and I feel a bit better . |
| 12 | Because I am 84 and live alone , she also pops in every morning and evening to ensure I am all right , and she gives me a bath once a week . |
| 13 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 14 | She gives me a valium . |
| 15 | She gives me a lot of stick for it . |
| 16 | So I see her on leaves , and she gives me every so often a new MCC tie ! ’ |
| 17 | I would n't say she gives me an ecstatic welcome . |
| 18 | ‘ The wave is my lover and she gives me the ultimate orgasm . ’ |
| 19 | As I had requested , I had Pauline for massage ; I always find she gives me the best massage I have anywhere in the world . |
| 20 | She has n't , of course , but she gives me the landlord 's name . |
| 21 | Lisa , her Mum gives her about every Saturday she gives her a tenner , but if she 's going out she gets a lot of money right . |
| 22 | She gives her an energetic push , backwards , into the sitting-room . |
| 23 | She gives us a cup of tea at the kitchen table . |
| 24 | It 's not only in the dialogue that Harper Lee expresses the tension between the blacks and whites , but all through the book in her description of where people live , where they work , the churches they go to and her detailed description of the court room and how the black community sit on the balcony above , away from the whites , she gives us a vivid idea of the way life was in the 1930 's and sets the scene well . |
| 25 | ‘ Arnold left her all the money in the world and she gives us the sort of barbecue we threw for our friends in Haywards Heath . ’ |
| 26 | When a length has been rigged between one radial cable and another , she gives it a twang with one of her legs and the glue breaks up into a line of beads . |
| 27 | As a consequence of nos 2 , 3 , 4 , she gives you a T-shirt with Have You Met Jesus To-Day ? printed on the front . |
| 28 | She gives you a tour of that painting in cheerful detail , noting with satisfaction that she had managed to achieve in part of the backdrop the right kind of ‘ girny ’ blue . |
| 29 | She gives you a better ground , ground cover |
| 30 | She 's going she 's looking at you and you go , come here , you take a step further and she gives you a dirty look and then she waits until you 're that close and then she jumps ! |