Example sentences of "and [pron] gave me " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this was London at last , and nothing gave me more pleasure than strolling around my new possession all day . |
| 2 | I felt ill and someone gave me some DFs and I felt better . |
| 3 | ‘ E asked me if I 'd go an' look for it , and 'e gave me a quid . |
| 4 | Do you remember that evening — I had n't been working for you for very long — and you gave me a lift home ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And you gave me the best ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And you gave me everything , my beautiful Maggie . |
| 7 | ‘ And you gave me my strategy , ’ he said softly . |
| 8 | Well it was good feedback , I mean you told me what was good about it , what was bad about it , and , and you gave me constructive criticism as to how it could be better as well . |
| 9 | Yeah sir , I just missed out one word and you gave me two . |
| 10 | And who gave me that Right ? ’ |
| 11 | After tea we would sometimes walk round their garden , and she gave me tips on gardening which have since stood me in good stead ; and cuttings , which still bring her to my mind . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Rosalind said it must go tonight , and she gave me three pence for a lolly to stamp it and post it . ’ |
| 14 | And she gave me a significant look . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | PEP Guide editor Roz Barder is closer to the market than most , and she gave me her views on what to follow in 1993 . |
| 17 | I asked why and she gave me a reply I had n't expected . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | And she gave me the immortal reply , ‘ No , I 'm Heather , but wo n't I do ? ’ |
| 20 | We talked and prayed to God , and she gave me her letter to her son , James . |
| 21 | Er I said , No , and she gave me a letter to take down there you see . |
| 22 | Mrs Chamberlin has more than a dozen and she gave me such beautiful eggs to bring home . |
| 23 | So I went back to the lady doctor and she gave me a cream and some tablets . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | And I said I said so I told her the registration and she gave me the room number but she said . |
| 26 | you see Sister makes all these arrangements , it 's she who does so many of the arrangements , she has made the arrangements about there being no coffee , several people have come to me and said I do n't know why you 've got to stop coffee because we can always go over and have lunch anyway , you know , er after the coffee , but Jean came to me she said look I 'm giving you this , and she gave me three pounds , she said I would much rather that was put into this , there your charity thing than take it across the hall , she said my Margaret wo n't go over there any more , because they , they say , you know , put in for your lunch what it would cost |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | yeah , I got f I got , my total marks I could 've got was fifty eight and I got fifty four and she gave me a C and she said must improve your marks . |
| 29 | Well I 'll never forget when we were younger , we had erm some Americans living across the road and they invited us er somehow I was in the kitchen , they were going to give me lunch and she gave me the most enormous |
| 30 | A group of lads talked loudly and one gave me the eye |