Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] give [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually there 's Paul , the guy who 'd given me a lift to the concert and , and he mentioned going to the , the film I saw , erm but I knew he was going to the pub , he always goes to the pub afterwards . |
| 2 | I was quite prepared to do this journey alone , but my mother , who had given me every encouragement although well aware of the risks I was running , insisted I should take a companion . |
| 3 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |
| 4 | Fabia went to bed that night having seen nothing of the man who had given her a lift , but with other more important issues rising to the surface . |
| 5 | Her uncle was a slaughterman who had given her an animal on its way to the abattoir . |
| 6 | She glanced across to Raynor again , and saw him bow his head in brief acknowledgement , and she smiled inwardly , for it was Raynor who had given her the clue , the idea , the knowledge of how to approach his people . |
| 7 | Jenny was the girl she lived with , and the one who had given her the impetus to finally escape the suffocating love of her father and uncle in Hong Kong . |
| 8 | They were married in February 1949 and Daphne Rye , who had given them the reception , encouraged Sybil to move into Pelham Crescent . |
| 9 | He was questioned about his earlier activities , and told his interrogators that he had been encouraged in his attack on royal policies by Catherine 's confessor , Father William Peto , and by John Fisher , bishop of Rochester [ qq.v. ] , who had given him a tract he had written about papal primacy . |
| 10 | Her face seemed familiar , but it was some time before he realized that she was the curly-haired bit who had given him the slip some months back . |
| 11 | The fan who had given him the pen had had L. M. inscribed on it . |
| 12 | ‘ If it is n't Miss Cornflower , the lady who refused to give me a lift . ’ |
| 13 | He turned up unannounced one day , during a break from a television appearance , with a minder who wanted to give him a taste of real working-class London . |