Example sentences of "and [pers pn] gave me " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ E asked me if I 'd go an' look for it , and 'e gave me a quid . |
2 | Do you remember that evening — I had n't been working for you for very long — and you gave me a lift home ? ’ |
3 | ‘ And you gave me the best ! ’ |
4 | ‘ And you gave me everything , my beautiful Maggie . |
5 | ‘ And you gave me my strategy , ’ he said softly . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Yeah sir , I just missed out one word and you gave me two . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Rosalind said it must go tonight , and she gave me three pence for a lolly to stamp it and post it . ’ |
11 | And she gave me a significant look . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | PEP Guide editor Roz Barder is closer to the market than most , and she gave me her views on what to follow in 1993 . |
14 | I asked why and she gave me a reply I had n't expected . |
15 | 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 . ’ |
16 | And she gave me the immortal reply , ‘ No , I 'm Heather , but wo n't I do ? ’ |
17 | We talked and prayed to God , and she gave me her letter to her son , James . |
18 | Er I said , No , and she gave me a letter to take down there you see . |
19 | Mrs Chamberlin has more than a dozen and she gave me such beautiful eggs to bring home . |
20 | So I went back to the lady doctor and she gave me a cream and some tablets . |
21 | 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 |
22 | And I said I said so I told her the registration and she gave me the room number but she said . |
23 | 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 |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 |
27 | 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 ! |
28 | I gave them our greetings from Q.P. and they gave me theirs to return to you . |
29 | But they were very kind and they gave me a part in this play , it was called Tilly of Bloomsbury . |
30 | 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 . |