Example sentences of "i gave [pers pn] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave me a slap and I gave her one back . |
| 2 | I gave him two or three minutes to disappear , then drifted away as the last hearse disappeared . |
| 3 | Well I gave him two when he stayed here to stay er to hang er on his door and he |
| 4 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |
| 5 | In return , I gave him one of twelve tiny mouth-organs that Hohner had given me . |
| 6 | I drew him that , I gave him one of those [ pointing to the jumper he is wearing in the picture ] . |
| 7 | And I gave him one of the street scenes . |
| 8 | " Oh , I gave him one back . " |
| 9 | And everybody says , Well I gave you a hundred , I gave him five , you |
| 10 | Yes cos I gave father the money for whatever it was , so , yeah , I gave him five pounds worth of change |
| 11 | Eventually , I gave him four 3in pots , a bucket of compost , a handful of seeds and some rudimentary instructions , and ensuring peace was wonderful . |
| 12 | I gave him twenty so he 'd have enough . " |
| 13 | Aye , I gave him twenty pound for that |
| 14 | I gave you five pages , yeah but |
| 15 | Colleagues , I gave you twelve thousand eight hundred and twelve reasons for you not only to support by raising your hands , but by actively supporting your fellow members in their fight to retain the Wages Councils and to guard and protect their wages . |
| 16 | So , I gave you two examples and I said that it was often |
| 17 | I gave you two pounds yesterday . ’ |
| 18 | I gave you one of them last time did n't I ? |
| 19 | So if I gave you one pound fifty |
| 20 | I gave you three for the bird box , you got ta deliver me a bird box |
| 21 | Good do you remember a long time ago doing factor trees and I gave you three sixty to do ? |
| 22 | I gave you ten minutes or so of the lesson to look at some words . |
| 23 | He must have liked the sound it made because he gave it another couple for luck ; my courage rising , too , I gave it two more . |
| 24 | The light was fading on the walls of the Imperial city ; I gave it one last look and came , reluctantly , to sit at the table . |
| 25 | I gave it one of its earliest tests on my first trip to Coombe Abbey at Coventry , where I had sixty pounds of bream ( weighed ) and only stopped catching when I ran out of groundbait . |