Example sentences of "they gave [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gave him fortified water to drink . |
| 2 | I gave her one , they gave him two , |
| 3 | He spent the night at their hut , they gave him soft water to wash in , bread and salt and a clean , sweet bed . |
| 4 | all these drugs he 's been having , so they gave him some er tablets and er , he said on Sunday he was in such pain , so he said try these , he has given me some before , but er , you 're supposed to take two and I was only taking one |
| 5 | They gave me two days to decide — two days of hell . ’ |
| 6 | and we will give you a er , two addresses , and so they gave me two addresses and and to reach people at I 've done the job quite well . |
| 7 | They gave me two options , basically one was to take the system down for twenty four hours and er while they got , they caught up with the jobs which I , I , I 've knocked on the head . |
| 8 | About two years since they gave me that . |
| 9 | They gave me that . |
| 10 | They gave me all them extra ones for Baby 's nappies what I never used . ’ |
| 11 | They gave me 26 quid this week but I rummaged through the shed and found a couple of things to stick in as prizes . |
| 12 | it 's not it 's my Walkman , they gave me a Walkman , they gave me twenty tapes , I 'm not joking |
| 13 | I 'd play for them or write out any song they wanted to learn as long as they gave me ten or fifteen minutes worth of scales and exercises first . ’ |
| 14 | So they gave me minute instructions ( enclosed , along with the much-travelled draft , in the foreign-desk-clerk 's handwriting ) about what you should say to them if you can be persuaded to try them again . |
| 15 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 16 | They gave me another flat somebody else had turned down . |
| 17 | And Ford 's put up a lot of the money and so they wanted their cut from the publicity , and they gave me another award , and their manager in Brighton came to present it . |
| 18 | For dinner they gave me three kinds of meat — a square of beef , a triangle of chicken and a circle of lamb . |
| 19 | They gave her some astonishing Ophir crystal that made her feel three metres tall and very sharp . |
| 20 | They gave it double smiles and blank silence |
| 21 | They gave you half-a-crown each for your lunch every day , four old pence for coffee and four old pence for tea in the afternoon . |
| 22 | what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny . |
| 23 | Meantime Berndt gushed with the oil of social graces , pouring her a glass of wine she had no intention of drinking , ( she remembered the Tjerssens as Friend had shown her them , smiling as they gave you ruby venom ) , pouting when she refused his macaroons . |
| 24 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 25 | If they gave you ten sums , you were allowed to get only one wrong . |
| 26 | yeah , they gave you high , what they called a high tea |
| 27 | They gave you these as well ? |
| 28 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 29 | ‘ It did n't cause us any problems , and they gave us 1,200 lempiras ( $300 ) . |
| 30 | Also they had to film the invasion in the dark so they gave us two lamps . |