Example sentences of "gave [pron] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he always gave me this bottle |
| 2 | And he always gave me this bottle |
| 3 | ( Jennifer Hornsby gave me this idea . ) |
| 4 | ‘ My lord , I have good reason to know that it was you who said a word for me in his Grace 's ear , and gave me this day for thought , and even offered me arguments I was not wise enough to find for myself . |
| 5 | I said it was about the photographs , but even before I 'd finished talking , he gave me this message from Marius to … you know … to get lost . ’ |
| 6 | I remembered that German lad at er sat at side and I gave of one my gun buttons and he gave me this postcard . |
| 7 | But in 1976 , when Jean Darnall gave me this advice , I knew exactly what she meant and I knew that what she recommended was exactly what I wanted to do . |
| 8 | The passive is one such option in English ( cf. John gave me this book and This book was given to me by John , which are both unmarked ) . |
| 9 | To us it is clear that it was the forms of social organisation in which such evidence was carried that gave them this quality and not the intrinsic nature of the evidence itself . |
| 10 | ‘ He gave them this morning . |
| 11 | Before the easter holidays you gave , I gave you this kind list and I do n't know if you did or it not because I was n't here last week . |
| 12 | Turning back to the landlord , Giles Aplin said , ‘ I already know the name of the man who gave you this watch — but I want to hear it from your lips — and I want the truth . ’ |
| 13 | We gave you this faith believing it was good , but innumerable people have been slain — Julius , Gabriel , Takla Giorgis , Sarsa Kristos , and now these peasants . |
| 14 | and remember I gave you this word , that was suc succours |
| 15 | ‘ Who gave you this knife ? ’ |
| 16 | If a friend gave you this list of reasons why they could not love themselves , what would you say ? |
| 17 | She was always so in control about everything which is what gave her this air of being much older than just twenty-seven . |
| 18 | ‘ The hospital gave her this wig . |
| 19 | I had found out that her name was Miss Vulcan and I gave her this information as well as telling her that Miss Vulcan had a brother named Freddie who visited her and that he was a little old man who wore a black cap on his head and sported a goatee beard . |
| 20 | He wept for joy to hear this good news , when all his social connections ( and at the back of it all , his own father ) never gave him this recognition . |
| 21 | The boy 's foster mother refused to be interviewed , but his real mother gave us this reaction . |
| 22 | No we went in and erm it was about er three or four minutes before we actually started and he just gave us this paper and he put sets of questions to the different types of differentiation |