Example sentences of "gave i [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But last Christmas my grandad gave me eight quid |
2 | Then I met an Arab who gave me 200 francs and my ambition was never to come back to England again . |
3 | On top of everything , he gave me 500 dollars for my twenty-first birthday and it 's this I intend sharing between Jenny and the family . ’ |
4 | Scholl gave me four pairs to take to the Sahara . |
5 | Despite all this he gave me one term to show some improvement , I never really shed the " below average " tag at the Halton style of academy . |
6 | ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’ |
7 | ‘ He gave me twelve months to find him a bigger place , ’ recalled Thomas . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | They gave me two days to decide — two days of hell . ’ |
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 | He gave me twenty pounds . ’ |
13 | it 's not it 's my Walkman , they gave me a Walkman , they gave me twenty tapes , I 'm not joking |
14 | ‘ He gave me twenty dollars when Sheridan shoved me the other evening . ’ |
15 | It gave me 33 mpg . |
16 | Er the butty paid you , you see , out of his tin , what he thought fit and he gave me ten shillings for the first one I done , first day I done , and I told me Dad when I got home , he says , Ten shillings ? |
17 | One fellow gave me ten bob once — he was a tram-driver . |
18 | And when I came ashore — I 'd been there a week — he gave me ten bob . |
19 | Er you get some man come and gave me ten pound for it . |
20 | she gave me ten pound in an envelope and she said this , this is for your trouble . |
21 | Because you gave me ten milligrams and t the five 's not very strong . |
22 | 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 |
23 | Rosalind said it must go tonight , and she gave me three pence for a lolly to stamp it and post it . ’ |
24 | She said she gave me three mugs |
25 | He gave me three games — which I did n't think was a fair chance . |
26 | For dinner they gave me three kinds of meat — a square of beef , a triangle of chicken and a circle of lamb . |
27 | I should say that you should think , well those of us that are healthy any way , we should be glad that our body 's have stood us this length of time and have allowed us to come here to this programme and to take part in it , I 'm certainly delighted that mine 's a , gave me three children , nothing to complain about . |