Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It passed ‘ into great peace with the help of Father Horner an old and saintly monk who gave me absolution and good counsel ’ . |
| 2 | Where they gave me meat and drink . ’ |
| 3 | That gave me meat and drink . |
| 4 | He gave me schnapps and insisted that I stay at the hotel the SS man had mentioned . |
| 5 | Oh , they were very kind , they bought me all the right things , nice toys , I agree , but always there was this feeling , well , obligation , they gave me things but something was always expected in return . |
| 6 | Then I was in the hospital for a fortnight and they gave me Librium and I was really ill at that time . |
| 7 | They gave me bread and milk , and asked my name . |
| 8 | Sensitively and unobtrusively , she gave me love and support , and perhaps in turn , I helped a little to divert the course of her suffering . |
| 9 | BP gave me flexibility and freedom as well as two colleagues , Derek |
| 10 | 'A' was what I needed the most , she gave me criticism and took what I had said to her seriously . |
| 11 | She gave me sandwiches and coffee while I told her of Mrs Zamzam 's flight from the village in 1948 . |
| 12 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ The Options course gave me confidence and the information you could go miles for and never find — like the fact 70 per cent of all jobs are n't advertised . |
| 14 | But it gave me satisfaction and comforted me for much that was otherwise missing from my life . |
| 15 | The church warden gave me sizes but did not ask for reproduction pieces and anyway , he only had a poor and partial photograph . |
| 16 | If Jennie ordered baths to be taken it was William who escorted them , gave them soap and a towel and waited for them to come out . |
| 17 | It gave them space and energy to reconsider what they wanted from life and to make certain changes with confidence . |
| 18 | If Nigel was there she gave them blankets and told them to use the sofa . |
| 19 | Young knights loved him for he gave them pleasure and livelihood . |
| 20 | She always found the supper she cooked for the children irresistible and when she gave them bacon and baked beans she would swoop down on their plates like a vulture on a battlefield . |
| 21 | They returned to Tunbridge Wells via Cheltenham , where Lulu Harrington gave them tea and her fulsome apologies for being unable to remember the full name and address on Beatrix 's fourth letter . |
| 22 | An armed gang of fans of Umtata Bucks surrounded Da Silva 's house in Umtata , ordered him and his family to pack their bags , drove them to the local airport , gave them tickets and cash and forced them aboard a Johannesburg-bound flight . |
| 23 | Pat told them to take what they liked and Carrie gave them linen and other items which were now impossible to buy . |
| 24 | We gave them food and shelter , and in return they worked on our farms , helped tend the flocks , bring in the harvest … ’ |
| 25 | Experience based on antiterrorist operations in half-a-dozen countries from post-war Malaya to more recent Vietnam gave them confidence and authority . |
| 26 | John and Emily sat themselves up to listen , and felt most solemn : but the schoolmaster 's plain reading gave them confidence and Emily 's hand reached out to touch John 's arm . |
| 27 | We gave them codenames and radio frequencies they never got lists out of us . |
| 28 | These structures gave them strength and enabled them to stand several centimetres tall . |
| 29 | Even though it meant that going to fetch the letters gave you scratches and nettle-stings . |
| 30 | It 's part it 's part of your pack Desmond , I gave you papers and you should have in it erm |