Example sentences of "[pron] gave [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I gave them the warmest spot in the garden , against my only south-facing wall . |
| 2 | I gave her the bare outline of your problem , Leonora — it was necessary to explain why I wanted an X-ray in a hurry . |
| 3 | I gave her the best books |
| 4 | I gave him the standard treatment and told him to come back immediately if he did n't get better . ’ |
| 5 | I gave him the same answer I gave you . ’ |
| 6 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 7 | I gave him the bad news without preamble . |
| 8 | Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay . |
| 9 | And then when I gave you the minimum premium er it was like right okay well that 's , that 's the easy way out is n't it , twenty quid a month , okay I might do something for twenty quid because I was n't committed and that 's what exploration of needs is all about and it 's , it 's so easy for me to sit and say yeah that 's what you need to do but putting myself in your shoes , you know , a few years ago |
| 10 | ‘ Those papers I gave you the other evening — ’ |
| 11 | Is the way you go about a task exactly the same as that one I gave you the other day . |
| 12 | Of course you w of course you would Of course you would and it may be that what you will have to say is , Well look , erm I gave you the four per cent on the on the precision types and that that really has to stay , but by the time we by the time we 've done all the analysis on the er on the popular metrics , it will work out that it is is is only two per cent . |
| 13 | ‘ The map I gave you the last time . ’ |
| 14 | Why do you think I why do you think I gave you the fucking job eh ? |
| 15 | ‘ I gave you the wrong impression about our relationship . |
| 16 | So as soon as it began to move back , I gave it the biggest push I could manage . |
| 17 | Furthermore , their ascendancy accompanied the severest phase of the recession , which gave them the added incentive to try something different as some of their own areas were among the hardest hit . |
| 18 | Within fifteen months he secured a reunited Conservative Party , which gave him the longest uninterrupted party premiership between Asquith and Attlee , the final reduction to a rump of the Liberal Party , and a brief , innocuous baptism of power for the Labour Party . |
| 19 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 20 | I wish there was still something to look at which gave me the same feeling . |
| 21 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 22 | Robyn strolled up the shopping mall with its glass and fancy tiles and green lush plants , which gave it the strange appearance of a tropical jungle littered with high-street stores , and considered which one of the high-class boutiques she should enter first . |
| 23 | a derivative of it , which gave you the same high that ecstasy does and er , and if you did n't it from the doctor you could buy it on the street . |
| 24 | Erm , Philip or somebody gave me the level premium . |
| 25 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 26 | But he could justify this because there were other Scots besides Elder , drawn from the ranks of the leading politicians , who gave him the same message . |
| 27 | After all , the chairman of a transport conglomerate which had tipped hundreds of thousands into party funds would not thank a prime minister who gave him the same reward as a Blackpool entertainer . |
| 28 | The pope sent cardinals , the senator of Rome and other nobles to escort him to St Peter 's and at the monastery of St Pancras the king was anointed by the cardinal bishop of Porto and crowned by the pope , who gave him the royal insignia . |
| 29 | Evelyn took up the pen and wrote her name quickly , then looked up at Miss Harker who gave her the briefest of nods and immediately turned her attention back to the rest of the company . |
| 30 | Phrasal verbs come in for more attention with Phrasal Verbs Organiser from LTP ( by the man who gave us the First Certificate Organiser ) , while HarperCollins is publishing a Phrasal Verbs Workbook to accompany its dictionary . |