Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] give [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hoped she had given Peter the chance to cry , if he had wanted to , but he had not taken it . |
| 2 | She had given Victor the night off , and got Martin a beer and herself a glass of juice from the fridge . |
| 3 | Before they had parted on the Flamingo she had given Ernest the name of the boardinghouse where the Carsons had made arrangements to stay , and he had promised to write to her the minute he and Charlotte arrived at their destination . |
| 4 | Riches : until she had given Luke the money she owed him , paid a month 's rent in advance , redeemed a few things from the pawnshop , bought extra coal for the cold weather , taken Liam to a doctor because something had to be done about his cough ; looked down the bleak distance of the weeks ahead with no work promised . |
| 5 | He sent on Dublin and Mick Norbury and , within 30 seconds of the restart , they combined to give Cambridge the victory which , after four successive draws , took them back to second in the table . |
| 6 | It helped to give Hartlepool the lead , with the move begun in their own area and completed by Paul Baker 's firm header on Paul Dalton 's cross . |
| 7 | He emerged giving Lloyd the thumbs-up sign and Lloyd jerked his head without pausing in his conversation on the future of the British economy . |
| 8 | It reminded him of his own inadequacy ; it made Arabella 's betrayal all the worse ; it had given Newley the courage to think of divorcing Georgina . |
| 9 | He wanted to give Pearson the cue and hear him respond absolutely instantly , sharply . |