Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But last Christmas my grandad gave me eight quid |
| 2 | Tommaso gave me three-quarters of an ingratiating smile and The Fat Controller 's good humour increased by a factor of nine . |
| 3 | Then I met an Arab who gave me 200 francs and my ambition was never to come back to England again . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Scholl gave me four pairs to take to the Sahara . |
| 6 | My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died . |
| 7 | ‘ Bernard gave me four new tyres for my own car as payment but kept saying , ‘ I 'm going to open a big factory one day and have you as works ' manager ’ . ’ |
| 8 | I told him about the defenestration of Ramsey Everett and he gave me five hundred pounds . |
| 9 | She gave me five I think it was . |
| 10 | Erm Betty gave me five I meant . |
| 11 | Well some gave me five and . |
| 12 | And he gave me thirty gave me a ticket right ? |
| 13 | My son gave me one of them years ago . |
| 14 | ‘ If you gave me one square inch of surface , ’ he said , ‘ I could store all the data on all the computer discs produced by IBM last year . |
| 15 | Are n't you ? — and he gave me one of his dry little smiles . |
| 16 | And he gave me one of his really wicked looks out of the corners of his eyes . |
| 17 | Mark gave me one of Sophie 's doorstops — a sleeping fox , and we went down to visit a friend in the Borders with Ethel for support . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This gave me six free months to enjoy myself first . |
| 20 | So if you gave me six as the input , what would I do with it ? |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Bend over , " he said , and gave me six with his Pop cane , a stiff , knotted bamboo . |
| 23 | ‘ He gave me twelve months to find him a bigger place , ’ recalled Thomas . |
| 24 | Well , my thirty pounds seventy gave me sixty , thirty pence or something . |
| 25 | Look Frank gave me eleven out of ten . |
| 26 | He gave me two good reasons for moving to the city . |
| 27 | After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her . |
| 28 | She smiled at me and gave me two small ones and I followed her to their house . |
| 29 | They gave me two days to decide — two days of hell . ’ |
| 30 | Well okay , you gave me two , now what did I give you . |