Example sentences of "[pron] gave [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | Is the way you go about a task exactly the same as that one I gave you the other day . |
| 11 | ‘ Those papers I gave you the other evening — ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The map I gave you the last time . ’ |
| 13 | Why do you think I why do you think I gave you the fucking job eh ? |
| 14 | ‘ I gave you the wrong impression about our relationship . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I wish there was still something to look at which gave me the same feeling . |
| 18 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Erm , Philip or somebody gave me the level premium . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Hailed as the troubled comic genius who gave us the manic hotel-keeper Basil Fawlty and the Ministry of Silly Walks , he 's also the kingpin of the enduring Pythons and a multi-millionaire businessman . |
| 27 | And she gave me the immortal reply , ‘ No , I 'm Heather , but wo n't I do ? ’ |
| 28 | See the towels she gave me the last time . |
| 29 | There was a slight delay as she read it and then her head slowly turned in my direction and she gave me the biggest grin I 'd ever seen . |
| 30 | When she gave him the second half of S. Kettering 's rent , he put it in his pocket without counting it . |