Example sentences of "[pron] gave [pers pn] the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All he wants to do is to get his hand inside my blouse or up my skirt , but if I gave him the chance to do anything more he 'd be so scared he 'd wet his pants . ’ |
| 2 | I gave him the option to come but explained that he would n't be involved . |
| 3 | He wo n't le , expect you to buy us anything , I gave you the money to spend on yourself you do n't ha |
| 4 | Publication of the Crofting Forestry Handbook follows last year 's Crofter Forestry ( Scotland ) Act , which gave them the chance to plant trees on common grazings . |
| 5 | The buyers rejected them but , before doing so , obtained from an Italian court a sequestration order which gave them the right to detain the goods against payment of damages . |
| 6 | Deliberately nurtured as an élite destined to man the upper reaches of the State , they developed a sense of their own importance and dignity which gave them the confidence to question the conventions of Tsarist society . |
| 7 | Yet far from ensuring loyalty to the status quo , their elevated position developed in them a sense of their own importance and dignity which gave them the confidence to question the conventions of tsarist society . |
| 8 | His works were on a small scale until in 1823 he became engineer for the Difference Engine project of Charles Babbage [ q.v. ] , which gave him the opportunity to build highly accurate large machine tools for his workshop , the best known of which was his large planing machine , built in 1831 . |
| 9 | In preparation for the Congress , the standing parliament , the Supreme Soviet , demanded that constitutional changes be made by the Congress to allow the legislature more control over the government , since President Boris Yeltsin 's emergency powers , granted by the fifth ( extraordinary ) Congress in October 1991 [ see p. 38537 ] , which gave him the right to appoint the government , were due to expire . |
| 10 | In November , he was given ‘ emergency powers ’ , which gave him the right to issue legally binding decrees and appoint people to any government post without reference to the Supreme Russian Soviet . |
| 11 | It was almost a religious conviction he had , and one which gave him the courage to carry out his plans . |
| 12 | He is passionately devoted to the English and American novel : his first remembered literary emotion was provoked by reading Hawthorne 's short story The Minister 's Black Veil , which gave him the ambition to write fiction himself . |
| 13 | Aside from this , there was an invitation to take part in Poll Tax Bingo , an introductory subscription to a new magazine called Torture , Bestiality , Ritual Murder And Game Shows On Cable and Satellite ! and a letter which gave me the chance to send £10 notes to ten strangers . |
| 14 | FERGIE is throwing a Christmas party for the people who gave her the courage to get over her fall from grace in the Royal Family . |
| 15 | ‘ Remember , Alec , the doctor in London who gave me the job did say Koraloona was a living laboratory for the treatment of polio . |
| 16 | The doctor who gave me the medication asked me , ‘ Why did you do it ? ’ and I could n't answer because I did n't know . |
| 17 | You 're being asked erm you told us you rang up the Assistant Chief Constable who gave you the authority to carry out the armed operation . |
| 18 | We could really make this place swing if only they gave us the data to work on , could n't we ? ’ |
| 19 | But nothing gave me the right to say it now . |
| 20 | He gave her the child to hold . |
| 21 | He gave her the chance to enter into a light dalliance but she appeared totally unaware of his subtle overtures , wholly preoccupied in not spilling the beer over the gentleman . |
| 22 | I have looked after his books for forty years and that 's all I know , so he gave me the capital to start and here I am . ’ |
| 23 | But my Bible tells me he gave me the power to receive him and to become . |
| 24 | Some , however , did receive Him and believed in Him ; so he gave them the right to become God 's children . |
| 25 | Surely , do we know if we receive him and believe in his name and he gave us the power to become |
| 26 | It gave her the confidence to go out alone , even though walking was still difficult . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , as usual , except- ’ She stopped and she turned to look at him , but she could n't make out his face in the darkness of the wood , so it gave her the courage to say , ‘ I 'm worried , Charlie . |
| 28 | The familiarity of it gave her the urge to work . |
| 29 | And the certainty of it gave her the strength to smile . |
| 30 | If the racket came right I felt it gave him the confidence to go for the shots . |