Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] gave [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 2 | I therefore completed to his satisfaction all the forms he gave me , and I gave him a detailed written description of our proposal , and a revised working drawing showing greater detail , with both of which he seemed satisfied . |
| 3 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
| 4 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 5 | I said to them it was placing the team and the ARFU in a terrible situation and I gave them a 5.30 pm deadline otherwise the tour was off . |
| 6 | She has got in ( and out of ) problems with drugs , alcohol and a quasi-religious cult : ’ I was brainwashed and I gave them an enormous amount of money , ’ she says with a shrug . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ And you gave me the best ! ’ |
| 9 | The little group of guests gathered at the bottom looked marginally startled by her somewhat unorthodox behaviour , and she gave them a lame smile . |
| 10 | The doors to the three lavatories were open and she gave them a quick inspection . |
| 11 | She saw Margaret waiting for her outside her house and she gave her a little wave . |
| 12 | One is she 's very interested in the occult , erm , she actually practices tarot card readings , and what she calls the crystal oracle , and she gave me a brief explanation , which is throwing a load of rocks up a cloth er , but I 'm not going to push me |
| 13 | And she gave me a significant look . |
| 14 | And she gave me the immortal reply , ‘ No , I 'm Heather , but wo n't I do ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And she gave me an indulgent look and she said , ‘ I 'm really sorry , the pictures made me feel tender feelings for you , but they just really did not arouse me . ’ |
| 17 | That gained her immediate attention and she gave him a shocked look . |
| 18 | ‘ Is that your last word on the subject ? ’ he asked coolly , and she gave him a wintry smile . |
| 19 | His self-confidence almost swept her off her guard , but the narrowed black eyes were a warning , and she gave him a small , would-be pitying smile . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ he said , and she gave him a watery smile . |
| 21 | And this wifey come out and she gave him a nasty talking to , chapping chapping on her door with a stick . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's right , ’ and she gave him a warm smile . |
| 23 | The woman 's face brightened up considerably and she gave him a sweet smile . |
| 24 | And she gave him a bleak little smile and put a plate of hot rolls on the table . |
| 25 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 26 | He chuckled and she gave him a light punch on the shoulder . |
| 27 | The computer bleeped at her indignantly , and she gave it a mutinous scowl . |
| 28 | Like all the members of staff , Miss Smith was dedicated to her work and she gave us a fine start in life . |
| 29 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 30 | And they gave him the rowdiest send-off of the campaign . |