Example sentences of "[pers pn] gave [pers pn] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She gave me a slap and I gave her one back .
2 ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’
3 " Oh , I gave him one back . "
4 Yes cos I gave father the money for whatever it was , so , yeah , I gave him five pounds worth of change
5 Eventually , I gave him four 3in pots , a bucket of compost , a handful of seeds and some rudimentary instructions , and ensuring peace was wonderful .
6 Aye , I gave him twenty pound for that
7 I gave you five pages , yeah but
8 I gave you two pounds yesterday . ’
9 So , I gave you two examples and I said that it was often
10 So if I gave you one pound fifty
11 I gave you ten minutes or so of the lesson to look at some words .
12 ‘ Well , then , ’ pointed out Rose reassuringly , ‘ you gave them five days ’ warning to get their poison ready , plus another seven days down here . ’
13 Because you gave me ten milligrams and t the five 's not very strong .
14 You gave him ten tubes of toothpaste .
15 You gave us five pages to get in one !
16 Just time to have a little chat about greyhounds with our greyhound man , Mick Weeble ; I think you gave us one winner last week did n't you Mick ?
17 Rosalind said it must go tonight , and she gave me three pence for a lolly to stamp it and post it . ’
18 you see Sister makes all these arrangements , it 's she who does so many of the arrangements , she has made the arrangements about there being no coffee , several people have come to me and said I do n't know why you 've got to stop coffee because we can always go over and have lunch anyway , you know , er after the coffee , but Jean came to me she said look I 'm giving you this , and she gave me three pounds , she said I would much rather that was put into this , there your charity thing than take it across the hall , she said my Margaret wo n't go over there any more , because they , they say , you know , put in for your lunch what it would cost
19 She said she gave me three mugs
20 she gave me ten pound in an envelope and she said this , this is for your trouble .
21 She gave him two goodwill letters addressed to legendary West Indian cricketers Mr Wes Hall and Sir Garfield Sobers .
22 When he left , she gave him two chimney pots , which had previously been on her house .
23 Well she gave us twenty tapes and she said
24 ‘ Marseille lead the group and remain the favourites to go through , but we gave them two goals of a start at Ibrox and still drew with the French on a night when injury prevented us from having Ally McCoist . ’
25 We gave them two addresses to which they could write in case we did not return and told them where our more precious belongings were .
26 They gave me two options , basically one was to take the system down for twenty four hours and er while they got , they caught up with the jobs which I , I , I 've knocked on the head .
27 They gave me two days to decide — two days of hell . ’
28 and we will give you a er , two addresses , and so they gave me two addresses and and to reach people at I 've done the job quite well .
29 They gave me 26 quid this week but I rummaged through the shed and found a couple of things to stick in as prizes .
30 it 's not it 's my Walkman , they gave me a Walkman , they gave me twenty tapes , I 'm not joking
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