Example sentences of "[pers pn] gave [pers pn] the [adj] " 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 | ‘ Those papers I gave you the other evening — ’ |
| 11 | Is the way you go about a task exactly the same as that one I gave you the other day . |
| 12 | Of course you w of course you would Of course you would and it may be that what you will have to say is , Well look , erm I gave you the four per cent on the on the precision types and that that really has to stay , but by the time we by the time we 've done all the analysis on the er on the popular metrics , it will work out that it is is is only two per cent . |
| 13 | ‘ The map I gave you the last time . ’ |
| 14 | Why do you think I why do you think I gave you the fucking job eh ? |
| 15 | ‘ I gave you the wrong impression about our relationship . |
| 16 | So as soon as it began to move back , I gave it the biggest push I could manage . |
| 17 | ‘ And you gave me the best ! ’ |
| 18 | You gave him the best he could want . ’ |
| 19 | And she gave me the immortal reply , ‘ No , I 'm Heather , but wo n't I do ? ’ |
| 20 | See the towels she gave me the last time . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She gave him the gentle brush-off : how could this boil-necked boyo know Emlyn Williams ? |
| 23 | When she gave him the second half of S. Kettering 's rent , he put it in his pocket without counting it . |
| 24 | She gave him the two packets , each holding five cigarettes , received his fourpence , smiled at him and said , ‘ Thank you very much . ’ |
| 25 | We listened to the hon. Member for Derby , South when she gave us the present status of Beckett 's laws — a pledge to increase pensions and child benefit , to which the new manufacturing package has been added . |
| 26 | If we gave them the five hundred , we wo n't , we are within , having said that , we 're not going to give everybody everything , I do n't think . |
| 27 | Whoops … we gave you the wrong phone number for Xalt Inc last week . |
| 28 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 29 | And they gave him the rowdiest send-off of the campaign . |
| 30 | Not only was Pumblechook 's elbow in my eye , but I was n't allowed to speak , and they gave me the worst pieces of meat . |