Example sentences of "we gave [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think there is any question about that , and I feel like we gave him a good shot at staying alive . |
| 2 | We did n't want our poor prisoner to get wet , so we gave him a nice yellow raincoat , you see . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought Spartak were a bit lax at the back over there , and let's be fair , we gave them a soft goal . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought Spartak were a bit lax at the back over there , and let's be fair , we gave them a soft goal . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We gave them an early Christmas present . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | When she qualified for Barcelona we gave her a nice bit of sirloin and two turkey drumsticks . ’ |
| 9 | We gave him a drink , we gave him some chocolate buttons , we gave me a big |
| 10 | One day Mary and Reggie will say , Yes , we did try living in a commune , we gave it a fair trial , but we are afraid … |
| 11 | When we gave it a tightfisted 52% in Issue 79 , our main bone of contention was that it was ridiculously overpriced . |
| 12 | Whoops … we gave you the wrong phone number for Xalt Inc last week . |