Example sentences of "gave [pron] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came down to Riverside with me , watched as we rehearsed then followed me into the loo and gave me a blow job — something I just was n't used to as a 17-year-old grammar school boy still living at home with his mum and dad . |
| 2 | Anyway , one of them told me to stay and gave me a raffle ticket . |
| 3 | He gave me a toy coffin with an effigy of my mom inside it . |
| 4 | DeFries gave me a fur coat . |
| 5 | ‘ You almost gave me a heart attack , Joshua . ’ |
| 6 | They gave me a pethidine injection which just made me feel a bit sleepy . |
| 7 | He gave me a phone number to ring . |
| 8 | I was quite interested in doing the heads ; somebody gave me a plaster head of him , that was all . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd already stretched my credit to the maximum when the bank gave me a cheque guarantee card that was also a credit card . |
| 10 | Not all the congratulatory letters were complimentary , but I 'm just as grateful to those who took me to task or argued with me or lectured me as I am to those who gave me a kind pat . |
| 11 | Someone gave me a microwave oven this morning for nothing . |
| 12 | They gave me a contact name for him — just a brush-off . |
| 13 | It gave me a bowel disorder within the hour . |
| 14 | ‘ They gave me a hand grenade . ’ |
| 15 | I returned it to the centre and exchanged it for another kit which also gave me a zero reading . |
| 16 | ‘ Then they gave me a lumbar puncture and discovered the problem . |
| 17 | The rounded rectangle of my little window on the world gave me a television picture of the site . |
| 18 | Then one day , when our heights crossed , he gave me a garden rake and said ‘ try this ’ . |
| 19 | The experience was a defining period in her life , one which ‘ really gave me a lotta confidence , and helped me come to terms with my womanhood ’ . |
| 20 | When the family arrived for Easter , Mum gave me a Portmeirion tea set which I love , and Dad had found two dining chairs in an antique shop in Castle Douglas . |
| 21 | On the first day Odd-Knut gave me a tobacco tin of worms and told me to keep them warm , and they have travelled the Arctic inside my second layer of clothing ever since , even sharing my sleeping bag at night-time . |
| 22 | Sean gave me a birthday card from my wife Susan and I had my photograph taken to prove that I did wear my ‘ Now you 're 40 ’ badges and socks ! |
| 23 | Cup draw gave them a home tie with Scarborough . |
| 24 | A couple of hours earlier , on a hunch , Hermann Goering rang down to his main office in Carinhall and gave them a Stockholm number to obtain . |
| 25 | Henry VI gave them a court leet in 1451 , which concerned itself largely with the minor social offences common to any medieval town ; poor-quality weaving and leaving dead animals lying about the streets seem to have occurred fairly commonly . |
| 26 | I said I was n't sure , but I gave them a phone number which I knew to be Nassim 's office above a leather warehouse in Brick Lane . |
| 27 | what the ninth years did this year was Rob gave them a pep talk and and there 's a booklet , Choices , he gives out and asks them |
| 28 | Keepers there gave them a bijou penthouse , an extensive garden and pretty soon they 'd sealed their union with a cub : one of very few ever to have been born in captivity . |
| 29 | Brittan was also opposed by the Dutch Commissioner , Frans Andriessen , when investigations were launched into the merger of two Dutch coffee companies , Douwe Egberts and Van Nelle in 1988 , which gave them a 70% market share of the Benelux countries . |
| 30 | However , other chip makers , in producing work-alike processors , decided that more speed gave them a selling point over Intels , and thus 20 and 25MHz 286 chips became common , as did 25 , 33 , and 40MHz 386 units . |