Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I did n't go , no , cos Chris int going , so I did n't bother going but I must admit , I mean , when she gave me the papers and what have you that goes with it , I come home , I put it in the cupboard and I 've not even looked at it since . |
| 2 | ‘ All three judges gave me the decision and having watched the video , I reckon I lost only two rounds — the fourth and the tenth . ’ |
| 3 | erm Jane gave me the figures and as I say this division is about forty seven percent . |
| 4 | In the end , my coach , family and fiance gave me the support and encouragement to relax and go back out there and run . ’ |
| 5 | It was the Wester Hailes housing scheme in Edinburgh Pentlands that first gave me the notion that something was up . |
| 6 | " When the Madam gave me the keys and deeds of this house in Easter week , 1916 , she said that it was mine , that she had no further use for it . |
| 7 | My husband gave me the news that my father had died back in the village . |
| 8 | At the time she gave me the impression that she was enjoying the joke . |
| 9 | She gave me the impression that I was an utter bore ( which I probably was ) and something of a freak as well-I was not like my sisters . |
| 10 | ‘ You gave me the right when you accepted my protection , sweetheart . ’ |
| 11 | it was , ten pound , she just gave me the envelope and , it was a printed |
| 12 | Derek , laughing heartily , gave me the key and I let myself in to meet my birthday present . |
| 13 | And the recently discovered structure of atoms gave them the idea that they could make helium out of hydrogen . |
| 14 | Again , these gave them the advantage when it came to the swift ‘ attack-and-run ’ tactics which they frequently employed . |
| 15 | Police were told and tailed Newall but he gave them the slip and fled from Britain on a yacht he inherited from his parents , a court in Gibraltar heard . |
| 16 | I gave them the afternoon and she said , Oh that was lovely Mrs . |
| 17 | Mm well you gave them the size and you checked the size . |
| 18 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 19 | So is n't it about time we gave them the care and consideration they deserve ? |
| 20 | I mean Paul said , with the blokes down in London and he , he ga gave them the pills and sa told them that they go back home and so he did . |
| 21 | In March 1961 the Mirror Group bought Odhams , which gave them the People and 51 per cent of the Daily Herald . |
| 22 | Or he gave them the impression that he wrestled , with limbs contorted , in the effort to seize hold of what truth could be found . |
| 23 | But Rochdale took command from then on , Morgan gave them the lead and then a Flounders penalty making it 3-1 . |
| 24 | She added : ‘ I gave them the bag and then they ran off . |
| 25 | They gave you the message and told you where to go . |
| 26 | Still I think she gave you the sign for we are going out . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes — no doubt she is — but what gave you the idea that I have such a plan in mind ? ’ |
| 28 | Nicklaus took note of Cathy 's instruction , and later gave her the credit when he found himself back to his old form in that week 's skins ' game . |
| 29 | He gave her the rake and she went vigorously at the hay while he plaited a grass rope to put round a burden and heft it down to the byre . |
| 30 | He gave her the name and address , and added , ‘ I 'd take him myself if I was free . ’ |