Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once she saw , sitting on the pavement before a café , drinking pale green drinks , and embracing , leaning over from their plastic chairs towards each other and embracing , the most beautiful couple ; the man with a face angular and ravaged and tragic , the girl dark and thin , with pale lips in a dark tan face : and she was so moved that she said , aloud to Rosie who was walking with her , " Look , Oh God , look at those lovely people " : and Rosie looked and stared and laughed and said , " Good Lord , what odd ideas you have , I would n't look like that if you gave me a hundred pounds . " |
| 2 | He gave me a ten bob note and a bag of tomatoes . |
| 3 | Your mum gave me a ninety niner and a |
| 4 | She gave me a ninety niner . |
| 5 | Last time they met , Craig Maskell gave them a 1-0 win on a plate . |
| 6 | Scarborough booked a fourth round tie against either Derby or Arsenal when second-half goals from Tommy Mooney and Andy Mockler gave them a 2–1 win over Plymouth . |
| 7 | The Green Bay Packers kept alive their play-off bid when Brett Favre 's six-yard pass to Sterling Sharpe late in the game gave them a 16-14 win at the Houston Oilers . |
| 8 | they gave them a three year trial period , to see how attractive they could make the service . |
| 9 | Time was when the South West would be filled with Gloucester boys … only two Paul Holford and Dave Sims made it on Saturday and there was nothing they could do in the first half to stop the north from taking control … a try from Jim Mallinder gave them a 13-6 lead at half-time … |
| 10 | Mr Recorder Shaun Spencer gave him a nine months suspended prison sentence . |
| 11 | Culley gave him a ten dollar bill . |
| 12 | Doctors at Leeds General Infirmary gave him a one-in-ten chance of living . |
| 13 | I mean we used to go about three times four times did n't we and we oh I bet every time we went she gave him a twenty packet of number ten . |
| 14 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 15 | Daniel Stoneman has defied the doctors who gave him a one-in-10 chance of survival from a rare brain tumour . |
| 16 | They gave it a thousand letters they gave it money |
| 17 | They gave us a thousand pound , that is really very important , I think , and we 're most grateful . |