Example sentences of "my [noun] gave [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My sister gave me a book by this woman Anita something , the one that won the Booker prize , ’ she heard one of them say . |
| 2 | Both the village and surrounding countryside are worth some exploration and I was lucky as my trek gave me an insight into both . |
| 3 | As no temporary accommodation could be found for him in Štanjel my parents gave him a room in our house ; his family joined him there when we left . |
| 4 | I met Franklin in 1934 when my parents gave me a trip to England ; we became engaged in 1936 and were married in 1939 . |
| 5 | So in the end we got a mortgage from a building society , and my parents gave us the money to do it up . |
| 6 | My husband gave me the news that my father had died back in the village . |
| 7 | But my elbow gave me a bit of concern . |
| 8 | As to Maurice , my godmother gave me the money to buy a bit of property when I left Southport . |
| 9 | I have split with my mistress today , my wife gave me an ultimatum — and now this . |
| 10 | Antique furniture , yes , erm , because I 'd bought that during the war in various antique places , you know , and erm , what did we buy , no I think my father gave us the bedroom furniture was , which was at the |
| 11 | My dad gave him the sort of look that only someone declared clinically dead can manage . |
| 12 | But my classmates gave me the nickname Einstein , so presumably they saw signs of something better . |
| 13 | a huge island in the middle , and erm went all the way round , and anyway I , I made a path out of flints from , taken from all the mud , and worked my way round , and then started to plant things , and a hawthorn hedge , bushes and shrubs , and erm my son gave me a boat and I was able to go across to the island . |
| 14 | My mother gave you the calm . |