Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave me the inside scoop on the Biggest Wave story : the thirty-five-foot mountain he 'd ridden on 5 January 1985 . |
| 2 | Dennis gave me the vague smile of complicity that men exchange in lavatorial situations . |
| 3 | Quite unwittingly you played right into my hands that night , Aurora — I knew you had n't been taking drugs , but it gave me the perfect excuse for sticking around . |
| 4 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 5 | I met a man in the glen who seemed to know every spot , and gave me the Gaelic names of all the corries . |
| 6 | The mascara , coupled with the face-gleamer , all running in a southerly direction gave me the interesting look of a woman behind bars . |
| 7 | Well when that Joe and Annie got married Joe gave me the little purse with a threepenny bit in . |
| 8 | Sweden 's 7-5 win over France gave them the overall title by virtue of more individual wins , because while France enjoyed victories over Italy and Scotland , the unbeaten Swedes halved their contests against the same opposition . |
| 9 | The pose of the bald egg-shaped heads , the jointed arms stiffly flexed in a parody of benediction , the staring eyes and curved arrow-like lips gave them the hieratic look of a couple of painted deities . |
| 10 | ‘ I liked your family very much , but you deliberately gave them the wrong impression about me , ’ she said angrily . |
| 11 | So I just gave them the statutory amount per tape |
| 12 | So a cat entering your house and being welcomed there gave you the good luck of having the Devil on your side . |
| 13 | ‘ I gave you the wrong impression about our relationship . |
| 14 | He hesitated before her a moment , and then he took her hands and bent his head , and gave her the solemn kiss of kinship ; and before she could draw breath and touch her astonished fingers to her lips , he was out of the paddock and away across the clearing into the trees . |
| 15 | It gave her the uncomfortable feeling of being turned inside out for better examination . |
| 16 | I gave her the bare outline of your problem , Leonora — it was necessary to explain why I wanted an X-ray in a hurry . |
| 17 | Also any that gave her the wrong kind of buzz . |
| 18 | Either he was smiling , or the gaunt hollows of his face gave him the daunting appearance of a smile . |
| 19 | No give but his mark on his last test gave him the final average of fourteen marks for X plus two tests . |
| 20 | I was pleased to see his grin varnish when Mala gave him the vicious edge of her tongue for ignoring the Ardakkean request for discretion , causing the FedPol squad to visit Vadinamia . |
| 21 | Wickham gave him the withering look of a man whose junior reads too many detective stories . |
| 22 | I unzipped the pouch round my waist and gave him the small jar of paint and the sawn-off paintbrush . |
| 23 | And it gave him the halfway lead of 132 , 12 under par . |
| 24 | Ezekiel was bold enough to long for this too , and God gave him the marvellous vision of the valley of the dry bones ( chapter 37 ) as an assurance that the longed-for day would indeed come . |
| 25 | Saturday 's quintet gave him the remarkable tally of 15 wins from the 35 races run on the Flat in Ireland in 1992 . |
| 26 | He eventually came to Madeira where Zarco gave him the large area of fertile land around Madalena do Mar . |
| 27 | I gave him the bad news without preamble . |
| 28 | After all , days before the invasion surprised President Bush , his ambassador , presumably not speaking just for herself , told Saddam in so many words that Washington gave him the green light on Kuwait . |
| 29 | Mr Anderson therefore gave him the Hailing Ferry in perpetuity and set him up in a shed selling chandlery to the barge owners . |
| 30 | Robyn strolled up the shopping mall with its glass and fancy tiles and green lush plants , which gave it the strange appearance of a tropical jungle littered with high-street stores , and considered which one of the high-class boutiques she should enter first . |