Example sentences of "gave i a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Near me , in a white open-necked shirt with short sleeves was a stocky , rather wooden-looking man , who gave me a rather uncomfortable feeling of only being at the party because he had to be . |
| 2 | ‘ Your note arrived this morning , ’ she went on , ‘ and it gave me a rather interesting idea . |
| 3 | She gave me a little frank talk about life in the trenches during the 1914 War and then suddenly asked : ‘ What about that murder ? |
| 4 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 5 | He gave me a faintly hurt look then , smiled and said , you must leave me some loophole . |
| 6 | Incidentally , he gave me a very nice parting gift — two hundred and fifty pounds . ’ |
| 7 | Frank Bloomfield worked most of his life with Ransome , Sims and Jefferies the famous Ipswich firm of agricultural engineers ; and he gave me a very modern illustration of this quality of a serrated edge . |
| 8 | ‘ It obviously gave me a very good grounding and without it , I would n't be where I am today . |
| 9 | This single episode gave me a very good picture of Harold Wilson 's qualities and defects . |
| 10 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 11 | The man was perfectly cool , but he gave me a very evil look , which made me feel sick in my stomach . |
| 12 | It all began when I won New Faces , but it gave me a very big head . |
| 13 | is much more of a go down in colour , erm so I think probably if I 'd seen her , er prints I maybe I would of approached this erm differently , erm it gave me a very immense voice about crowds , erm , very , very different from the front of the picture apart from the alarm registered in the eyes of the , of the old woman erm , this is called Even Paradise Has Its End , sorry Even Paradise Has Its Price , sorry Ours in the night laying between sleep and arousal held in balance , fragile as dust on a scale , night spirit 's sit easy , in no hurry , even paradise has its price , would you like me to read that one again ? |
| 14 | Thank you to the person who arrived unknowingly on my doorstep and gave me a really sympathetic cuddle while I cried for 10 minutes ( ? ) in relief that I had misunderstood the doctor . |