Example sentences of "[noun sg] gave [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This and his expression of heavy-lidded scepticism gave him more the appearance of an Old Etonian stockbroker than a policeman . |
| 2 | Eventually , though , they got their man , and the wait was worth it because the greatest vocal stylist in rock gave us two hours of inspired Gaelic mumbo-jumbo that was tough , joyful , sometimes sad , but ultimately fluid , festive and free , a celebration , a party for 1,800 delighted fans . |
| 3 | Another monster gave me some fruit to eat . |
| 4 | By-employments such as basket-making , hemp-dressing and wild-fowling gave them additional security . |
| 5 | An American soldier gave us each a balloon and told us that the winner would be the one who could soonest burst the balloon by blowing it up beyond its stretching point . |
| 6 | Alec Home gave him similar advice . |
| 7 | The works of his so-called ‘ pink ’ and ‘ blue ’ periods were being bought by important collectors , and the fact that an established dealer like Vollard was interested in his work gave him additional prestige . |
| 8 | The faint glow on the skyline gave him some guidance , but apart from that , he could n't tell whether he was moving towards the shore , or across the bay , or just circling endlessly . |
| 9 | I 'd spent most of it with the other two , one bad and the other indifferent , now I 'd come across a good one and fate gave us four years together , that 's all . |
| 10 | ‘ I was fortunate in my choice of boat , and my equipment gave me little trouble . |
| 11 | The existing ordinance gave him enough power . |
| 12 | ‘ The Opera London production of A Midsummer Night 's Dream gave me great pleasure , Noye 's Fludde too . ’ |
| 13 | At the end of the EFL training course I did in London , a British Council type gave us all a pep talk before we were packed off to Ankara or Kuala Lumpur . |
| 14 | Land was the basis of Lowther 's county and parliamentary position ; the law gave him added influence and opportunity . |
| 15 | It would have been less harrowing to have got the meeting over quickly ; on the other hand the delay while he awaited her return gave him more time to think and plan . |
| 16 | The city saw much conflict during El Cid 's campaigns , as the ebb and flow of conquest and recovery gave it first a Christian master and then a Moorish one . |
| 17 | The end of the cold war gave us real hopes that the Gulf operation could be the seed , round which a new role for the UN would develop . |
| 18 | My job gave me awkward hours and frequent short-notice travel both at home and abroad . |
| 19 | My choice of topic for this evening 's lecture gave me some cause for hesitation . |
| 20 | This tin of Day and Martins metal polish gave me some trepidation looking at the vast areas of iron ferrous . |
| 21 | He has been accused of being an agent of the CIA , and Ethiopian security gave him 48 hours to leave the country in August 1978 , but no one has found any evidence to confirm these rumours , ‘ I think it 's very unlikely that Ethiopian security would expel somebody on the basis of baseless rumours , ’ White says . |
| 22 | It pandered to their inflated notion of their own importance ; and the restiveness of the working class during this early phase of Russian industrialization gave them renewed hope that they had at last found a willing instrument for their revolutionary dreams . |
| 23 | The latter 's captaincy gave him some pleasant social summers at camps near Brighton but rather less desirable autumn duties elsewhere . |
| 24 | Elizabeth was brave and helped us ; her sweet smile gave us some happiness in the unhappy days after my mother 's death . |
| 25 | This inspiring service gave us new heart . |
| 26 | I like him in that jumper and my friend gave him that . |
| 27 | If a friend gave you this list of reasons why they could not love themselves , what would you say ? |
| 28 | The knowledge gave him renewed confidence , and now the strange bizarre names came to him more easily . |
| 29 | At least she would be sale with Lovat and the knowledge gave him some comfort . |
| 30 | At the boarding school I went to Gwendoline we had a very good punishment for sneaks , all the girls in the sneak dormy gave her one good spank with the back of a hair brush . |