Example sentences of "give [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very occasionally he 's given me tinned stuff and pretty naff it is , too : bland and soft , like something you 'd give a kitten . |
| 2 | All the swims that have given me good dace fishing seemed to have shared similar features , the main one being their tendency to become shallower towards the tail . |
| 3 | ‘ I used to be nervous before big games , but what has happened this year has given me increasing confidence , ’ said Beal . |
| 4 | They 've always given me tremendous support and , when I 've been able to in a busy schedule , I 've reciprocated . |
| 5 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
| 6 | This has given me extra motivation for the rest of the season . ’ |
| 7 | He added : ‘ The Chinese students have given me great hope for the future of China and Tibet . |
| 8 | It has given me great pleasure and pride to have been part of that team . ’ |
| 9 | Now Zain has given me great help and everybody sort of helped er you know I 've discussed it with everybody and we 've almost finished erm a really good proposal I think . |
| 10 | ‘ Wickedly wasteful , I know , but I smashed it , and set up a new one and I have painted upon that new one the first thing that has given me real pleasure for years , oh , years and years . |
| 11 | One who had given me invaluable help in tracking down German sources and participants was a sixty-year-old cultural attaché at the German Embassy by the name of Herbert Sulzbach . |
| 12 | I think this knee has given me early retirement . |
| 13 | Just us , fair and dark , peas in a pod , little and large ( well , I exaggerate here , she 's smaller , more slender ; but then Jeff , he 's given me new trust in my ass ) . |
| 14 | This Church has also given me new faith . |
| 15 | So I went in and told them and they 'd given me wrong sack . |
| 16 | ‘ Only one , ’ said Ken , ‘ and that was n't because I forgot it : it was because they 'd given me bad directions . ’ |
| 17 | Dr Cassidy put forward fairly Burmin 's assertions that gold mining on Croagh Patrick would in no way interfere with the pilgrimage : ‘ I say in all fairness that should planning permission for mining ever be granted Burmin have given me repeated assurances that there will be no interference with the Pilgrim Path , there would be no interference with Patrick 's Peak or that particular part of the mountain range . ’ |
| 18 | My P L C under the Chairmanship of Chester Tabler Mark has been wonderful and the encouragement I have received from seeing the enthusiasm and commitment of the very young Tablers as I purposely invited twenty year old Tablers to be involved in the P L C has given me considerable optimism for the future of Round Table . |
| 19 | This — ’ he waved his hand — ‘ this has given me true inspiration . |
| 20 | The doctors had given me strict orders to keep warm while I was recuperating and there was no heating at all in the house , ’ said Mrs Easby . |
| 21 | During that journey I had only travelled among the Adoimara , and at Bilen they had given me alarming accounts of the ferocity of the Asaimara in Bahdu . |
| 22 | ‘ I have also discussed the situation with the Football League and put the full facts to them and they have given me clear advice . |
| 23 | However I must sink my prejudices and draw attention to those places that have given me special pleasure . |
| 24 | My local police force has given me remarkable examples of young people in the south Wales constabulary area who have persistently reoffended . |
| 25 | That is because we 've given them good service over the past three years . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've given them good service — 130 goals in 140-odd games — and feel good for a few more seasons . ’ |
| 27 | It also must have given them much-needed protection , for the seas at this time were tyrannised by the huge , two-metre-long sea scorpions armed with massive claws which fed on the smaller creatures of the sea floor . |
| 28 | I can write , you know you 've given them middle names , you know , that suitable middle names |
| 29 | Many of the prominent citizens , when their origins can be traced , were drawn from the lesser landed class , who may have given them moral or financial support . |
| 30 | That 's it an approved credit guideline and er that is the problem at the moment that the approved er credit guideline for the non T S G schemes is really insufficient and is having to be propped up er from elsewhere within the budget , your Chairman yesterday met with the er gentleman er the suited gentleman from Bedford and , and er having er given them appropriate cups of coffee er , impressed upon them that the er the one point two was really insufficient for one or two million er , er credit approvals was really insufficient for the needs of Suffolk and er they went away did they not Chairman saying that they er appreciated the point whether you had success or not or perhaps to er wait until December ? |