Example sentences of "gave [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But last Christmas my grandad gave me eight quid |
| 2 | Then I met an Arab who gave me 200 francs and my ambition was never to come back to England again . |
| 3 | On top of everything , he gave me 500 dollars for my twenty-first birthday and it 's this I intend sharing between Jenny and the family . ’ |
| 4 | It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago ! |
| 5 | This gave me easy access to glue . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I was fortunate in my choice of boat , and my equipment gave me little trouble . |
| 7 | Well it was good feedback , I mean you told me what was good about it , what was bad about it , and , and you gave me constructive criticism as to how it could be better as well . |
| 8 | Scholl gave me four pairs to take to the Sahara . |
| 9 | I recently had some bad news and everyone helped me through it and gave me great support . |
| 10 | It was something I had never done before and never would again , and it gave me great satisfaction . |
| 11 | This , I must say , gave me great pleasure . |
| 12 | For years I grew the honeysuckle Lonicera japonica Aureoreticulata on a west-facing wall , and its small oval leaves , heavily veined with deep yellow , gave me great pleasure . |
| 13 | It gave me great pleasure to play it with Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic at the Proms , and in Salzburg , Lucerne , Berlin , and Japan . |
| 14 | ‘ The Opera London production of A Midsummer Night 's Dream gave me great pleasure , Noye 's Fludde too . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I never knew whether I should believe that man … but , you know , he gave me great pleasure . |
| 16 | Some of you may not know that you have recently given me two lovely present , the first , for my birthday , being a beautiful flower arrangement which gave me great pleasure , particularly as I live in the centre of London and my nearest ‘ garden ’ is Regent 's Park ! |
| 17 | Despite all this he gave me one term to show some improvement , I never really shed the " below average " tag at the Halton style of academy . |
| 18 | I will return and tell Prince Rainbow that the lung 's guard were foolish and gave me such treatment as one might expect from a crowd of flea-bitten louts . " |
| 19 | The wireless and the cinema gave me such enjoyment that I decided I 'd become an actor , a film star . |
| 20 | I have n't thought of Victoria , whose sexual peccadilloes gave me such pain , for days . |
| 21 | Your faith gave me new life and strength . |
| 22 | Gave me first edition of Alekhine 's Best Games picked up in Delhi . |
| 23 | The Andalo is a well constructed boot designed for the wider British foot , which gave me many miles of trouble-free walking . |
| 24 | ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’ |
| 25 | I had to stand in front of the whole school which gave me ample opportunity to observe the envy on some girls ' faces because knitting for the troops was a popular pastime then . |
| 26 | Brian and Tom asked me to get in touch with people for them ; Tom even gave me long phone numbers for his wife in Beirut and daughters in the States . |
| 27 | After all , you gave me endless opportunities . ’ |
| 28 | Reggie seemed genuinely pleased with the idea of a tribute to Joyce , and from that day forth gave me endless friendship and encouragement . |
| 29 | A helpful , somewhat overstated hotel doorman gave me instant directions , from which I found myself in the shadow of Vine Street facing what seemed to be a series of rear entrances to a rather less than impressive warehouse . |
| 30 | Maybe it was obvious to most people but he gave me recharged confidence in the project . |