Example sentences of "gave [pron] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they gave me a first , I would go to Cambridge . |
| 2 | They gave me a first . |
| 3 | Donna gave me a last dazzling smile , then , apparently impervious to McIllvanney 's evil-tempered scorn , clicked away on her ridiculously high heels . |
| 4 | At the door he turned and gave me a last despairing look and I saw him no more . |
| 5 | I may have made an unconscious movement towards him because he gave me a last malevolent grin and disappeared into the crowd . |
| 6 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 7 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 8 | Then they brought in a couple of supporting interrogators and gave me the third degree . |
| 9 | See the towels she gave me the last time . |
| 10 | City had not won a League game at Portman Road for 30 years , and had not scored in their last seven visits , but the jinx looked to have come to an end when Gary Flitcroft 's first senior goal for the club gave them a 37th minute lead . |
| 11 | Ponies tacked up in the pony lines yawned with boredom as their owners gave them a last polish . |
| 12 | He tended to the people while they were dying , gave them the Last Rites and everything , buried them . |
| 13 | Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay . |
| 14 | ‘ The map I gave you the last time . ’ |
| 15 | gave you the last laugh . |
| 16 | It was a very helpful preparation and gave her a first real taste of teaching . |
| 17 | She passed several men , but none gave her a second glance . |
| 18 | I doubt he gave her a second thought , once he 'd pulled his trousers back on and ushered her into the first available taxi . |
| 19 | On the morning of the funeral , he gave her a last farewell kiss as she lay in her coffin . |
| 20 | He said nothing more , merely gave her a last withering look before moving away . |
| 21 | I well remember the long watches of the night when I and my baby struggled to overcome a physical incapability on my part , and I can not begin to tell you the relief on both sides when I strode out of the house , bought the largest tin of baby food I could find , and gave her the first square meal she had had since birth . |
| 22 | A few people were waiting and one of them called out angrily as Joe stepped in ahead of them all , but he gave him a one-second blast of his sub-zero gaze and said , ‘ Police business , ’ and then he turned his back and forgot the man completely . |
| 23 | As a result , despite his good looks and affable personality , women scarcely gave him a second glance . |
| 24 | Nowadays , she probably never even gave him a second thought . |
| 25 | At his christening his mother gave him a second forename , ‘ Arthur ’ , which he did not like and never used . |
| 26 | Selim shook hands again and gave him a second look . |
| 27 | I just ca n't see why the system gave him a second chance . |
| 28 | Charlie parted with a penny and was handed a bagful , but no one even gave him a second glance . |
| 29 | At special stage 20 , the valiant 24-year-old Scot gunned his accelerator as the marshals gave him a five-second countdown . |
| 30 | Inevitably , writing for the Cornhill gave him a first experience of the restrictions imposed on authors by the readers of quality magazines , but for the time being he was happy to compromise in the interests of his career . |