Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recently had some bad news and everyone helped me through it and gave me great support . |
| 2 | It was something I had never done before and never would again , and it gave me great satisfaction . |
| 3 | This , I must say , gave me great pleasure . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It gave me great pleasure to play it with Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic at the Proms , and in Salzburg , Lucerne , Berlin , and Japan . |
| 6 | ‘ The Opera London production of A Midsummer Night 's Dream gave me great pleasure , Noye 's Fludde too . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I never knew whether I should believe that man … but , you know , he gave me great pleasure . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | ‘ Those two scores gave me greater pleasure than my hundreds against Glamorgan and Lancashire . |
| 10 | Local authorities assumed something like their present form after the Local Government Act of 1888 , which gave them greater powers to raise funds and pass by-laws . |
| 11 | In fact , the anomalous status gave him greater leeway . |
| 12 | Under his guidance , Parliament House was transformed from a nineteenth-century warren into a modern court-house and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to explore , and share with others , its secrets and treasures . |
| 13 | Gwynn Jones received many other honours but none gave him greater pleasure than the publication of a selection of his poems , Detholiad o Ganiadau , by the Gregynog Press in 1926 , and the de luxe edition , issued in 1932–7 by Hughes & Son , Wrexham , of six volumes of selected poems and essays . |
| 14 | Though the business was thriving , there was one aspect that gave him great concern and over which he was powerless to exercise any sort of control . |
| 15 | It gave him great pain to look at her face . |
| 16 | The education chairman , Tom Farrell , said the cuts gave him great pain , but services would be affected worse if the Scottish Office stepped in to reduce spending . |
| 17 | Woolley swung into a second chorus , and gave it greater volume . |