Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I met an Arab who gave me 200 francs and my ambition was never to come back to England again . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | Scholl gave me four pairs to take to the Sahara . |
| 5 | The Andalo is a well constructed boot designed for the wider British foot , which gave me many miles of trouble-free walking . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | After all , you gave me endless opportunities . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ He gave me twelve months to find him a bigger place , ’ recalled Thomas . |
| 10 | My job gave me awkward hours and frequent short-notice travel both at home and abroad . |
| 11 | The process of theory taught me how to research , and the substance gave me critical tools . |
| 12 | They gave me two options , basically one was to take the system down for twenty four hours and er while they got , they caught up with the jobs which I , I , I 've knocked on the head . |
| 13 | and we will give you a er , two addresses , and so they gave me two addresses and and to reach people at I 've done the job quite well . |
| 14 | They gave me two days to decide — two days of hell . ’ |
| 15 | In reply , the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces gave me certain assurances . |
| 16 | He gave me appropriate pills for Michael and departed rapidly . |
| 17 | Afterwards he gave me signed copies of two of his books , ‘ Write your name clearly on this piece of paper . |
| 18 | So they gave me minute instructions ( enclosed , along with the much-travelled draft , in the foreign-desk-clerk 's handwriting ) about what you should say to them if you can be persuaded to try them again . |
| 19 | He gave me twenty pounds . ’ |
| 20 | it 's not it 's my Walkman , they gave me a Walkman , they gave me twenty tapes , I 'm not joking |
| 21 | ‘ He gave me twenty dollars when Sheridan shoved me the other evening . ’ |
| 22 | Monty Lee and Dick Cleaver both gave me generous references . |
| 23 | Then , like a host who becomes most animated when his guests are leaving , this leader of the campaign against garrulousness gave me succinct directions to Old Aberdeen . |
| 24 | I looked at Jean-Claude as he gave me these instructions and I saw a side of him I did not recognize . |
| 25 | Especially as I went in and he gave me those brochures . |
| 26 | Sir : Gail Counsell 's article ( 'When living over the shop pays dividends ' , 30 September ) gave me nostalgic memories of the advantages of this way of living 50 years ago . |
| 27 | Er the butty paid you , you see , out of his tin , what he thought fit and he gave me ten shillings for the first one I done , first day I done , and I told me Dad when I got home , he says , Ten shillings ? |
| 28 | Because you gave me ten milligrams and t the five 's not very strong . |
| 29 | TBD gave me enough pens to make a significant impact on this year 's office stationery allocation ; they also gave me a useful laundry bag , as did Bertrams . |
| 30 | It got more painful — so I went to a different doctor , who said it was an infected sebaceous cyst and gave me stronger antibiotics . |