Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 2 | ‘ Royal Gait gave me the best day of my racing career at Cheltenham last March , ’ he added . |
| 3 | ‘ Trust yourself ’ she says and gave me the best gift in the universe , one hour of total relaxation . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And you gave me the best ! ’ |
| 5 | Maybe that does n't sound like anything , but I 'll tell you it gave me the strangest feeling I ever had . |
| 6 | There was a slight delay as she read it and then her head slowly turned in my direction and she gave me the biggest grin I 'd ever seen . |
| 7 | ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that . |
| 8 | Not only was Pumblechook 's elbow in my eye , but I was n't allowed to speak , and they gave me the worst pieces of meat . |
| 9 | Of course , I gave them the warmest spot in the garden , against my only south-facing wall . |
| 10 | When asked which of all their various roles gave them the greatest satisfaction , 47% opted for being a mother , 22% simply being themselves , 15% being a partner/lover and just 10% being a working woman . |
| 11 | I gave her the best books |
| 12 | What gave her the greatest satisfaction was the water , now bloodstained by the final , flamboyant exhibition of the setting sun . |
| 13 | To put it another way : when the cat is on heat ( which she has n't been since the vet gave her the unkindest cut of all ) , nevertheless when she was , she had very little time for chasing moths hanging unsubtly round the fridge or cuddling up for a neck scratch . |
| 14 | He gave her the slowest , steadiest smile he could manage . |
| 15 | Evelyn took up the pen and wrote her name quickly , then looked up at Miss Harker who gave her the briefest of nods and immediately turned her attention back to the rest of the company . |
| 16 | And they gave him the rowdiest send-off of the campaign . |
| 17 | You gave him the best he could want . ’ |
| 18 | The creation of the Educational Priority Areas was one of the last things which Tony Crosland accomplished at the Department of Education and Science , and one of those that gave him the greatest pleasure . |
| 19 | It was such a desultory question that Ruth gave him the filthiest look she could muster . |
| 20 | Never gave him the slightest hint . ’ |
| 21 | She accepted , and the picture of precocious , and faintly absurd depravity she presented , in her old , handed down dressing-gown , with her feet tucked up under her , her lank auburn hair about her face , and the cigarette cocked flamboyantly between the fingers of her left hand , gave him the keenest pleasure . |
| 22 | Within fifteen months he secured a reunited Conservative Party , which gave him the longest uninterrupted party premiership between Asquith and Attlee , the final reduction to a rump of the Liberal Party , and a brief , innocuous baptism of power for the Labour Party . |
| 23 | The bookies gave him the tightest odds of any of the outgoing MPs , but he was still two-to-one on to win . |
| 24 | You never gave it a slightest thought . |
| 25 | So as soon as it began to move back , I gave it the biggest push I could manage . |
| 26 | He made such a fine job of the earth , the sea and the hills ; He made an equally fine job of the creatures , large and small that run around on the land ; He even gave us the best crags in the world … |
| 27 | I shall not follow the hon. Member for Newry and Armagh ( Mr. Mallon ) who spoke about Ireland , because I am not qualified to do so , except to say that Ireland recently gave us the best rugby match in the world cup . |