Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | This gave me easy access to glue . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I recently had some bad news and everyone helped me through it and gave me great support . |
| 5 | It was something I had never done before and never would again , and it gave me great satisfaction . |
| 6 | This , I must say , gave me great pleasure . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It gave me great pleasure to play it with Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic at the Proms , and in Salzburg , Lucerne , Berlin , and Japan . |
| 9 | ‘ The Opera London production of A Midsummer Night 's Dream gave me great pleasure , Noye 's Fludde too . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I never knew whether I should believe that man … but , you know , he gave me great pleasure . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | Your faith gave me new life and strength . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | After all , you gave me endless opportunities . ’ |
| 16 | Reggie seemed genuinely pleased with the idea of a tribute to Joyce , and from that day forth gave me endless friendship and encouragement . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Maybe it was obvious to most people but he gave me recharged confidence in the project . |
| 19 | The loss of my daughter Suzy gave me good reason to do what I 'm doing and I have nothing to lose . |
| 20 | he gave me poor result . |
| 21 | My job gave me awkward hours and frequent short-notice travel both at home and abroad . |
| 22 | The process of theory taught me how to research , and the substance gave me critical tools . |
| 23 | I nod , as if he gave me useful advice . |
| 24 | On the question of the dinner circuit , in addition to the point mentioned above , I was very fortunate in that my firm at the time gave me financial support for travelling to a number of dinners . |
| 25 | ‘ Gave me financial independence . |
| 26 | But on my return to Salamanca Dana gave me strong support , a spiritual courage that entered our love and our poetry . |
| 27 | ‘ Four different priests gave me conditional absolution before they got me out . |
| 28 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
| 29 | In reply , the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces gave me certain assurances . |
| 30 | He gave me appropriate pills for Michael and departed rapidly . |