Example sentences of "gave me [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gave me easy access to glue . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I was fortunate in my choice of boat , and my equipment gave me little trouble . |
| 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 | Despite all this he gave me one term to show some improvement , I never really shed the " below average " tag at the Halton style of academy . |
| 13 | I will return and tell Prince Rainbow that the lung 's guard were foolish and gave me such treatment as one might expect from a crowd of flea-bitten louts . " |
| 14 | The wireless and the cinema gave me such enjoyment that I decided I 'd become an actor , a film star . |
| 15 | I have n't thought of Victoria , whose sexual peccadilloes gave me such pain , for days . |
| 16 | Your faith gave me new life and strength . |
| 17 | Gave me first edition of Alekhine 's Best Games picked up in Delhi . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Reggie seemed genuinely pleased with the idea of a tribute to Joyce , and from that day forth gave me endless friendship and encouragement . |
| 21 | Maybe it was obvious to most people but he gave me recharged confidence in the project . |
| 22 | I have received thy kind letter of February the 19th 1755 , which gave me much satisfaction : and some uneasiness , that so many years have elapsed wherein we might have reciprocally communicated our observations to each other ; and although thee had incomparably the advantage over me , yet , notwithstanding , I love to peep into the abstruse operations of nature . |
| 23 | ‘ He gave me much time and attention but did not allow me to waste a minute ; he left me fully free to express my feelings and thoughts but did not hesitate to present his own ; he offered me space to deliberate about choices and to make decisions but did not withhold his opinion that some choices and decisions were better than others ; he let me find my own way but did not hide the map that showed the right direction . |
| 24 | The loss of my daughter Suzy gave me good reason to do what I 'm doing and I have nothing to lose . |
| 25 | he gave me poor result . |
| 26 | ‘ Those two scores gave me greater pleasure than my hundreds against Glamorgan and Lancashire . |
| 27 | He gave me that nickname because I 'm small with curly hair like a candyfloss stick , and it 's kind of cute . |
| 28 | That 's what well Kevin gave me that slip . |
| 29 | The Hon. Gentleman should perhaps speak to some of his own colleagues who gave me that advice . |
| 30 | ‘ You gave me that line about my mind ten years ago , ’ Emma said . |