Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] gave [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on my return to Salamanca Dana gave me strong support , a spiritual courage that entered our love and our poetry . |
| 2 | But in 1976 , when Jean Darnall gave me this advice , I knew exactly what she meant and I knew that what she recommended was exactly what I wanted to do . |
| 3 | The Emmanuel College list gave him minimal information about matriculation and tripos results . |
| 4 | A few quite days by F/L Newton gave me some circuits in the Oxford on the 25th . |
| 5 | At the end of the EFL training course I did in London , a British Council type gave us all a pep talk before we were packed off to Ankara or Kuala Lumpur . |
| 6 | Maud Bailey gave him potted shrimps , omelette and green salad , some Bleu de Bresse and a bowl of sharp apples . |
| 7 | Silkin 's Bill received an unopposed second reading in May ; for the Conservatives W.S. Morrison gave it general support . |
| 8 | The Time-CNN poll gave him 33 per cent support , compared with 28 per cent for Bush and 24 per cent for Clinton . |
| 9 | Nicholson will be glad when he can remove for the last time the putty nose , hairpiece and false front tooth the make-up wizards gave him each day to make him a mirror-image of bully-boy Hoffa . |
| 10 | Dr Reid gave them all a wave . |
| 11 | The January polls gave them 7 per cent of the vote , guaranteeing federal seats . |
| 12 | After that Mr Jotter gave them each a long word typed on a piece of card . |
| 13 | The members walked to the ‘ handsome restaurant erected on the very summit of the Head ’ where Mr Burt gave them all lunch . |
| 14 | Ernest Thesiger gave me that silly corkscrew and I do n't know how to use it . |
| 15 | Mr Chan gave him one of his winning smiles . |
| 16 | Mr Coary gave me some enormous sheets of paper and I began to draw . |
| 17 | Mr Kennedy gave me this . |
| 18 | On March 20th President Chaim Herzog gave him first shot at forming a new government to replace the fallen Likud-Labour coalition . |
| 19 | Stapleton and Sir Charles gave her some money . |
| 20 | The weapons systems gave him some readiness read-outs . |
| 21 | Five and even ten years ago academic librarians were generally aware of the demands and problems of user education in their sector , and the research and development projects gave them little reason to change the fundamentals of their approach . |
| 22 | We were taken into a small chapel and some Spanish border guards gave us hot coffee and bread . |
| 23 | This tin of Day and Martins metal polish gave me some trepidation looking at the vast areas of iron ferrous . |
| 24 | Mrs Gracie gave me some ; he has never paid me a penny . |
| 25 | ‘ Mrs Files gave me some of her talk yesterday . |
| 26 | When they arrived at Beaconville , where three elderly people lived together , Mrs Abigail gave her one dinner to carry but she dropped it while trying to open the hall-door . |
| 27 | I remember Mrs Seaton gave us some mince pies and we ate them hot , sitting on the floor in front of the tree — just the two of us . |
| 28 | ( Jennifer Hornsby gave me this idea . ) |
| 29 | all creatures great and small , all things wise and wo wonderful , the lord God gave them all . |
| 30 | The idea of a Gaullist party had certainly been raised in the aftermath of the liberation — mostly by ex-resisters without a party affiliation — but there is no evidence that de Gaulle gave it any more serious consideration than he had done in 1943 . |