Example sentences of "[adv] gave [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His success in the competition apparently gave him considerable encouragement as , according to the introduction to his Notes of Thought : |
| 2 | We ‘ book people ’ are somewhat defensive about our occupation of the Church for a long period , so the following incident naturally gave us new confidence . |
| 3 | And she always gave them good measure and did an awful trade . |
| 4 | Reggie seemed genuinely pleased with the idea of a tribute to Joyce , and from that day forth gave me endless friendship and encouragement . |
| 5 | Although Mr Taylor refused to reveal whether or not the Premier League deal is acceptable to him or his members , who yesterday gave him overwhelming support for necessary action , it would be foolish to embark on a strike now . |
| 6 | ‘ The fans who did turn up gave us tremendous support and I know they 'll be back but it would be nice to have an even bigger crowd roaring us on . ’ |
| 7 | Monty Lee and Dick Cleaver both gave me generous references . |
| 8 | He also gave me whole tins of peaches in syrup ; I ate so many that eventually I broke out in a painful rash . |
| 9 | They also gave them general intelligence tests so that they could exclude the effects of variations in intelligence . |
| 10 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 11 | A sort of Celtic Spinal Tap for Teds , it also gave us seminal TV villain Eddie McClockerty , played by the god-like Richard Wilson . |
| 12 | We also gave it top marks for looks . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | so if the experts e actually gave me galloping schizophrenia because on one |