Example sentences of "[conj] gave [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 2 | It was the Royal College for the Blind at Hereford that gave him new inspiration by teaching him how to sculpt . |
| 3 | Though the business was thriving , there was one aspect that gave him great concern and over which he was powerless to exercise any sort of control . |
| 4 | That night he slept in an old cardboard box that he 'd found , and that gave him some protection from the chilling morning dew . |
| 5 | There were fairly obvious warnings here for a man contemplating the future independence of his own country , but , if he was shocked by what he saw here , it was the land freed by Toussaint Louverture , Haiti , that gave him most food for thought . |
| 6 | Recently , TCS entered into an agreement with Lotus Development Corporation that gave them exclusive distribution rights for the whole range of Recently there was uproar in India following ‘ body shopping ’ by American software firms . |
| 7 | Before entering battle , the warriors stripped to breech-cloth and moccasins , some donning war-bonnets , then prepared their medicine bundles and applied sacred body paint to invoke the Wyakin medicine powers that gave them supernatural protection . |
| 8 | Somehow if I could only know what he was doing and who he was seeing , that gave me some kind of control over the situation . |
| 9 | It was what was within the bird the force that gave it such power , such vitality . ’ |
| 10 | Nonetheless , it was British fears that began the process of creating a political group ( rather than a religious one ) , and British political tactics to safeguard their continued power that gave it national significance . |
| 11 | She began to tremble , but although he must surely have known that she was not enjoying what he was doing , he said and did nothing to reassure her , nor gave her any sign of love or affection . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's what Gaston said , ’ replied the fräulein with a glance at her escort , who nodded sympathetically , and gave her another squeeze . |
| 13 | But Finn came and sat beside her and gave her another cream bun , which she accepted gladly as a token of friendship , although she did not want it . |
| 14 | It has a thirty-five-foot living-room , with — mouth open — ’ Vitor ordered , and gave her another piece of chocolate ‘ — a flight of three steps up to a generously sized dining area . |
| 15 | Adam stood up and gave her another hug . |
| 16 | He agreed , and gave her some ointment . |
| 17 | I recently had some bad news and everyone helped me through it and gave me great support . |
| 18 | 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 . " |
| 19 | ‘ My lord , I have good reason to know that it was you who said a word for me in his Grace 's ear , and gave me this day for thought , and even offered me arguments I was not wise enough to find for myself . |
| 20 | ‘ At the hospital , the registrar said , ‘ No , it 's a sebaceous cyst , and we would n't normally operate , but since you are worried we 'll cut it out , ’ and gave me local anaesthetic . |
| 21 | Er you get some man come and gave me ten pound for it . |
| 22 | Somebody told me we were halfway to Maun and gave me some water which I was too thirsty to sterilise . |
| 23 | Although small , my enthusiasm for all Sports helped me and gave me some popularity at school . |
| 24 | The nurse came down and gave me some medicine which totally knocked me out . |
| 25 | Sure enough she offered straight away and gave me some lipstick as well . |
| 26 | Altogether , the tour gave the Indians maximum exposure to me and gave me maximum exposure to the ELT situation in India . |
| 27 | Even in Britain in the last years of the nineteenth century a high foreign office official had fairly frequent interviews , on the instructions of Lord Salisbury , the prime minister and foreign secretary , with Reuter 's agent in London and gave him selected information considered helpful to British policy . |
| 28 | The first gave him a degree of control over appointment to benefices in the Church ; the second referred certain cases to his court and gave him certain prerogative powers . |
| 29 | He did n't go to Mass , but it was said that the priests came down to him once a month and heard his confession and gave him Holy Communion . |
| 30 | Mrs ze Schluderpacheru had taken pity on him , and gave him some sweeping-up chores in return for room and board and the occasional session with Fat Juanita . |