Example sentences of "gave [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But last Christmas my grandad gave me eight quid |
| 2 | Tommaso gave me three-quarters of an ingratiating smile and The Fat Controller 's good humour increased by a factor of nine . |
| 3 | Then I met an Arab who gave me 200 francs and my ambition was never to come back to England again . |
| 4 | On top of everything , he gave me 500 dollars for my twenty-first birthday and it 's this I intend sharing between Jenny and the family . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | This gave me easy access to glue . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I was fortunate in my choice of boat , and my equipment gave me little trouble . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Scholl gave me four pairs to take to the Sahara . |
| 10 | My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died . |
| 11 | ‘ Bernard gave me four new tyres for my own car as payment but kept saying , ‘ I 'm going to open a big factory one day and have you as works ' manager ’ . ’ |
| 12 | This , I must say , gave me great pleasure . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It gave me great pleasure to play it with Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic at the Proms , and in Salzburg , Lucerne , Berlin , and Japan . |
| 15 | ‘ The Opera London production of A Midsummer Night 's Dream gave me great pleasure , Noye 's Fludde too . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I never knew whether I should believe that man … but , you know , he gave me great pleasure . |
| 17 | It was something I had never done before and never would again , and it gave me great satisfaction . |
| 18 | I recently had some bad news and everyone helped me through it and gave me great support . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | I told him about the defenestration of Ramsey Everett and he gave me five hundred pounds . |
| 21 | She gave me five I think it was . |
| 22 | Erm Betty gave me five I meant . |
| 23 | Well some gave me five and . |
| 24 | And he gave me thirty gave me a ticket right ? |
| 25 | My son gave me one of them years ago . |
| 26 | ‘ If you gave me one square inch of surface , ’ he said , ‘ I could store all the data on all the computer discs produced by IBM last year . |
| 27 | Are n't you ? — and he gave me one of his dry little smiles . |
| 28 | And he gave me one of his really wicked looks out of the corners of his eyes . |
| 29 | Mark gave me one of Sophie 's doorstops — a sleeping fox , and we went down to visit a friend in the Borders with Ethel for support . |
| 30 | 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 . |