Example sentences of "[pron] gave i the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 2 | I wish there was still something to look at which gave me the same feeling . |
| 3 | Erm , Philip or somebody gave me the level premium . |
| 4 | And she gave me the immortal reply , ‘ No , I 'm Heather , but wo n't I do ? ’ |
| 5 | See the towels she gave me the last time . |
| 6 | There was a slight delay as she read it and then her head slowly turned in my direction and she gave me the biggest grin I 'd ever seen . |
| 7 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 8 | He gave me the good news that Elizabeth and Ernest were safe and well . |
| 9 | He gave me the inside scoop on the Biggest Wave story : the thirty-five-foot mountain he 'd ridden on 5 January 1985 . |
| 10 | He gave me the most trouble by returning more potential Pathfinders than any other CO : hut not only — aircrew he walked about Gransden with a wad of railway warrants in his pocket , and anyone who offended got one on the spot . |
| 11 | Quite unwittingly you played right into my hands that night , Aurora — I knew you had n't been taking drugs , but it gave me the perfect excuse for sticking around . |
| 12 | Maybe that does n't sound like anything , but I 'll tell you it gave me the strangest feeling I ever had . |