Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] gave [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was bending my brains to think of a way of introducing Brian Harley into the conversation when the television monitor in the corner of the tent gave me the ideal opportunity . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ The board gave me a free hand with the retained list and backed me all the way . |
| 3 | To put it another way : when the cat is on heat ( which she has n't been since the vet gave her the unkindest cut of all ) , nevertheless when she was , she had very little time for chasing moths hanging unsubtly round the fridge or cuddling up for a neck scratch . |
| 4 | The vet gave him a strong dose of painkiller , and after waiting in vain for a while to see if the pain eased , she decided to pop back into town to fetch an x-ray machine . |
| 5 | The referendum gave him a huge majority : 2773920 votes for and 2452 against the President . |
| 6 | The two crosses at either end of the roof gave her a brief moment of hope . |
| 7 | The ensemble gave her a slinky , model-like elegance and made her feel like an actress playing a part … a nightclub scene , probably … instead of her normal self . |
| 8 | They claimed that drinking the tea gave them an intense , trip-like experience . |
| 9 | So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards . |
| 10 | The photographer shot the usual roll of pictures ; the President gave me a firm , friendly handshake . |
| 11 | Doolin says : ‘ The result gave us a great boost . |
| 12 | As usual , the sound of the shooting gave you no clear picture of what was happening ; the bursts , however heavy , and the ragged , irregular intervals between them were quite meaningless . |
| 13 | City had not won a League game at Portman Road for 30 years , and had not scored in their last seven visits , but the jinx looked to have come to an end when Gary Flitcroft 's first senior goal for the club gave them a 37th minute lead . |
| 14 | ‘ The brooch gave us the right clue — in fact it gave us two . |
| 15 | The girl gave him an undisclosed amount of cash and he hurried out . |
| 16 | The girl gave him an undisclosed amount of cash and he hurried out . |
| 17 | The girl gave her a pitying smile . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll give you a hand until the rush dies down and then I thought I 'd get on with the account orders for tomorrow , ’ she said casually , but the girl gave her a strange look , and Folly had a nasty feeling that her voice was n't as fully under control as she had thought . |
| 19 | The cop gave me a hard look and moved off . |
| 20 | The bachelor gave them an angry look . |
| 21 | Hickson alleged that while in the police station where he had been taken by P.C. Torney on a charge of having stolen 10&shilling from the pocket of his clothes in a cubicle at the Corporation Swimming Baths , the constable gave him a violent blow to the eye , and followed this up by two blows to the body … he was subsequently acquitted on this charge . |
| 22 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 23 | One agent in North 's employ remembered being over at CIA headquarters one day when a call came in to him from North , ‘ and everybody in the room gave me a dirty look . ’ |
| 24 | In fact , the war gave him a new sombreness of attitude to match his stark experience of the " essential problems of life " ; and inevitably this sombreness communicated itself to his continued thinking about the problems of tragedy . |
| 25 | To my surprise , the singer gave me a friendly nod before throwing his head back and tackling the last verses . |
| 26 | He was a queer fish , but the town gave him a rough ride when they got the chance . ’ |
| 27 | Gebrec smiled politely , but Melissa had the impression that the announcement gave him no particular pleasure . |
| 28 | The Duke gave him a quick , keen look . |
| 29 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |
| 30 | The abbot gave him a long , penetrating look , and concluded at length : ‘ You are in solemn earnest . |