Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] gave [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will love him , Lily , like this , ’ and Pen gave her a strangling hug so that she gasped and laughed and begged to be released . |
| 2 | ‘ Being involved as a competitor , administrator , and coach gave me a unique insight into the world of top international sport . |
| 3 | Money and generosity gave her a kindly power over Deer Forest . |
| 4 | The dragging breath and the bullet holes at front and back gave him an easy diagnosis . |
| 5 | The opera , like Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess the following year , used an all-Black cast and the staging and choreography gave it a British connection since it was by Frederick Ashton . |
| 6 | He was not a tall man , but something about his confidence and reputation gave him an impressive stature . |
| 7 | On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ . |
| 8 | She kept a pretty green budgerigar called Peter , who once dropped dead in his cage but came back to life when Nanny gave him a few drops of gin squeezed from a wad of cotton-wool . |