Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] gave [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The silver pince-nez gave him the air of a rather unpleasant schoolmaster . |
| 2 | An older club member gave me a lift back to the station and I asked her what she thought of Ten Forward . |
| 3 | Lawyer A gave him a lot of advice about what was reasonable , but it was not invariably accepted . |
| 4 | Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 . |
| 5 | They grumble that the company 's membership of the British Franchise Association gave it a ring of confidence in which investors put their faith . |
| 6 | This seems to have been an important period for Williams , for his lecture programme gave him the opportunity to broaden his contacts . |
| 7 | Television had brought golf to the working class and for just a moment television gave us an idea of what it meant to them . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes — bred from a mare Burun gave me the year we fought the Alan . |
| 9 | On the first day Odd-Knut gave me a tobacco tin of worms and told me to keep them warm , and they have travelled the Arctic inside my second layer of clothing ever since , even sharing my sleeping bag at night-time . |
| 10 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 11 | After more enquiries , a devout soccer fan gave me a selection to read . |
| 12 | ‘ I used to do a lot of home brewing and going round beer festivals gave me the idea of doing it for a living . |
| 13 | His thoughts were brought back to the present when Nanny Fanny gave him a sandwich of buttered bread thickly spread with strawberry jam . |
| 14 | Improving life expectancy gave them every hope of doing so , especially if they belonged to the rising middle-class . |
| 15 | His card message system gave him the freedom to go out alone and hail a taxi , showing the driver the appropriate card for the place he wanted to visit . |
| 16 | But no amount of reading from the prayer book gave me the comfort I sought . |
| 17 | Completing these and other joint improvement activities gave us a total of more than £1m saved in 1991 , making some £4m since we began our haulier performance improvement programme . |
| 18 | It was he who lent Hardy the money to go to Paris : he who decided to take Hardy 's hopeful acting career under his wing and get him an audition with ‘ my father ’ down at the Cardiff studios , where Philip 's radio play gave him an entree . |
| 19 | Several Graben-like extensions in the north-west direction gave it a width of about 500 km ( Ziegler 1979 ) . |
| 20 | The red-and-white skull-cap above the monkey eyes gave him the air of a performing chimpanzee . |
| 21 | Lyall has n't forgotten how Tottenham supremo Venables gave him a job on the scouting staff after he was sacked by West Ham . |
| 22 | A stormy passage up the west coast in Autumn gales gave us a taste of what was to come , and those among the crew of that time will remember it as the Force Ten winter . |
| 23 | Cup draw gave them a home tie with Scarborough . |
| 24 | When I insisted on more information Wendy gave me the address of a flat in Copenhagen where they 'd stayed — the three girls , this Svend and two other boys . |
| 25 | Sometimes his Spidergob mates gave him a bit of a skragging on account of it ; not like what you 'd skrag a Mad Dog or a Scarface , if you ever got the chance , ‘ course . |
| 26 | His thick white hair and silver-streaked goatee beard gave him a look of experience and authority , while soft blue eyes and a hint of wryness in his smile suggested a mortal to whom disappointment was a familiar companion . |
| 27 | His big break came when a Rolling Stone critic gave him a rave write-up and major record companies fell over themselves in an attempt to be the first to sign this new blues sensation . |
| 28 | Marx was wrong , it is now claimed , when he asserted that the steam engine gave us the capitalist . |
| 29 | She occasionally contacted me , and for a Christmas present gave me a photograph of Balbinder taken at school and made into a calendar . |
| 30 | A serving girl gave him a plate of fish and eggs , which he stirred with a fork , but did not eat . |