Example sentences of "gave i [adj] pleasure " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , I must say , gave me great pleasure . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It gave me great pleasure to play it with Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic at the Proms , and in Salzburg , Lucerne , Berlin , and Japan . |
| 4 | ‘ The Opera London production of A Midsummer Night 's Dream gave me great pleasure , Noye 's Fludde too . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I never knew whether I should believe that man … but , you know , he gave me great pleasure . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | ‘ Those two scores gave me greater pleasure than my hundreds against Glamorgan and Lancashire . |
| 8 | They also had an overhead railway which gave me unlimited pleasure and I well remember a wall covered with hundreds of tiny wooden drawers filled with different sizes of screws and nails . |
| 9 | Once I had learnt to ride , the trick of balancing took me quite a while , that bike , over the next four years gave me enormous pleasure . |