Example sentences of "[noun sg] gave [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't sure if she groaned out loud , but the middle-aged lady in the opposite seat gave her a worried glance before ducking quickly back into her magazine . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Dot gave her the violet-patterned hanky that used to belong to Henrietta Forbes-Read to wipe her eyes . |
| 4 | They claimed that drinking the tea gave them an intense , trip-like experience . |
| 5 | His regular drawing practice gave him a solid understanding of the structure of the human head and hands , and he is unique amongst 18th century British painters for his custom of making detailed preparatory drawings for his portraits . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But working-class discontent was fierce and the ability of the industrial proletariat to paralyse large plants and even whole areas by strike action gave them an immediate power of disruption which the peasantry lacked . |
| 8 | A demand from his bladder gave him a happy idea . |
| 9 | Her work for the Eugenics Society and the Family Planning Association gave her a keen interest in population issues . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His sole gave him a peculiar sensation , realising that it was undone and dragging , made him laugh , in retort , but secretly , inside . |
| 12 | Penry 's displeasure gave her a sudden , desperate longing to get back to wherever — and more importantly whoever — she belonged . |
| 13 | ‘ The brooch gave us the right clue — in fact it gave us two . |
| 14 | Doolin says : ‘ The result gave us a great boost . |
| 15 | So it was a stroke of luck when a friend scrapping an old Volvo car gave him a complete system to fit to his tractor . |
| 16 | Fucking what , I , I 'm , I think it was he 's mum or not , some old biddy gave me a right old . |
| 17 | The photographer shot the usual roll of pictures ; the President gave me a firm , friendly handshake . |
| 18 | The two crosses at either end of the roof gave her a brief moment of hope . |
| 19 | Lack of sleep , food bolted too quickly , the heat and the night jogging gave him a dark-eyed expression of endurance . |
| 20 | In the last-named work he opened up lines of interpretation which , even if somewhat modified since , set firm foundations on which other scholars might build : the exuberant vigour and almost Niagara-like outpouring of scholarship gave it a memorable quality . |
| 21 | ‘ Being involved as a competitor , administrator , and coach gave me a unique insight into the world of top international sport . |
| 22 | Our coach gave them a real buzz . |
| 23 | When I was twelve , and I got baptized , erm a lady gave me a little text and it was from Joshua chapter one and it was verse nine and it says have I not commanded you be strong and courageous do not be terrified , do not be discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go and that 's a verse that I 've been able to remember and to thank God for on so many different occasions all through my training as a doctor and it 's , all the promises in the bible are absolutely true and you can rely on them because it 's not a book written by men but it 's a book written by God . |
| 24 | The following day , a Spanish lady gave us a guided tour of Cartiera , a partly excavated Roman town only three miles from Gibraltar . |
| 25 | My boss gave me a sweet and encouraging smile , balanced a mushroom on a piece of fried bread and conveyed it to his mouth . |
| 26 | daft anyway and nine times out of ten you 've got to look at him and speak to him and that because he ca n't understand and er bloke gave him the verbal . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The bachelor gave them an angry look . |
| 29 | From 1743 until his death , Davies was the undisputed leader of the Pembrokeshire Methodists : his power as a preacher ( a power not discernible in his only printed sermon , Llais y Priodfab , 1768 ) , his standing as an ordained clergyman , and his financial independence gave him a rare combination of spiritual and social advantages . |
| 30 | A kind choirman gave me a threepenny bit , so my total spending money for the day amounted to tenpence . |