Example sentences of "[coord] gave [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recently had some bad news and everyone helped me through it and gave me great support . |
| 2 | ‘ At the hospital , the registrar said , ‘ No , it 's a sebaceous cyst , and we would n't normally operate , but since you are worried we 'll cut it out , ’ and gave me local anaesthetic . |
| 3 | Altogether , the tour gave the Indians maximum exposure to me and gave me maximum exposure to the ELT situation in India . |
| 4 | Sergeant licked Master 's face and hands and gave him playful nips on the arms . |
| 5 | Certain shareholders sold their shares to a take-over bidder , received the purchase price and gave him irrevocable proxies to vote on their behalf , but , in the light of the articles , transfers were not to be lodged for registration . |
| 6 | Even in Britain in the last years of the nineteenth century a high foreign office official had fairly frequent interviews , on the instructions of Lord Salisbury , the prime minister and foreign secretary , with Reuter 's agent in London and gave him selected information considered helpful to British policy . |
| 7 | The first gave him a degree of control over appointment to benefices in the Church ; the second referred certain cases to his court and gave him certain prerogative powers . |
| 8 | He did n't go to Mass , but it was said that the priests came down to him once a month and heard his confession and gave him Holy Communion . |
| 9 | There was little delegation of authority , but Di Tella 's personal participation enhanced his authority and gave him considerable control . |
| 10 | Maybe she tied him up and gave him soft whip . |
| 11 | When a boy arrived at Eton he was allocated to a " classical tutor " who oversaw his work and gave him special tuition . |
| 12 | The grandparents completely dominated the boy and gave him high levels of attention for his difficult behaviour . |
| 13 | The injury temporarily blinded one eye and gave him double vision in the other , but is now no more than a bruise , said his wife . |
| 14 | I then took all the cabinets and gave them deep-dish handles , plus I used the old logo from the early '50s and expanded it length-wise on a computer , to see how it looked . |
| 15 | Pieces of pine from apple cases became cricket bats , tennis rackets or hockey sticks and gave them endless hours of pleasure . |
| 16 | On the Etive slabs Rab and Chris Anderson climbed three lines on the section of slab some 70m right of the Coffin Stone , and gave them punny names as usual . |
| 17 | It was considered a treat to perform in Nehushtah 's chambers , despite her peculiar foreign ways , because she always showered the Ixmaritians with gifts and gave them delicious food and wine for refreshment . |
| 18 | When they returned to the centre Rachel and Nina applied light dressings to the scalds , then took the two ladies into the rest-room and gave them sweet tea to help them recover from shock . |
| 19 | He gathered his own men into a little bunch and gave them careful instructions . |
| 20 | The British Medical Association was founded in 1832 and the Medical Registration Act of 1858 granted doctors a monopoly on the practice of medicine and gave them important powers of self-government . |
| 21 | It was similarly used in long-ago England to describe night-riding demons , usually female , who preyed upon men and gave them bad dreams . |
| 22 | In those days many Europeans , especially in Kenya , relied on Somalis as their headmen ; in turn , these Somalis identified themselves with their masters and gave them devoted service . |
| 23 | The pair ignored us completely and gave us superb views of yet another extremely rare endemic bird of the Seychelles . |
| 24 | But then they came in , rolled up the carpet , cleaned the floor , put plastic mats down , told us to have a shower and gave us clean clothes and clean sheets . |
| 25 | The press picked up the story the following day and gave it wide coverage . |
| 26 | He conceived the idea of artificial daylight and gave it practical reality by filtering the light of an Argand oil lamp through blue glass . |
| 27 | Also on 13 March Fawcett received the ‘ preliminary note ’ at his editor 's office and gave it top priority . |
| 28 | The Authority rightly identified teachers ' classroom practice as a critical factor in children 's learning and gave it considerable prominence in documents , courses and the day-to-day work of its advisory staff in schools . |
| 29 | A representative sample of the adult British population was asked : ‘ If the company you work for had to move its premises , do you think you would or would not move with it and find a new home if it moved more than 50 miles away and gave you financial help to move ? ’ |
| 30 | But they said that it was a different matter over in the west , around Appleby way , where they generally paid more money but worked you very hard and gave you little meat . |