Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago ! |
| 2 | This gave me easy access to glue . ’ |
| 3 | Scholl gave me four pairs to take to the Sahara . |
| 4 | It gave me great pleasure to play it with Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic at the Proms , and in Salzburg , Lucerne , Berlin , and Japan . |
| 5 | Despite all this he gave me one term to show some improvement , I never really shed the " below average " tag at the Halton style of academy . |
| 6 | I had to stand in front of the whole school which gave me ample opportunity to observe the envy on some girls ' faces because knitting for the troops was a popular pastime then . |
| 7 | The loss of my daughter Suzy gave me good reason to do what I 'm doing and I have nothing to lose . |
| 8 | ‘ He gave me twelve months to find him a bigger place , ’ recalled Thomas . |
| 9 | She gave me that up-from-under look that only women can do without appearing cretinous . |
| 10 | That was my auntie and that was the l the woman who gave me that tea set I were telling you about . |
| 11 | They gave me two days to decide — two days of hell . ’ |
| 12 | TBD gave me enough pens to make a significant impact on this year 's office stationery allocation ; they also gave me a useful laundry bag , as did Bertrams . |
| 13 | It gave me enough impetus to finish the exit , though I dare say he , like me , felt only marginally warmer for being on land . |
| 14 | She gave me another form to fill in for housing benefit . |
| 15 | He gave me some answers to give you about your questions yesterday evening . ’ |
| 16 | When I was ill she gave me some herbs made into a medicine and I got better quite quickly . |
| 17 | This tin of Day and Martins metal polish gave me some trepidation looking at the vast areas of iron ferrous . |
| 18 | Another monster gave me some fruit to eat . |
| 19 | That gave me some time to take my new bearings , and I enjoyed sitting late in the evening in the warmth of the Headmaster 's study thumbing through papers and timetables . |
| 20 | So Father Kleinsorge got a large piece of grass and drew out the stem so as to make a straw , and gave them all water to drink that way . |
| 21 | Local authorities assumed something like their present form after the Local Government Act of 1888 , which gave them greater powers to raise funds and pass by-laws . |
| 22 | She cut corners , gave them short-term memories borrowed from a pair of marshals she had Dreamed for Neutrino Junction , and had them limit their thoughts to immediate matters . |
| 23 | This gave them little time to develop influence where it mattered , but also meant that the Supreme Soviet had a body of deputies holding important jobs who were in a position to be influential ( Lane , 1985 , pp. 177–81 ) . |
| 24 | Five and even ten years ago academic librarians were generally aware of the demands and problems of user education in their sector , and the research and development projects gave them little reason to change the fundamentals of their approach . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They tormented her enough on the grounds of her pale skin , her thin body and her grandmother 's pretensions to gentility and the shoes only gave them another cause to tease . |
| 27 | I gave you that thing to put your pens on ! |
| 28 | M. I gave you that book to read because I thought you would feel identified with him . |
| 29 | Now , when one of us is describing a restaurant , there is intensive cross-questioning about the quality of the puddings and petits fours , and commiseration if they do not sound up to scratch : ‘ Do you mean they only gave you one chocolate truffle each ! ’ |
| 30 | 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 ? ’ |