Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The giant nanny had unlocked the door for him but kept in the background and gave me no sign of recognition . |
| 2 | ‘ His Royal Highness gave me no information on this . |
| 3 | ‘ His Royal Highness gave me no information on dogs . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ His Royal Highness gave me no information on this . ’ |
| 5 | My conversations with her gave me no inkling to that effect , and , although she was ambitious , I do not think she felt that her time had come . |
| 6 | They gave me no encouragement at all and did n't even realize I was so into football . |
| 7 | I know it sounds pathetic but at the time it gave me a bit of a fright . ’ |
| 8 | I went I said gas shell drop close to me and that that gave me a bit of a right to go an d to the hospital . |
| 9 | But my elbow gave me a bit of concern . |
| 10 | It gave me a bit of support but |
| 11 | ‘ When I was fired at , he missed and that gave me a love of life . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ They made me look a risky proposition until Terry Butcher gave me a chance at Coventry . |
| 13 | ‘ I came from a poor family in the countryside and communism gave me a chance for a better life . |
| 14 | She said hurriedly , ‘ Oh no , not at all , it 's just that the teapot — the teapot gave me a pang of homesickness , just a pang . |
| 15 | He paused , and gave me a flicker of his famous smile . |
| 16 | The pink one gave me a bottle of painkillers and the blue one asked if I needed my hair or make-up re-touched . |
| 17 | He gave me a bottle of hydroquinone , a common substance used in photographic developers . |
| 18 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 19 | He gave me a look as if I were mad . |
| 20 | One family gave me a day off every month , told me I had to be back before nine in the evening and checked my bag when I left to see if I had n't robbed anything . |
| 21 | But they were very kind and they gave me a part in this play , it was called Tilly of Bloomsbury . |
| 22 | When we were seated facing each other again she gave me a ball of pink wool and a pair of knitting needles and I had my first lesson in how to knit properly without dropping stitches . |
| 23 | I met Franklin in 1934 when my parents gave me a trip to England ; we became engaged in 1936 and were married in 1939 . |
| 24 | erm when I was looking at this , this picture of the , of the Brettan Girls , I erm , I was really particularly struck by the bo , the mild head of one of the dancers and the fact that she was rubbing her , her heal , erm and it gave me a voice for , for this poem , I was also drawn by the dismissal , there 's a goose in the painting , there 's four , four geese and one of them is dismissing the , the , the winner outright and erm I found his look very , very interesting and , and I could n't help but compare the lies of these four dancers with those within erm from the later period as the eye that , that , that Gaugin painted later on . |
| 25 | It gave me a sense of liberation , being able to look around without overbalancing . |
| 26 | He was intensely serious about the place of art in life , and I can remember painting a picture in the main art room at Berkhamstead , one I was to sell years later in Manchester , and the way in which he valued this gave me a sense of value in my own achievement . |
| 27 | ‘ It gave me a sense of control . |
| 28 | It gave me a sense of security — security against myself . |
| 29 | It was something that gave me a framework for my experience , and in some ways kind of saved my life really because it gave me words to see that I was n't isolated , that there was a movement — it was very real and it was very gut . |
| 30 | This old lady came out and said about the cough — she gave me a dose of cough medicine . |