Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's my first win in the race , ’ Paul said afterwards ‘ and I must say La Greine gave me a great run . ’ |
| 2 | The feeling , I was surprised to find , gave me a great sense of satisfaction , almost of ecstasy . |
| 3 | This gave me a great sense of freedom — and , just occasionally , I did hurtle down the street at night ! |
| 4 | It gave me a great deal of pleasure to think how much more pained he was going to be in a few moments . |
| 5 | And whatever he may have tried to gain from me , he also gave me a great deal . ’ |
| 6 | MARTIN LYNCH ( Cool Ground ) : ‘ Basically he gave me a great ride . |
| 7 | What is interesting about them is that while the development corporations acquired powers that gave them a great deal of autonomy within their own territories , there is today a variety of questions to be raised about the extent to which their ‘ success ’ was secured at the expense of other policies to which they ‘ ought ’ to have related . |
| 8 | Yussuf gave her a great push . |
| 9 | and it gave her a great thrill . |
| 10 | She had a little smile on her face because she had won that round easily and it gave her a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 11 | But Jessica put her arm around her mother and gave her a great hug . |
| 12 | The little goblin , who was terribly afraid of what the king of the vookodlaks would do to him if Yanek went home to look after his grandfather , gave him a great push . |
| 13 | But secretly he loved the idea , and it gave him a great kick to tell his friends and business acquaintances that he was supporting his son on the amateur golf circuit . |
| 14 | And I was walking away , and turned and gave him a great kick , you know , right in his balls , and I said , ‘ Come on then ’ , took a mad fit , you know , and I |
| 15 | He dreamed up mad little schemes that both gave him a great deal of pleasure and helped him to avoid some of the inevitable boredom of an out-of-town tour production . |
| 16 | Comedian Michael Bentine recounted that he had asked a sensitive why some parts of the chalk countryside around Folkestone , where he lived , gave him a great feeling of security and peace while others made him feel uncomfortable and nervous . |
| 17 | This was especially so at Birmingham , where at 6.00 a.m. on Friday an ‘ End of Stage 2 ’ banner was erected and more than twenty insomniacs gave us a great breakfast and a marvellous reception that we will not forget , thanks to everyone who turned up , you certainly made us feel very welcome . |
| 18 | Doolin says : ‘ The result gave us a great boost . |
| 19 | I am the delighted winner of the Outdoor Action Splash competition and I 'd just like to say that Andy Middleton and his colleagues gave us a great time on our week 's holiday at the Twr-y-Felin outdoor centre . |
| 20 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |