Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gave me quite a thrill . |
| 2 | But he bore no malice , and on the way back to the hotel gave me quite a run-down on his cousin Ena , who he said had once been Queen of Spain . |
| 3 | It gave me quite a shock . |
| 4 | You gave me quite a shock . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ My goodness , yes , you gave me quite a fright . ’ |
| 6 | It really gave me quite a fright . |
| 7 | Still , the thought gave me quite a jolt of pleasure . |
| 8 | I was missing the warmth of the people , although my two years in the ‘ east ’ gave me quite a lot of material which you will discover in the following pages . |
| 9 | This in itself gave them also the advantage of a better fighting morale than the Republicans , whose desperate defensive efforts were unable to stop the implacable advance of their adversaries . |
| 10 | Duncan gave them both a farewell smile and left . |
| 11 | Venality was rife ; the precedent of even groups as illustrious as the Beatles and the Stones signing to contracts which gave them only a penny a record had become legendary : at the end of the Sixties , Allen Klein had achieved notoriety for his dexterous accounting abilities , working for both groups in the role of both ‘ finder ’ extracting hidden royalties from the record company for the group — and ‘ taker ’ — extracting them from the group for himself . |
| 12 | I gave you yesterday the analogy of the home , and now we can imagine Mary bustling about the home with water for washing , for cooking and for cleaning . |
| 13 | Shiona watched it , reflecting that the reason for her sensitivity was that her private life was the only area of her existence that gave her absolutely no satisfaction at all . |
| 14 | ‘ It gave her quite a shock , ’ said Bob Murray , managing director of the International Freight firm in Small Heath , Birmingham , where Carolyn has worked for three years . |
| 15 | In March 1990 they gave her about a year to live . |
| 16 | His Jamaican parents gave him absolutely no encouragement in sport and little more in education yet his school teachers exerted often crude pressures on him to participate in the school athletics and football teams . |
| 17 | Her room was pleasant and airy ; a front room , probably the best in the house , and Aunt Louise 's possessions gave it quite an air . |
| 18 | I gave us both a refill . |
| 19 | Thelma gave us both a refill , shaking her head . |
| 20 | That was the general feeling but he did , he gave us about an hour and a half . |