Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to Maurice , my godmother gave me the money to buy a bit of property when I left Southport . |
| 2 | AN HOUR to spare on a recent visit to London gave me the opportunity to visit the famous Science Museum 's well-advertised new gallery ‘ Physics and Nuclear Power ’ . |
| 3 | More importantly , the Fellowship gave me the opportunity to study a subject of my choice at a university of my choice : so ( who would not at that time ? ) |
| 4 | ‘ Steve gave me the opportunity to make a big play early and I did it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You came to in the middle of it , unfortunately for you , but it gave me the opportunity to make a superficial examination . ’ |
| 6 | A week 's leave in August 1958 gave me the opportunity to share in another aspect of island life . |
| 7 | I have looked after his books for forty years and that 's all I know , so he gave me the capital to start and here I am . ’ |
| 8 | As Granpa Charlie and I always had an apple for breakfast , the arrangement sorted out our own needs and also gave me the chance to sample what we were selling to the customers . |
| 9 | This gave me the chance to see many different military aircraft . |
| 10 | Her entry gave me the chance to ignore Ernest and present her with Victor 's note myself , which I did . |
| 11 | ‘ When I got the sack , then it gave me the chance to paint really hard . |
| 12 | Aside from this , there was an invitation to take part in Poll Tax Bingo , an introductory subscription to a new magazine called Torture , Bestiality , Ritual Murder And Game Shows On Cable and Satellite ! and a letter which gave me the chance to send £10 notes to ten strangers . |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't particularly enjoy being a guest of Her Majesty but the experience gave me the chance to get my priorities straight , ’ he said . |
| 14 | That gave me the chance to tell what Braden had done , sounding disgusted as I told it so Mendez would have no doubt what I thought about Braden 's trick . |
| 15 | ‘ As a newcomer to AEA the Strategic Options Exercise gave me the chance to focus on some fundamental issues about the way we manage our activities , ’ he told AEA Times . |
| 16 | The tea tasted horrible but at least it gave me the chance to have a little think . |
| 17 | Especially if it gave me the credibility to help a friend in need . |
| 18 | I described how previous experience gave me the skills needed for the post . |
| 19 | Back in the mid-1970s , Philip Rowntree gave me the funds to establish the Low Pay Unit ( LPU ) to campaign on behalf of workers in Wage Council industries . |
| 20 | ‘ I said nothing from myself , but I prayed , and then said whatever God gave me the confidence to say … when the need arose , God opened even the ass 's mouth ’ . |
| 21 | Their reaction was so encouraging that it gave me the strength to carry on . |
| 22 | It was the therapy that gave me the strength to leave my girlfriend because through it I established the fact that I was prone to passivity , always waiting for other people to call the shots . |
| 23 | Sometimes I think that 's what gave me the strength to deal with all that 's happened to me since , ’ she says . |
| 24 | ‘ Remember , Alec , the doctor in London who gave me the job did say Koraloona was a living laboratory for the treatment of polio . |
| 25 | The doctor who gave me the medication asked me , ‘ Why did you do it ? ’ and I could n't answer because I did n't know . |
| 26 | But my Bible tells me he gave me the power to receive him and to become . |
| 27 | They simply gave me the means to share some sad , courageous and beautiful things . |
| 28 | But nothing gave me the right to say it now . |
| 29 | She was fine and that gave me the courage to go on , then the unveiling was held up because the trustees thought it would be controversial and it was … |
| 30 | Despite its shortcomings and my own , working on Switchboard gave me the tools to work out some sort of political consciousness , the level of articulacy required to stand up for what I started to believe in and the confidence to take the sort of shit that comes to any woman who does that , anywhere . |