Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he gave me a good smile and a big goodbye when I left him so . |
| 2 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I played in the unofficial Tests against all the rebel sides that came out to South Africa in the 1980s and that gave me a good idea of what to expect . |
| 4 | That gave me a good idea actually . |
| 5 | We got a few laughs and the local press gave me a good write-up , and the church warden came to me and he said to me ‘ Frank , you should be an actor , ’ and I thought God had spoken because in those days , he was representing God as far as I was concerned … . |
| 6 | GHI verdict : Our testers , heavy with cold , found that the vaporiser gave them a good night 's sleep ; even their husbands/partners slept better . |
| 7 | The folk at Fanmore gave them a good fight last week , and drove them off with five men dead , and they 've not been seen since . |
| 8 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 9 | I hung the carpets out and gave them a good beating . ’ |
| 10 | The local policeman took it in hand , and nobody grumbled , if he gave them a good clout . |
| 11 | So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards . |
| 12 | I gave them a good show , with my writhings and moanings . |
| 13 | So I asked them in the lodge like do n't do any damage and Tom was in e he gave them a good lecture so and the lads in the lodge said , Well look you tell them as well not to do this attitude and perhaps you 've seen it on these flumes when they saw a crowd that was there they were changing gear with the Land Rover and through you know like anybody in the way you 'd be underneath . |
| 14 | The police at Castlereagh allocated a cell to each man and gave them a good meal . |
| 15 | ‘ I expect she gave you a good tea , ’ said my mother . |
| 16 | Well the aye , the quality of the cattle cos it gave you a better grass , better feeding before that you see they bought some clover . |
| 17 | Doubtless he gave her a good dowry when she married another burgess , John Kempe . |
| 18 | Laura seated herself on the bed and Rex gave her a good sniff . |
| 19 | If she sprang up and gave him a good shaking , every bit of public sympathy would be on his side . |
| 20 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 21 | They gave him a good room , and ‘ here therefore we settled , ’ he said , ‘ and did not spoil the present hour with thoughts of departure . ’ |
| 22 | This , he says , gave him a good grounding . |
| 23 | I do n't think there is any question about that , and I feel like we gave him a good shot at staying alive . |
| 24 | It gave him a good feeling , it was satisfying , just to think as he walked up the stairs , those floors are mine , this carved wood , these moulded ceilings . |
| 25 | I gave him a good going-over , I can tell you . |
| 26 | And in return , no doubt , you gave him a good time in bed ! ’ |
| 27 | This , he says , gave him a good overview , knowledge of accounts as well as auditing , and a chance to get to know the management teams . |
| 28 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 29 | She carefully left enough of her father 's original hair tonic in the bottle so that when she gave it a good shake the whole thing still looked reasonably purple . |
| 30 | The mountain goat 's ancestry , as a member of the Bovid family , gave it a good start : it gave the animal the means of subsisting on the poor mountain vegetation , and it provided it with feet that could be adapted to moving around in the precipitous terrain . |