Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] give [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My parents had given me a little electric keyboard for my fourth birthday , and I quickly learnt to play the tunes in the manual . |
| 2 | She remembered the evening because his parents had given him an awful sweater for his birthday and between comedy programmes on the television she and Alan thought up alternative uses for an awful sweater . |
| 3 | She rarely smiled but this was not through a lack of good nature : her responsibilities had given her a serious expression . |
| 4 | Just when she had been on the brink of despair , one of her rich customers had given her a handsome order . |
| 5 | The magazine was in trouble long before David Thomas and his young guns attempted to give it a lifesaving bypass . |
| 6 | Lori had given her an old-fashioned look . |
| 7 | By September the Franco courts had given him a twenty-year prison sentence . |
| 8 | The researchers had given me an electric thermometer , a stalk of red plastic , to put in my mouth . |
| 9 | He had been working at tar Processing and the fumes had given him an unpleasant skin complaint . |