Example sentences of "my [noun] gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There was a string of seed pearls my father gave me , and two rings of my mother 's and a brooch or two — but nothing worth a lot of money . ’ |
| 32 | I was able to follow up that evening , for my father gave me a lovely chrysanthemum bloom from his greenhouse and the next day I took it to her home and asked her mother , who opened the door to my rather nervous knock , if she would give it to her daughter . |
| 33 | This was all in addition to the usual lessons my father gave me on mathematics and history and so on . |
| 34 | They had a row in my presence and when it was over my father gave my mother five hundred pounds . ’ |
| 35 | Antique furniture , yes , erm , because I 'd bought that during the war in various antique places , you know , and erm , what did we buy , no I think my father gave us the bedroom furniture was , which was at the |
| 36 | ‘ I 'm sure that was a better lunch than my father gave you in Rouen . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ I should have recognised that you were a stronger character than that , and accepted your delight in the presents my father gave you for what it was — sheer , innocent pleasure . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ Though your mother wore the ring every day after my father gave it to her , Maria noticed that her hand was bare when she left . ’ |
| 39 | My father gave it to me for my seventeenth birthday . |
| 40 | It was like this — my uncle and my father came to Britain first and my uncle gave his pay packet to my father , who is older . |
| 41 | My grandmother gave my a set of oil paints when I was four and she got really angry because they were wee tiny tubes and I squeezed them all out in one go and started painting like Frank Auerbach . |
| 42 | My grandmother gave my a set of oil paints when I was four and she got really angry because they were wee tiny tubes and I squeezed them all out in one go and started painting like Frank Auerbach . |
| 43 | My surprise gave her renewed energy . |
| 44 | My dad gave him the sort of look that only someone declared clinically dead can manage . |
| 45 | I looked round at the picture of Bruce Lee , the travel poster of Malaysia my dad gave me , my certificate of merit for Grade Two Saxophone , my 320 computer discs , my colour picture of an iguana and the tattered remains of a portable snooker table we got when I was twelve . |
| 46 | But my classmates gave me the nickname Einstein , so presumably they saw signs of something better . |
| 47 | As I sat down the man on my left gave me a brief nod . |
| 48 | My son gave me one of them years ago . |
| 49 | a huge island in the middle , and erm went all the way round , and anyway I , I made a path out of flints from , taken from all the mud , and worked my way round , and then started to plant things , and a hawthorn hedge , bushes and shrubs , and erm my son gave me a boat and I was able to go across to the island . |
| 50 | ROBBIE You used to say you could always tell what was bothering me , you said my face gave me away . |
| 51 | My brother gave me his guitar , and I inherited a violin , which I learned well . |
| 52 | My mother gave them to me when I left university . ’ |
| 53 | My mother gave you the calm . |
| 54 | But last Christmas my grandad gave me eight quid |
| 55 | My grandad gave us |