Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [noun] gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no amount of reading from the prayer book gave me the comfort I sought . |
| 2 | From slang to puns to points of conflict , the end result is something like homeboy fashion meets voodoo charm and , back in ‘ 88 , the LA Times gave her a fitting nickname , ‘ East LA 's Ambassador Of Culture ’ . |
| 3 | The money Danica gave my mother was not enough to buy one of the better sorts of bicycle , but it was no good buying a cheap one as it would have to last me for years . |
| 4 | Over the years , she 'd kept back a portion , every week , of the money Wakelate gave her to buy food at the market . |
| 5 | He would n't even take the tablets Alan gave him . |
| 6 | The look Madeleine gave him would have withered anyone other than her brother . |
| 7 | The look Maria gave him was inimical . |
| 8 | The look Luke gave her was cautionary as she stirred rebelliously , brilliant lips parting . |
| 9 | The Kellaway family gave their name to this house and the now tiny hamlet , when they were the lords of the manor in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries . |
| 10 | Oh , well that the money that I found out my pocket and the payment granny gave me . |
| 11 | The individuals had first to establish that the Trusteeship Agreement gave them standing as against the trusteeship territory . |
| 12 | If only he had pushed his advantage home the night the Dorking brothers gave their party ( ‘ The Night of the Hundred Cans ' , as it was still known in Wimbledon ) . |
| 13 | The silver pince-nez gave him the air of a rather unpleasant schoolmaster . |
| 14 | The Vibram soles gave plenty of grip , wet and dry , and the boots have become comfortable friends for distance walking over reasonable terrain . |
| 15 | Only the crest over the entrance door gave it away and that did n't entertain the eye much , either . |
| 16 | On the way home the recorded voice on the car radio gave its weathered , sweet , mellow report of the day 's play . |
| 17 | Then the Arsenal match gave us a chance to restore some pride — and I think we have done that . ’ |
| 18 | She should have realised , there and then , by the glance Charlotte gave her husband and the way in which he refused to meet it , that her plan to accompany them was a bone of contention . |
| 19 | The glance Luke gave her was suspicious . |
| 20 | The January polls gave them 7 per cent of the vote , guaranteeing federal seats . |
| 21 | The plot Geoff gave me , roughly 40ft by 20ft , was to be transformed into a garden within a single run of the Gardeners ' World programmes ! |
| 22 | The Time-CNN poll gave him 33 per cent support , compared with 28 per cent for Bush and 24 per cent for Clinton . |
| 23 | Thanks to her appealing appearance the Philadelphia audience gave her the benefit of the doubt and listened . |
| 24 | The boss nurse gave her two minutes and told her not to talk . |
| 25 | The panic attacks gave her the perfect excuse , as no blame could possibly be attributed to her . |
| 26 | Nicholson will be glad when he can remove for the last time the putty nose , hairpiece and false front tooth the make-up wizards gave him each day to make him a mirror-image of bully-boy Hoffa . |
| 27 | The matter is now in the hands of the police , after the shop owners gave them details of the two men . |
| 28 | ‘ The Customs men gave me a cup of coffee , mopped up my tears and — ’ |
| 29 | About 1,000 of the PKK forces gave themselves up to Iraqi Kurds who moved them to camps south of the Turkish border . |
| 30 | The Yorkshire crowd gave me the most overwhelming reception , you know . |