Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] give me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope and pray that the decision to give me the Nobel Peace Prize will encourage all those who pursue the cause of peace to do so in a renewed spirit of optimism and strength . ’ |
| 2 | I thought , in my anxious state , that the orderly gave me a funny look as he left me there . |
| 3 | An answer that the Under-Secretary gave me on 15 October 1990 suggested that a fair number of warning signals would be available . |
| 4 | Like a twat I decided that attack was the best way of preserving my job , and so I demanded that the board give me complete control over team selection , tactics , welfare etc. , with no boardroom interference whatsoever . |
| 5 | ‘ I told you that the letter gave me advice on how to deal with the family and that is all . ’ |
| 6 | In a third shop I was moderately interested in one particular model until the assistant gave me a global price for a computer , printer and so on . |
| 7 | We 're all really close to each other , so if the lads give me a good track with some good bits that turn me on , I want to do well for them , I wan na get some lyrics out they 'd like . |
| 8 | The process of theory taught me how to research , and the substance gave me critical tools . |
| 9 | I read the Blues Brothers review and the soundtrack gave me an idea : why not have a soundtrack chart in ZZAP ! ? |
| 10 | The wireless and the cinema gave me such enjoyment that I decided I 'd become an actor , a film star . |
| 11 | They all shook hands with me , and the Frenchman gave me a bag containing one dozen eggs before I clambered over the wall and into the orchard . |
| 12 | When I came out on top I immediately looked to starboard for the Pole Star and was rather shocked to find that it was oil the portside and we were obviously heading east , but by careful use of the engines was able to turn through 180° and the navigator gave me a heading after taking a sight from the astro compass . |
| 13 | I just stay there , squatting down and the woman gives me a funny look and tugs the little girl 's hand and they walk round me and go off down the road . |
| 14 | Oh , and the priest gave me a pot of wild boar pâté . |
| 15 | I felt the blood running down my face , and the pain gave me strength . |
| 16 | ‘ The council provides the site , I take care of their £400,000 investment which in the current economic climate they ca n't find , and the LTA gives me their £200,000 grant to run it . |
| 17 | But I was thrown into this Guild secretary business and er you ca n't do both , not when you 're trying to erm a family and then by then my son was away and erm I went got a job and the Co-op gave me a job . |
| 18 | D.C.L. degree by Oxford University and the College gave me the honour of welcoming her with flowers ’ . |
| 19 | Explaining his decision , he originally felt that he ‘ would be very unlikely ever to have available the full weight of a team and a manufacturer to give me what should be a reasonable opportunity ( to win the championship ) . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ We knew we had to battle but the players gave me everything . |
| 22 | But the boots gave me a blister . |
| 23 | ‘ I found the last 20 minutes extremely hard but the lads gave me every encouragement and I am delighted , ’ he said . |
| 24 | I remember being unable to connect those grainy breasts and pubic hair with anything in my own life — flesh , for instance — but the image gave me a mysterious frisson which I mistakenly took for sex . |
| 25 | I 'll be back beneath it when the bird bans come off the rest of this stretch of coast on August 15th , unless the military gives me a very good reason not to in the interim . |
| 26 | The only reason I came here was because the Madam gave me your name and said that with your underworld connections you might be able to help me find someone . " |
| 27 | Whereas the boys Give me the pie Get off my steps or something |
| 28 | ‘ Crilly , ’ I say as we lie together , ‘ when the nurse gave me the anaesthetic , she jabbed me so deep that I could feel it throbbing in my veins like an explosion , and it hurt like anything . |
| 29 | " When the Madam gave me the keys and deeds of this house in Easter week , 1916 , she said that it was mine , that she had no further use for it . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd already stretched my credit to the maximum when the bank gave me a cheque guarantee card that was also a credit card . |