Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb past] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The researchers had given me an electric thermometer , a stalk of red plastic , to put in my mouth . |
| 2 | The masses were uneducated and the producers had given them rubbish , but what had really ensured ‘ the bloodlessness of the American film ’ was that with intellectuals alienated and excluded there had been ‘ no intelligent body ’ to shape the new medium . |
| 3 | None of the changes had given him any added zest for life — or , for that matter , any desire to look for trouble where no trouble was self-evidently present . |
| 4 | The monsters tried to give me food but I did n't care about eating . |
| 5 | The doctors had given me strict orders to keep warm while I was recuperating and there was no heating at all in the house , ’ said Mrs Easby . |
| 6 | The Danes had given him the appropriately named Order of the Elephant . |
| 7 | He tried to hide the crease of worry on his features , but when she asked him whether the debtors had given him extra time he frowned and shook his head . |
| 8 | She was in fact a magnificent figure of a woman , with no sag or spread ; only , nursing the children had given her a fullness of the breasts which would not lessen , although she turned the little Olivia over to a servant with a feeding-bottle as soon as one could be found . |
| 9 | He had been working at tar Processing and the fumes had given him an unpleasant skin complaint . |