Example sentences of "gave a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerard Gili was Cantona 's coach at Marseille , and he gave a revealing insight into his bust-up with Wilkinson at Leeds . |
| 2 | She gave a piteous wail . |
| 3 | Indeed his work not only provided an answer to that particular problem , but gave a complete theory of a whole class of related problems . |
| 4 | His ‘ Dirty toys ’ , as he describes his arrangements of battered dolls and stuffed animals which he rescues from thrift shops , were included in last autumn 's ‘ Objects for the Ideal Home ’ at the Serpentine Gallery and in the Hayward Gallery 's recent ‘ Doubletake ’ , but neither occasion gave a complete or convincing account of the range of his interests . |
| 5 | Not that she gave a damn , but Lucy 's mind was obviously on him . |
| 6 | And there were her looks , nobody could forget them , nobody except herself ; she never did a thing about them , as women do these days , she never gave a damn : as my father used to say , she wears her beauty lightly . |
| 7 | Ironically , Beveridge actually hoped that a pension which reduced income and gave a higher pension to those who stayed at work , would encourage people to defer retirement : ‘ Making receipt of pension conditional on retirement is not intended to encourage or hasten retirement . |
| 8 | England 's women gave a disappointing display in their second match against the Soviets at Luton , losing 2-1 . |
| 9 | The respondent took this opportunity to add an entry on the computer which gave a 70 per cent . |
| 10 | She caught sight of her own reflection in the full-length mirror behind the wardrobe door and gave a disgusted snort . |
| 11 | Robyn took a deep breath and gave a half-hearted knock at the front door . |
| 12 | The landlord gave a half-hearted gesture of resignation . |
| 13 | He gave a half-hearted smile . |
| 14 | Aldo gave a slovenly salute and left . |
| 15 | Starting from the position that the dominant framework of feminist film criticism was ‘ too restrictive in the kinds of questions it asks of cinema ’ Gledhill gave a convincing defence of feminist realist practices and concluded with a plea for a kind of cultural analysis which could ‘ hold the extra-discursive and the discursive together as a complex and contradictory interrelation ’ . |
| 16 | Bunny banged on a table instead and the new girl gave a convincing scream . |
| 17 | The casting was still incongruous but , because she had gained enormous confidence , she began to look better , held herself tautly , lightly , and , by the Saturday matinee , gave a convincing performance of an eighteen-year-old girl . |
| 18 | Bowe , who gave a masterful performance of boxing and punching skills , proved that there 's life after Mike Tyson . |
| 19 | It has long been recognized that Pausanias gave a Herodotean dress and added some comments of his own to what must ultimately be a third-century B.C. account of the Celtic attack ( O. Regenbogen , P.-W. , s.v . |
| 20 | ‘ I have never managed to work out what it is unemployed women do during the day — ’ he gave a neutral laugh ‘ — except between five and seven , of course . ’ |
| 21 | Very near the beginning Maggie gave a wee tip , do n't say you 're a representative say you 're an employee of Friends Provident , it makes life easier . |
| 22 | Then Dotty Blundell , who a moment before had drooped under the weight of her leopard-skin coat , flung back her shoulders and lowering her chin gave a peek-a-boo smile . |
| 23 | Indeed in April he had proved that such reading was an art : the Sitwells had organized an evening for the Free French in the Aeolian Hall , and in front of the Queen he gave a memorable and dramatic performance of " What the Thunder Said " . |
| 24 | The plateau we crossed before the final pyramid was hostile , the snow wind-beaten to a hard , glittering crust that squeaked at the approach of our boots and then gave a satisfying crunch as we went through it . |
| 25 | Harrison and his friends gave a rousing version of his Beatles composition , Taxman , in which the names of former prime ministers Mr Heath and Mr Wilson were replaced by those of Mr Major and Mr Kinnock . |
| 26 | Our Life President , Lady Sybil Clampe , was unable to be with us because she had been hemmed in by an inconsiderate BMW in the station car park in Swindon , but she gave a rousing presidential address over her car phone . |
| 27 | The middle-class organizations and parties who dominated the Conference gave a rousing reception to General Kornilov , the new Supreme Commander . |
| 28 | Below : Buffalo 's officers gave a rousing cheer to the Duke of Edinburgh and Lord Sterling as they passed by abroad the Royal yacht , Britannia |
| 29 | The Radetsky March of the elder Johann Strauss gave a rousing finish . |
| 30 | ‘ Because , my dear , ’ Marc gave a perceptible sigh , ‘ as I 've already suggested , if you 're not going to play it my way you can best show your regard for him by taking up my alternative offer of an airline ticket before he returns . |