Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] and [pron] gave " in BNC.

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1 It was a strange place and it gave him strange ideas ; he was oddly aware of those who had played , and loved and quarrelled there .
2 It was a Scottish voice and it gave her comfort .
3 a real hand and I gave you about thirty chances , they all stuck together .
4 I said to them it was placing the team and the ARFU in a terrible situation and I gave them a 5.30 pm deadline otherwise the tour was off .
5 And in the dark , when we lay beneath a single sheet and I gave off a Calabrian sweat , when the middle stretch of the night was shorter but still hard to get through — then , as I turned towards that loose S beside me , she would , with a soft murmur , try to lift the lost hair from the back of her neck .
6 Evette , she brought er a green thing A round thing and she gave it to one of the ladies , I can not remember which one .
7 Under his guidance , Parliament House was transformed from a nineteenth-century warren into a modern court-house and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to explore , and share with others , its secrets and treasures .
8 That gave Webb an easy catch and it gave him the time to see that Bath would have a man over if he ran the ball to the left .
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