Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] gave " in BNC.

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1 He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived .
2 So I went back to the lady doctor and she gave me a cream and some tablets .
3 That 's happened , I could n't get any one year I took the triplets to the erm Goose Hill coffee morning in the Town Hall and I gave them all money for the tombola and one of them won a Creme Egg
4 He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off .
5 His hand rapped the door frame and he gave a chirrup of pain .
6 Gerry pointed out , however , that referees were not happy having Pushov and his interpreter stood on the goal line as it gave us an unfair advantage .
7 A consortium of English and European dealers , led by S.J.Phillips of Bond St , bid a world record price for a snuff box when they gave SF2,530,000 ( £1,155,2507 ) for one of the twenty-six surviving hardstone and jewelled boxes made for Frederick the Great .
8 ‘ It was only a postcard photo and I gave it spirituality , animation and took it to another vocabulary ’ .
9 Her eyes darted round the club as though seeking an escape route and she gave a hollow groan .
10 Erm he wrote to Photo Gallery and asked them for er an exhibition date and they gave him one in nineteen ninety .
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