Example sentences of "give [pron] so [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She has given me so much happiness . |
2 | He has remarked , ‘ No other phase of my academic life has given me so much pleasure and instruction . ’ |
3 | My wife , Jane , and close friends were all at Manchester Airport to meet me on my return from France and waiting at home were my mother , more friends , half of Sheffield United FC and Willie Thorne , whose friendship has given me so much confidence . |
4 | ‘ I 'm sorry to have given you so little help last night , Dungarvan . |
5 | They give them so much protection nowadays . |
6 | ‘ Give you so much power , you forget how hard you have to work them . |
7 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
8 | Some £150,000 will be allocated to various recreational schemes in London , most of which will be in boroughs through which the course runs ; boroughs which give us so much help . |
9 | I am just lucky that my fish have survived and have flourished to give me so much pleasure . |
10 | Er one case I know he , he 's so well known amongst the old lads er he used to give you so many sums to do each day and I think it was four or five long division . |
11 | teacher 's nose he or she will think it 's a brilliant laugh to give you so much detention that you 'll be lucky to leave the class in time to pick up your pension . |
12 | Either I have to give you so much information about myself that you are forced to admit that I could no more have killed my wife than Flaubert could have committed suicide ; or else I merely say , That 's all , that 's enough . |
13 | And er the corporation used to give her so many tickets to last her the week . |
14 | These were the ones giving them so much grief because of low chip yields ( UX No 412 , 413 ) . |
15 | ‘ Thank you for giving me so much help . ’ |
16 | They are giving me so much discomfort now , I can hardly listen to these gentlemen . ’ |
17 | Either he did not wish me to get into trouble or , more probable , he did not relish the thought of giving me so much gelt — sixpence . |
18 | There are two girl keepers who spend as much time as they can with him and are giving him so many titbits that he 's getting thoroughly spoiled . |
19 | Nothing in the whole of her life had ever given her so much pleasure as this . |
20 | He had given her so many things , beautiful things , little surprising things when he came back from trips . |
21 | His Excellency has been one of the best Ambassadors Spain has ever sent us , and his very dear wife has given him so much support . |
22 | Mandy and Debby looked the part all right , they looked tough enough for this , particularly Debby , who gave me so much eye-contact and hand-on-knee and dressing-gown disclosure that I almost asked for her telephone number . |
23 | That bicycle gave me so much joy for many years . |
24 | It gave me so much joy … ’ |
25 | ‘ A part of myself … which gives me so much pain ’ |
26 | But it is a part which gives me so much pain that sometimes I ca n't bear it — ca n't bear it at all . ’ |
27 | Rhyme , measure , and the turning of verses , which is indispensable and which gives them so much vigour , are analogous to the hidden symmetry , to the equilibrium at once wise and inspired , which governs the meeting or separation of lines and spaces , the echoes of color , etc. ’ poetic painting was Delacroix 's preference , but ‘ David 's picture of Leonidas at Thermopolae is masculine and vigorous prose , I admit ’ . |
28 | That Tele 's so basic , but it gives you so much freedom . |
29 | If you simply enjoy the countryside , we can add an extra dimension — and protect that which gives you so much pleasure . |
30 | ‘ Why do it , ’ she said , ‘ if it gives you so little satisfaction ? ’ |