Example sentences of "[conj] gave me [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Gosh , that gave me a scare ! ’ breathed Shirley , and Heather nodded . |
| 2 | ‘ When I was fired at , he missed and that gave me a love of life . ’ |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I played in the unofficial Tests against all the rebel sides that came out to South Africa in the 1980s and that gave me a good idea of what to expect . |
| 4 | I turned round and there , six feet away , was the edge of a crater twenty feet across ; that gave me a shock . |
| 5 | Any news that gave me a chance to see her again was good news . |
| 6 | And there was something in the dusty black of her coat , the half-wild scrawny look of her , that gave me a clue . |
| 7 | And that gave me a terrible feeling , I just did n't know what to , whether to you know , you was sad and yet you felt wild at them putting it that way . |
| 8 | It was something that gave me a framework for my experience , and in some ways kind of saved my life really because it gave me words to see that I was n't isolated , that there was a movement — it was very real and it was very gut . |
| 9 | Well that gave me a start of course , so immediately I got a warrant out , and he , some while afterwards he was picked up in London . |
| 10 | Although it looked completely different , it was this truck that gave me the concept for ‘ MiniMag ’ , the 27ft ( 8m ) articulated truck that we used for Mrs Thatcher 's open-air meetings in the 1987 election . |
| 11 | It was the therapy that gave me the strength to leave my girlfriend because through it I established the fact that I was prone to passivity , always waiting for other people to call the shots . |
| 12 | She was fine and that gave me the courage to go on , then the unveiling was held up because the trustees thought it would be controversial and it was … |
| 13 | ‘ I failed by one shot when I should have made it easily , and that gave me the kick up the backside I needed . ’ |
| 14 | He said : ‘ The selectors showed a lot of faith in me and gave me every chance to prove my fitness . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ The selectors showed a lot of faith in me and gave me every chance to prove my fitness . |
| 16 | The giant nanny had unlocked the door for him but kept in the background and gave me no sign of recognition . |
| 17 | She came down to Riverside with me , watched as we rehearsed then followed me into the loo and gave me a blow job — something I just was n't used to as a 17-year-old grammar school boy still living at home with his mum and dad . |
| 18 | Again they swallowed my story and gave me a year 's conditional discharge . |
| 19 | ‘ Certainly , ’ he said , as if he had never seen me before , took my money and gave me a ticket . |
| 20 | But Stephen was very helpful and gave me a lot of encouragement . ’ |
| 21 | The man turned and gave me a friendly nod , before taking up a small piece of wood with pencil markings on it . |
| 22 | He read my amusement and gave me a twisted grin . |
| 23 | He glanced across the table , saw me smiling , interpreted my thought and gave me a slow ironic blink . |
| 24 | ANDY ORKNEY ( Old Applejack ) : ‘ He jumped really well and gave me a tremendous ride . |
| 25 | He opened up more the love of God to me and gave me a livelier apprehension of the Mystery of Redemption and how much I am beholden to Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 26 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |
| 27 | Thank you to the person who arrived unknowingly on my doorstep and gave me a really sympathetic cuddle while I cried for 10 minutes ( ? ) in relief that I had misunderstood the doctor . |
| 28 | Five minutes later , an Arab in a small blue van stopped and gave me a few kilos of tangerines . |
| 29 | Such information was not highly ‘ theoretical ’ but it helped build up an objective picture of the people who went to the theatres I studied and gave me a useful corrective to people who made sweeping generalizations such as ‘ the theatre is for everyone . ’ |
| 30 | Then she half rose from the desk , leaned across and gave me a dead fish handshake , and with a glazed stare directed somewhere over my left shoulder , she rattled out , all in one breath and with no punctuation , ‘ Thankyouverymuchforallyouhavedonegoodbye . ’ |