Example sentences of "gave [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave me every encouragement , lent me camp equipment , provided me with a Somali called Ali as my headman and helped me collect the necessary servants . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ The selectors showed a lot of faith in me and gave me every chance to prove my fitness . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ The selectors showed a lot of faith in me and gave me every chance to prove my fitness . |
| 4 | ‘ I found the last 20 minutes extremely hard but the lads gave me every encouragement and I am delighted , ’ he said . |
| 5 | At the risk of sounding smug , my ornamental kitchen garden gave me no such problems . |
| 6 | Nobody can do anything , Doctor Sparrow does not answer , he refuses to listen , he gave me no reassurance , but I know , I know that I am seriously ill and there is no one here except my mother , and who is to look after her , Dorothea ? |
| 7 | For when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 8 | The giant nanny had unlocked the door for him but kept in the background and gave me no sign of recognition . |
| 9 | He gave me no peace . |
| 10 | Carey addressed the wealthy directly , quoting Jesus ' parable about the sorting of the goats ( the wealthy ) from the sheep ( the poor ) in St Matthew 's gospel : ‘ The curse is upon you … for when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 11 | The dreaded videos themselves gave me no clue . |
| 12 | They gave me no encouragement at all and did n't even realize I was so into football . |
| 13 | This gave me no confidence and I left . |
| 14 | But his face gave me no clue , and he went on : " Would you love me more if I did succeed ? " |
| 15 | He gave me no satisfactory answer , saying only that The Times was set to make this disclosure in an article by a woman journalist the following day . |
| 16 | In Brobdingnag there are large numbers of flies in summer , and these awful insects , each as big as an English bird , gave me no peace . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't say it gave me no satisfaction . ’ |
| 18 | These calls , they gave me no grief . |
| 19 | ‘ He gave me no help when I was in trouble . |
| 20 | ‘ His Royal Highness gave me no information on this . |
| 21 | ‘ His Royal Highness gave me no information on dogs . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ His Royal Highness gave me no information on this . ’ |
| 23 | Goreng 's face gave me no clues ; there was no information there ; sympathy I did n't expect . |
| 24 | My conversations with her gave me no inkling to that effect , and , although she was ambitious , I do not think she felt that her time had come . |
| 25 | ‘ You gave me no chance to refuse ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ They gave me no specific reason why they stopped me and I am just worried they could stop any innocent people , ’ he said . |
| 27 | It gave me a temporary Equity card — mind you they took it away again as soon as I had done the four weeks work . |
| 28 | The teachers gave me a rough time for a couple of years because my student and acting image did n't fit . |
| 29 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 30 | She gave me a slap and I gave her one back . |