Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sorry I gave you such a rotten tea . ’ |
| 2 | " I m sorry I gave you such a fright . |
| 3 | Erm sorry I gave them all away I 'm afraid mhm yeah so er I 'm tempted to start rolling again in a moment so would you like to make an announcement yeah ? |
| 4 | This I gave to Shawcraft . |
| 5 | For this I gave them about 30p , which is rather a lot , & since then they have been running up to me when they see me , offering to polish up my briefcase etc . |
| 6 | On the night of 20–21 April 1808 I gave birth to a son . |
| 7 | ON OCTOBER 2 I gave a talk on the British monarchy at an astrological conference in Oslo . |
| 8 | In Chapter 2 I gave a breakdown of the five minimum requirements of the graph search mechanism . |
| 9 | Under normal circumstances the bulk of government patronage in Scotland would be distributed through the agency of ministers familiar with local politics , and it was this which gave the crown its commanding influence in the country . |
| 10 | It was this which gave the family its peculiar importance in the surveillance , and control , of sexual behaviour . |
| 11 | At this she gave off a pulse of hesitation . |
| 12 | Some you gave me wi when I changed . |
| 13 | For example , among those carers living with a dementia sufferer , there were some who gave little care because the sufferer did not need much , because they went out to work , or because they themselves were frail ; and at the other extreme were people who ‘ did everything ’ for a sufferer , and rarely left the house without him or her . |
| 14 | Right So this is what some one gave us |
| 15 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ It was a wonderful donation and because it was so generous we gave the Leas the chance to name the two dogs . ’ |
| 16 | A spokeswoman for The Guide Dog for the Blind Centre at Middlesbrough said : ‘ It was a wonderful donation and because it was so generous we gave the Leas the chance to name the two dogs . ’ |
| 17 | But in the last minute of the first half they gave away a penalty for going over the top at a ruck and Aled Williams , the Swansea outside-half , made no mistake from 20 yards to establish a 10–0 lead . |
| 18 | When the Cid heard this he gave command to store all his Castles , and had them well repaired . |
| 19 | While doing this he gave a wonderful imitation of his coal merchant and his wife . |
| 20 | You will recall that when we talked about the libido theory , I said that there were erm different one of the reasons why Freud had to introduce the libido theory was he wanted to get away from the narrow biological reproductive concept of sex to do with genitals and reproduction which is of course he 'd want to expand it to include psychological never seen before er or never seen before so clearly , such as erm love of the self and , and this he gave the name narcissism , well he did n't actually , somebody else invented it not long before and he took it over very quickly . |
| 21 | Despite all this he gave me one term to show some improvement , I never really shed the " below average " tag at the Halton style of academy . |
| 22 | The tide was so high it gave the impression of the train being waterborne . |
| 23 | To some it gave help in sickness and consolation in poverty . |
| 24 | A fuel tank was shaped into a boat so that when empty it gave 600lb buoyancy in the event of ditching . |
| 25 | This kind of survey arose in a political culture very different from that which gave rise to the factual survey . |
| 26 | It was that which gave him locus standi . |
| 27 | Years coaching black kids in South Africa , his marital ups and downs , his worship for the suspicious Wardle , his boyhood experiences as a film extra which gave him a life-long love of being ‘ on stage ’ , all this satisfactorily answers the question ‘ Why a book from this chap ? ’ |
| 28 | She had never counted how much she gave with such ardent pleasure . |
| 29 | Rubio ( 1908 ) was the first American-bred horse to triumph at Aintree , and he was followed in 1909 by Lutteur III who gave the French their first success in the race . |
| 30 | Oh it er oh it used to take it all depends how much they gave her to do you see . |