Example sentences of "[conj] gave i " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 2 | The boots have a Vibram dual density sole that gave me all the grip and comfort I needed over steep wet grass and rough ground . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was in the top three after round one , and that gave me my first taste of a possible major win . |
| 5 | ‘ Gosh , that gave me a scare ! ’ breathed Shirley , and Heather nodded . |
| 6 | I do tend to react to what people say , which was fortunately always favourable , so that gave me something to aim at . |
| 7 | ‘ When I was fired at , he missed and that gave me a love of life . ’ |
| 8 | It was not Billingsley 's physical size that provoked that fear , for I was of a size with him , nor was it his profession that gave me pause , but rather the aura of incipient violence that he radiated like a blast furnace . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I turned round and there , six feet away , was the edge of a crater twenty feet across ; that gave me a shock . |
| 11 | Any edge that gave me would not last for long , and if I was going to protect my client , if she was my client , I 'd better get on with it . |
| 12 | Any news that gave me a chance to see her again was good news . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And that gave me how many flies were gon na be eaten . |
| 15 | And it was this background you see that er that er th th that gave me at least the need for to play some some part in |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | And there was something in the dusty black of her coat , the half-wild scrawny look of her , that gave me a clue . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Somehow if I could only know what he was doing and who he was seeing , that gave me some kind of control over the situation . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I failed by one shot when I should have made it easily , and that gave me the kick up the backside I needed . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Mr Ward told The Independent : ‘ Mr Rowland himself telephoned me the next day , said he was appalled at what had happened to my daughter , and gave me his direct line telephone number , saying he would be there every day from 9 to 6 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Again they swallowed my story and gave me a year 's conditional discharge . |
| 26 | ‘ Certainly , ’ he said , as if he had never seen me before , took my money and gave me a ticket . |
| 27 | But though he had taken all my poetic power , and gave me some of his in return , he still remained himself , his own man , his own poet . |
| 28 | But Stephen was very helpful and gave me a lot of encouragement . ’ |
| 29 | The man turned and gave me a friendly nod , before taking up a small piece of wood with pencil markings on it . |
| 30 | He read my amusement and gave me a twisted grin . |