Example sentences of "in the [noun] [conj] [pron] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calcavecchia was again first out in the afternoon and he gave poor Meshiai no respite , scoring 66 to a 73 . |
| 2 | He had spent several years in the Sudan and he gave us a tip : ‘ Never take a taxi there , ’ he said , ‘ without fixing the price for the journey before you get in . ’ |
| 3 | The first is that the CED worked with the semantic pairs , in the sense that it gave a statistically significant result , but it does not in this investigation . |
| 4 | It was said by his acquaintances in the pub that he gave value for money , but there was a touch of genius in the way he talked that night . |
| 5 | If he called , she 'd pretend to be out , she 'd hide in an outhouse , hide in the straw in the barn until he gave up his snooping and went away . |
| 6 | And we saw that in the calculation that I gave you at the end of last week 's lecture . |
| 7 | Nsanzimana commented that both would be offered representation in the government if they gave up this condition and expressed a willingness to participate . |
| 8 | The uncertainty in the number that I gave you , about fifteen to eighteen billion years , is not in any sense an error due to inaccuracies of measurements of the rate at which the universe is currently expanding , but there are systematic differences of opinion about how one should calibrate the expansion rate , because people have different means of measuring the distance from us of the most luminous objects . |
| 9 | I decided to keep them in the count because they gave an interesting sidelight on the history of lending libraries in England with some specific examples , and there were not too many of them . |
| 10 | I 'd just like to add that included in the numbers that I gave you for Camco were not just redundancy costs , but costs of closures of sales offices , distribution networks and some other special one-time charges , so it 's not pure redundancy when you look at the numbers that I gave you earlier on . |
| 11 | was going to say check it in the book but I gave you wrong one . |
| 12 | The word book in The book that he gave me is the antecedent of that . |
| 13 | The lad looked his father straight in the eye as he gave his blunt answer . |
| 14 | Er , oh in the example that I gave , yes , because it was totalling what the grand total . |
| 15 | Also they had to film the invasion in the dark so they gave us two lamps . |