Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to that date , however , some of the greater landowners , as lords of regality , maintained private courts which gave them opportunities to attract lawyer-freeholders to their service and hence to their political interest . |
| 2 | But I mean they actually do work , er ten percent gross yield and erm if you asked me to explain how they get the ten percent , I 'd have to use some notes they gave to me cos it 's , cos it 's complicated , but they use derivatives , and they buy in er in the shares and options market , and erm the company I 'm thinking of actually own the shares , but you take options on them , and they take commission on the options , they also take dividends , er and by the time you 've read the , the , the spiel , it sounds a bit like you 've fitted all these petrol savers to your car and you 're driving to Nottingham , and the tank overflows , it 's that sort of |
| 3 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
| 4 | These broke away sharply on seeing the British fighters which gave chase but were unable to catch them . |
| 5 | HUNDREDS of children enjoyed a sunny day out by the sea yesterday , thanks to the kindness of 300 drivers who gave their time to transport the youngsters . |
| 6 | I 'll write more about testing the call to such work , but within a few months we gave up our travelling ministry and took a team of sixteen adults plus their children out of St Luke 's and began Cranham Community Church . |
| 7 | Looking back over some lectures I gave in the early 1980s , I note that the division between the schools which could raise money and those which could not was even then causing me concern . |
| 8 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 9 | After only a few days he gave up and did his best to ignore them even though they had the one thing above all he was beginning to want : freedom . |
| 10 | Although by the turn of the century most of the food adulteration that had characterised the nineteenth century grocery trade had disappeared , customers were still cheated by unscrupulous retailers who gave short weight by including an excessive amount of packaging around products such as tea . |
| 11 | The measures would come into force on the expiry of the two-month amnesty to suspected activists who gave themselves up [ see p. 39168 ] . |
| 12 | Look up old friends you gave up for your partner 's sake . |
| 13 | There are coats of arms all around the Chamber of hon. Members who gave their lives for peace in Europe . |
| 14 | The room was long and plain , stretching down to french windows which gave on to a railed veranda and a view of the gardens and river beyond . |
| 15 | And there were other things ; saliva drooled from her lips and every few seconds she gave a retching cough . |
| 16 | Doggedly she kept her head down over the jewel-coloured designs , trying to concentrate , but after another few seconds she gave up and laid down her pen with elaborate resignation . |
| 17 | Tall , white-painted window frames , subdivided by many glazing bars , were placed under segmental arches of red brickwork and the most prominent features were the high gables which gave the buildings a varied and lively skyline . |
| 18 | On some issues he gave details of steps to settle the debate . |
| 19 | Some saw old laws which gave a creditor tyrannical powers of coercion over his insolvent debtor as the barbarous expedients of a rude age which were both unjust and inhumane . |
| 20 | Cissie Fairchild , through investigating the statements of French women who gave birth to illegitimate babies , has challenged Shorter on his own terms . |
| 21 | The lesson was , of course , that I must never , ever cry for myself for I was a lucky little girl ; my tears should be for all the strong , brave women who gave me life . |
| 22 | Of the 365 visitors who gave the location of their permanent home , slightly more than a third ( 38% ) were from in or near Edinburgh , while the next largest group , accounting for just over a quarter ( 27% ) of those who replied , did not come from elsewhere in Scotland , but from parts of the UK outside Scotland . |
| 23 | The Matra-Ford proved even more reliable the following season , as car and driver swept the board with six wins which gave Stewart the first of his three world titles , winning by 26 points from Jacky Ickx ( Bel ) . |
| 24 | Raving resembled a huge , religious ritual , and like other such rituals it gave many people an insight into a transcendental state . |
| 25 | Many of the ordinary Panamanians who gave the general such a stinging defeat in May 's annulled elections were astonished that the US allowed the coup to collapse when it had 12,000 troops stationed around the canal . |
| 26 | We feel very strongly about freedom of expression , so when [ in 1989 ] the NEA withdrew its grant to Artist 's Space , within forty-eight hours we gave them $10,000 to replace it . |
| 27 | There are also the geologists and civil engineers who gave evidence for Cardiff residents against the barrage during the Select Committee stage of the proceedings on the private Bill in February , April and May of last year . |
| 28 | MAY I thank the following persons who gave their services free at a recent function held by the Royal Victoria Heart Club : Barnbrack , Sylvia Paris , Yvonne , Mary Ann , Bobby Crowthers , David Patterson ; the committee and staff of the Ulster Sports Club , High Street who gave their premises free ; the prize donors ; and , finally , those who attended . |
| 29 | Secondly , the interest rate cartel before 1983 set rates which gave a reasonable return to most societies and inevitably therefore to some who were comparatively inefficient . |
| 30 | In Bradford it was just such issues which gave impetus to the demand for single sex schools . |