Example sentences of "[adj] of [pron] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assault Boats are , as their description implies , not for pleasurable pursuits , although the construction of 8,442 of them gave the craftsmen of Wolverton , skilled in the art of carriage building , an opportunity to employ their talents . |
| 2 | And he had half of I gave him that banana desert . |
| 3 | Whereas academic philosophers with a vested interest in preserving the Aristotelian world-picture were united against Galileo , there was no such unanimity among his clerical contacts , some of whom gave constructive advice . |
| 4 | The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence . |
| 5 | Although each of them gave greatly inflated estimates of their membership , reliable intelligence reports suggest that they were shoestring operations with minimal popular impact . |
| 6 | It was ridiculous to pretend either of them gave a damn about columns and arches and treasures of the old world just now . |
| 7 | Sir Charles Groves conducted the English Sinfonia and the programme included cellist Robert Cohen and soloists Benjamin Luxon and Linda Fennie , all of whom gave their services free of charge . |
| 8 | During the Exodus it was left behind , and became an equally revered treasure of the Pharaohs , one of whom gave it as part of his daughter 's dowry when she married a Celtic prince . |
| 9 | One of them gave me a basket she had made and when I lifted the lid there was a card with her name in Greek and English , and the words ‘ For You ’ … . |
| 10 | It 's just like , no two girls got expelled from my last school for drugs but I think they actually one of them gave it to the other one but they were both expelled . |
| 11 | Matt 's pretty fit from all those outdoor movies where they put olive oil on his pectorals ( though not as fit as he ought to be ) and the two of us gave the crew a bit of a hard time , said union rules did n't apply in the Jungle , and so on . |
| 12 | Both of them gave out pert repartee in the traditional Mae West manner . |
| 13 | Most of them gave up right away , realising they had been caught in the jaws of a carefully laid trap . |