Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hand resisted , then after a moment gave way . |
| 2 | The astonishing range of innovations made by this tireless giant of a man gave contemporary noblemen — never mind humbler folk — the sense of being in the hands of some alien , elemental force . |
| 3 | The secretion of a skeleton gave the corals a great advantage over many other coelenterates ; supported thus they could overcome the lack of rigidity of their soft tissues and grow large . |
| 4 | Land was often acquired for little or nothing ; in many places the citizens and those living within the jurisdiction of a town gave their services in the building of walls , the equivalent , it may be argued , of a tax intended to cover building expenses . |
| 5 | This coming and going of black and white was just fast enough to give a faint , flickering image of Lucy 's delightful nakedness and all of a sudden gave Fleury an idea . |
| 6 | O for the Wings of a Dove gave everyone pleasure , with Paul stumbling a little over the notes , but gaining poise with the full-throated singing of Dinah , true to the note , like a thrush , or perhaps a nightingale . |
| 7 | The woman who answered Bernadette 's ad for a childminder gave a false name , no proper address , was evasive about her phone number , and had no references . |
| 8 | So far as the early history of the emancipation process is concerned Field 's position is probably stronger than Zakharova 's , for although Nicholas I 's call for a militia gave rise to disturbances among the peasantry in 1855 , although almost all the memoranda which circulated in private during the Crimean War referred to the possibility of peasant risings , and although Alexander II alluded to the prospect of rural uprisings both in his speech to the Moscow gentry and in his comments on the papers submitted to him by Haxthausen , it is hard to prove that rural developments took pride of place among the reasons for setting reform in train . |
| 9 | Such was the respect in which the Drama Board was held by teachers , advisers and teacher-trainers alike that the profession as a whole gave support to this new examination , the first ( apart from Peter Slade 's own certificate in Birmingham ) to give recognition to talented classroom teachers . |
| 10 | But fortunately their meal was ready now , which as a rule gave Fen an excuse not to talk . |
| 11 | A JUDGE at the Old Bailey in London yesterday reprimanded the former wife of the Earl of Cassillis for ‘ unacceptable ’ behaviour in court after she pulled faces , made noises and shook her head as a witness gave evidence . |
| 12 | Those with a surplus gave to the English poor with the same mixture of motives with which donations are now made to Oxfam . |
| 13 | But the sight of Dimitri Volkov with a woman gave him pause . |
| 14 | Police in a Sierra gave chase at up to 80mph . |
| 15 | Our ‘ novel ’ was almost certainly a write-off , but that in a sense gave a kind of freedom . |
| 16 | Some Arabs in a tent gave them a little water and then the exhausted men finally stumbled into an outpost of the King 's Dragoon Guards . |
| 17 | His most famous invention , however , was a stone xylophone , invented when Neddy noticed that a stone he had found in a beck gave out a clear note when struck . |
| 18 | If a person who was occupied a considerable time in a search gave an additional fee to the parish clerk , saying , ‘ I wish to make you some compensation for your time , ’ that would be a voluntary payment . |
| 19 | If a person who was occupied a considerable time in a search gave an additional fee to the parish clerk , saying , ‘ I wish to make you some compensation for your time , ’ that would be a voluntary payment . |
| 20 | To find such understanding in a book gave me strength . |
| 21 | A minor skirmish with the bank on a hairpin gave us a puncture [ and heart failure ! ] . |