Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was on his bike six kids jumped him and said give us your bike they , they took his bike off him gave him a hammering right on the nose , broke his nose . |
| 2 | Cauterets stands on either side of its Gave , with the older , more villagey quarter on the east bank and the newer , more upstanding parts on the west . |
| 3 | She was heard to pause before going into the bathroom , the latch of which gave its distinctive click . |
| 4 | As she 'd expected , that smug look of his gave way to a scowl . |
| 5 | Take the case of She gave him a piece of her mind . |
| 6 | Something at the core of him gave in to her . |
| 7 | We discussed the cosmic background microwave irradiation and the support the discovery of it gave to the big bang theory . |
| 8 | The ice beneath him gave ; he braced himself , and slid slowly into the muddy lake up to his neck . |
| 9 | She slipped further and the lover-giant 's grip upon her gave . |
| 10 | The strength of its hold on her gave her goose-bumps . |
| 11 | The name in itself gave no clues about the nature of the work being planned . |
| 12 | And apparently a colleague of mine gave a paper this morning saying that Kent was vulnerable to earthquakes erm even though earthquakes have not been recorded or at least not substantial ones in this country for perhaps two , three hundred years erm there is a history of earthquakes in , particularly in the sort of Colchester , Essex , Kent region , and erm the erm the historians and the pundits tell us that erm they may come back again so perhaps we ought to reinforce our buildings now . |
| 13 | Striding through Africa dressed in bonnet , high-necked blouse and long wool skirt , in search of beetles and fish to study , the ground beneath her gave way and she fell fifteen feet into an animal trap with twelve-inch long ebony spikes . |
| 14 | Her first sight of it gave her a severe shock . |
| 15 | Blood was dripping from her right hand , The sight of it gave her a funny cold feeling inside , and the thought flashed through her mind : ‘ Shall I be able to paint again ? ’ |
| 16 | It was serious , set in purpose , and the sight of it gave her an agreeable feeling of submission to higher powers . |
| 17 | A receipted bill with it gave the address of the purchaser . |
| 18 | The continued silence about him gave rise to new rumours about his health and mental condition , and that he had been relieved of his duties by Himmler and Goebbels . |
| 19 | The book of which gave him most satisfaction was William Neil 's One Volume Bible Commentary . |
| 20 | The familiarity of it gave her the urge to work . |
| 21 | However not all respondents were able to do so and a number of them gave figures for exports during their company 's financial year . |
| 22 | However , not all respondents were able to do so and a number of them gave figures for exports during their company 's financial year . |
| 23 | a Scottish sailor marooned on the island of Juan Fernandez from 1704 until he was picked up by Captain Woodes Rogers 52 months later ; Woodes 's account of him gave Defoe the idea of Robinson Crusoe , and Cowper wrote a poem entitled ‘ Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk ’ , beginning ‘ I am monarch of all I survey ’ . |
| 24 | And the certainty of it gave her the strength to smile . |
| 25 | It had only a very small , hardly noticeable brass plate outside which gave nothing away . |
| 26 | Though the lack of one gave her little comfort as she glanced at her arms and noticed the fresh red flea-bites of the night . |
| 27 | She put her hands against their huge hard heads , and the warm power of them gave her confidence a strange boost . |
| 28 | The deliberate cruelty of it gave Theda the strength she needed . |
| 29 | She was smaller than Jenna with none of Jenna 's slender , willowy height , but she was so healthy-looking that the fact in itself gave her an added attraction . |