Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [noun] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horns were still there , curled and chipped , the brown hair was coarse and stiff , and the flyridden eyesockets gave an uneasy impression of movement . |
| 2 | But no amount of reading from the prayer book gave me the comfort I sought . |
| 3 | Initially the parties will rely on the notes made by solicitors and counsel when the trial judge gave the reasons for his decision when delivering judgment in open court . |
| 4 | What lay behind the first three grounds of appeal was the direction which the trial judge gave to the jury on the subject of concert . |
| 5 | ( The Tonga Chronicle gave due prominence to the storm the following week , though they might have wished for more careful sub-editing. ‘ $10 damage as islands hit by hurricane ’ read the headline . |
| 6 | From slang to puns to points of conflict , the end result is something like homeboy fashion meets voodoo charm and , back in ‘ 88 , the LA Times gave her a fitting nickname , ‘ East LA 's Ambassador Of Culture ’ . |
| 7 | Aboard his recently acquired Aprilia , the Whitehall rider gave the best expert class performance in the Waterlooville Club trial , which was contested on a very difficult course at Budden 's Bank , near Chalton on Saturday . |
| 8 | The mattress support gave a twanging sigh . |
| 9 | The Bute family gave the castle into state care in 1961 . |
| 10 | A year after his elevation to the throne Sigismund gave proof of his statesmanship when at his Easter court he issued his law-book , the Liber Constitutionum , better , though less correctly , known as the Lex Gundobada . |
| 11 | The money Danica gave my mother was not enough to buy one of the better sorts of bicycle , but it was no good buying a cheap one as it would have to last me for years . |
| 12 | Over the years , she 'd kept back a portion , every week , of the money Wakelate gave her to buy food at the market . |
| 13 | When he drew down the top of the blanket Laura gave a cry , staggering where she stood . |
| 14 | He would n't even take the tablets Alan gave him . |
| 15 | In termtime he worked all the hours God gave . |
| 16 | The look Madeleine gave him would have withered anyone other than her brother . |
| 17 | The look Maria gave him was inimical . |
| 18 | The look Luke gave her was cautionary as she stirred rebelliously , brilliant lips parting . |
| 19 | The reasons people gave for not using the form of credit ( very few were actually refused it , by lenders ) were rarely concerned specifically with cost — they were generally things like ‘ changed my mind ’ or ‘ thought of a better method ’ . |
| 20 | The Kolowrat family gave money for the church as one of their family belonged to the Jesuit Order and it was here they chose to be buried . |
| 21 | The Kellaway family gave their name to this house and the now tiny hamlet , when they were the lords of the manor in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries . |
| 22 | The Murcia ruling gave the PSOE 176 seats , a majority of one in the 350-seat Congress of Deputies . |
| 23 | The car was so low it looked as if a giant had tried to stub it out and it was clear that getting out of the bucket seat gave the Greek momentary altitude sickness . |
| 24 | Oh , well that the money that I found out my pocket and the payment granny gave me . |
| 25 | The smells began to change : the woodsmoke and the sweet smell of the dung fires gave way to the heady scent of Indian champa and the first bittersweet whiffs of China orange blossom . |
| 26 | Behind the glass cabinet doors , Belinda glimpsed rows of neatly labelled spice jars and piles of elegant crockery — all the pride and delight of the housekeeper Mrs Porter , evidently — then they had passed through the kitchen and into an enclosed section of veranda where the hardwood floor gave way to squares of woven sea-grass matting . |
| 27 | Overhead , the strip lights gave out a ghastly flickering blue and the shadows of the storm on that huge expanse of glass created a psychedelic swirl of speckled light in the office which added to the vertigo . |
| 28 | That the Hereford canon gave the map to Hereford remains a mere hypothesis ; his ecclesiastical career was linked rather with the diocese of Salisbury , while the city of Salisbury is not included on the map . |
| 29 | The individuals had first to establish that the Trusteeship Agreement gave them standing as against the trusteeship territory . |
| 30 | Inclusion of the minor reactivity in the PCNA assay gave a mean proliferation index of 9.1% and the correlation failed to be significant . |