Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [pers pn] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was written and circulated privately by Evelyn Underhill for the retreats she gave at Pleshey and elsewhere . |
| 2 | When you see how you have marked it , think about the answers you gave and pinpoint the ones where your answers were weakest . |
| 3 | Shamed Souness said : ‘ I 'd rather not talk about the goals we gave away and concentrate instead on the pluses . ’ |
| 4 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 5 | In the hitherto unpublished Leeds University evaluation of the 1991 Key Stage One National Curriculum Assessment , teachers rated the tasks they gave to children as rather more challenging than did observers , and were rather more generous than the observers in their estimates both of the frequency of open questions and of the opportunities they gave pupils to volunteer opinions . |
| 6 | He stated : " Haughey had retained all but one of the tapes I gave him , and at no stage indicated disapproval of the action that had been taken . " |
| 7 | Some of the interviews he gave were probing and worth further investigation . |
| 8 | It was while she was reading one of the books they gave her — by a philosopher called Christ — the next day by the lamp-light that she suddenly realized what that gemmed necklace had said . |
| 9 | P : ‘ Not if they 're like the ones you gave me last week ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Chesterfield worked hard but we made things easy for them with the goals we gave away . ’ |
| 11 | Even under Edward 's guidance it proved difficult to feel my way into the texts he gave me to read . |
| 12 | And how can you bring this positive word into the examples you gave as answers to question three ? |
| 13 | This change in female initiation patterns is also reflected in the reasons they gave for experimentation with heroin in the first place . |
| 14 | There are a great number of anomalies in the accounts he gave . |
| 15 | The two women putting finishing touches to the buffet supper turned as one , surprise in the smiles they gave the slender figure standing alone in the doorway . |
| 16 | I only read a little in the books he gave me , picked up what I could . |
| 17 | The tribunal also ruled that a 1982 McBride article in the Australian Journal of Biological Sciences was false and misleading in the details it gave about rabbits used in an experiment with another drug . |
| 18 | He grew large and plump and round-cheeked , but he was without kittenish ways as if his sad experience had robbed him prematurely of his youth , yet when he sat on Lyn 's lap in the evenings he gave himself up to a drowsy and contented purring . |
| 19 | and on one side and yet inside the instructions it gave , you know |
| 20 | Their degree of preference for one party Over others had an important influence upon the usefulness-ratings they gave the media for helping them decide how to Vote ( those with clear preferences found the media less useful for that purpose ) but had little or no influence on other aspects of usefulness-ratings . |
| 21 | Or , perhaps , it was in some way due to the directions we gave them ? |
| 22 | ‘ Archaos ’ was n't a flop in relation to the performances they gave . |
| 23 | On the figures he gave , it is an open question whether foreign bankers will want to finance the continuing borrowing requirement at existing interest rates and at the existing parity of sterling . |
| 24 | The task of household budgeting was an extremely difficult one and evoked harsh words from husbands if it was mismanaged , even though most husbands probably had little notion of how to manage on the sums they gave their wives . |
| 25 | On the tests he gave him he was better on puzzles and patterns , poor on those involving speaking and understanding . |
| 26 | Among the gifts they gave her was a sun-lounger and garden table , flowers , pictures , an immaculately iced cake and taped of Irish music to remind her of her homeland . |