Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun] [pron] gave " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Anxious not to offend the tsar further , he hesitated ; after three days he gave way , went to Philippopolis and the union of the southern and northern Bulgars was proclaimed . |
| 2 | After two months he gave in . |
| 3 | After two years they gave up prospecting and pulled out . |
| 4 | HUNDREDS of children enjoyed a sunny day out by the sea yesterday , thanks to the kindness of 300 drivers who gave their time to transport the youngsters . |
| 5 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 6 | The Matra-Ford proved even more reliable the following season , as car and driver swept the board with six wins which gave Stewart the first of his three world titles , winning by 26 points from Jacky Ickx ( Bel ) . |
| 7 | We feel very strongly about freedom of expression , so when [ in 1989 ] the NEA withdrew its grant to Artist 's Space , within forty-eight hours we gave them $10,000 to replace it . |
| 8 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 9 | In a fit of feverish activity Gould proceeded to publish a series of lectures and papers as quickly as he could possibly produce them ; on 25 August he exhibited and named at the Zoological Society six new species of kangaroo and presented his information on the bowerbirds ; on 8 September he read a paper at a scientific meeting on the extraordinary brush turkey , or Alectura , among a selection of others ; on 13 October he gave an account of the Ocellated leipoa ; on 10 November he exhibited at the Society 50 of his new Australian birds , which he characterised in subsequent meetings ; and so on , until he had presented all his new trophies from both the bird and animal kingdoms to the awestruck Zoological members . |
| 10 | In fact , the final point on this graph is almost exclusively attributable to one subject who gave a rating of 17 or over on nine separate occasions during the drive . |
| 11 | On 15 October he gave an ‘ academy ’ ( a concert ) at the city theatre : the programme included two piano concertos which he played himself ( K.459 in F , noted by one listener as a work of ‘ gentillesse and great charm ’ , and K.537 in D , subsequently known as the ‘ Coronation ’ ) , a symphony ( presumably one of the 1788 group ) , and various arias and piano pieces . |
| 12 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 13 | We were in a sort of back room , and at one point we gave a particularly loud whoop at a particularly long word and a waiter looked in to see if we were calling for anything and then went away . |
| 14 | All were pierced by four gates which gave access to the internal roads . |