Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun] gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite its shattering defeat in 1931 the Labour Party had established itself as the dominant political force opposed to the Conservative Party , as the unchallenged controller of local government on the major coalfields and as the Party to which the great majority of trade-union officials gave their loyalty . |
| 2 | The glance of astonishment Feargal gave her should have made her back off , but she was so thoroughly fed up with this family , with being the meat in the sandwich of everyone 's feud , that she ignored him . |
| 3 | Unscrupulous manipulation of constituency boundaries gave them even more of the seats in the Stormont Parliament than they properly deserved , but this gerrymandering was unnecessary . |
| 4 | The preponderance of mud huts with their semi-grey roofs of grass thatching gave it an ashen look during the dry season . |
| 5 | In return Hubert gave her security , pleasant surroundings , a degree of social standing and , of course , the twins . |
| 6 | A stormy passage up the west coast in Autumn gales gave us a taste of what was to come , and those among the crew of that time will remember it as the Force Ten winter . |
| 7 | A 9–2 win over Sheffield United on Christmas Eve gave them the League leadership . |
| 8 | Her talent for landscape painting gave her father ‘ half a mind ’ to ‘ make an Angelica Kauffman of her ’ . |
| 9 | But working-class discontent was fierce and the ability of the industrial proletariat to paralyse large plants and even whole areas by strike action gave them an immediate power of disruption which the peasantry lacked . |