Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [pron] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim is to raise money for any former resistance workers who 've fallen on hard times and to say thank you for the help they gave to our servicemen : |
| 2 | The aim is to raise money for any former resistance workers who 've fallen on hard times and to say thank you for the help they gave to our servicemen : |
| 3 | But one thing , on behalf of the museum services , I would like to thank Doreen Griffiths for the help she gave us in our exhibition , ’ Memories of Change ’ , which you can see in the exhibition room over there , and she contributed a lot of photographs , and her memories , and allowed herself to be taped and have her memories in our archive , and for that we give her a great thank , because it 's not always easy for the , sometimes for the first time to begin talking into a tape-recorder , so we thank her very much , and thank you very much for coming in and performing for us today ! |
| 4 | I am writing to thank you for the coverage you gave my launch as the No More Pylons candidate ( Echo March 26 ) . |
| 5 | would like to thank managers and staff at the branch for the support they gave him during his recent illness . |
| 6 | Parliament did not often pass laws with any wide-ranging implications , and the most wide-ranging recent laws , the religious legislation of the Reformation , were never applied at all precisely in America , but no legal framework could have been imagined for the colonies which gave them a legitimate position under English law without putting them under the legislative supremacy of Parliament . |
| 7 | Ressentiment is a more precise word ; he may well have been blaming God in these developing years for the loss he felt — for the anguish it gave not only to himself but also that witnessed by him in his mother and sister . |
| 8 | Can I , I would like to change the wording of the er amendment and I 'm grateful to Mr for the advice he gave because I think by erm a slightly shorter and er er brisker wording I can achieve the objectives that I set out to achieve . |
| 9 | It was written and circulated privately by Evelyn Underhill for the retreats she gave at Pleshey and elsewhere . |
| 10 | This concludes Mr Birdwood 's article and again many thanks to him for the talk he gave last March and for permission to reprint same . |
| 11 | Add the names , or , if you prefer anonymity , numbers , for the staff who gave each item of care to each person . |
| 12 | Similarly , hearing increased in importance both for the information it gave about the environment in general , and for communication within the species ; hence the stage was also set for language to be born . |
| 13 | Thanks for the quote you gave me yesterday . |
| 14 | Naturally , for the people who gave us oral fixation and penis envy , among other contributions to psycho-babble , this is far too simplistic an idea . |
| 15 | FERGIE is throwing a Christmas party for the people who gave her the courage to get over her fall from grace in the Royal Family . |
| 16 | This accounts for the attention he gave to the reserves , or ‘ spare men ’ as he liked to call them . |
| 17 | As New South Wales was the only state without an ALP government , the Liberal-National coalition was widely expected to benefit from the current unpopularity of the Hawke government , an expectation apparently supported by opinion polls published during the campaign which gave the coalition a lead of up to 16 percentage points over Labor . |
| 18 | Old women , such as the mother of Uzum Hasan ; such as the wife who gave you your fortune ; such as Marietta of Patras , the mother of the lord Zacco . ’ |
| 19 | All participants agree that Debré was the main architect of the constitution , but de Gaulle played an active supervisory role , intervening not just to ensure conformity with Bayeux principles but often to insist on specific wording or specific clauses ( such as the article which gave the president the right to assume full powers in the event of a national emergency ) . |
| 20 | And if I speak a bit plain … just think of me as the woman who gave up everything to save you girls from their worst dangers Dear sisters there is not one of us ladies … who wo n't tell you that we have learnt our most precious lessons of faith … and patience , and self-sacrifice and contentedness under trials from you . |
| 21 | erm it may very well be that certain family situations , such as the example I gave you example earlier — somebody may have given up work to look after a dependent . |
| 22 | His face was without the offensively avuncular smile that usually accompanies such trite statements ; and something intent about the look he gave me made it clear he did not mean it tritely . |
| 23 | He was unhappy about the story they gave and went to his car to make further checks on his radio while Special Constable Goodman stood outside . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , but what about the gravy I gave you ? ’ |
| 25 | We hear the saga of Lila , Molly and the so-called Charity Collector ; Second-Cousin Sadie denting her best new soup-ladle on the head of a Fascist in the blackshirts ' march down Cable Street ; the one about the optician who gave Mama free spectacles in exchange for a bottle of her home-made slivovitz ; What Minna told the Would-be Matchmaker ; Lila and the Driving Instructor : and , finally , The Day We Moved from Whitechapel and Baby Becky Was Almost Left Behind . |
| 26 | When you see how you have marked it , think about the answers you gave and pinpoint the ones where your answers were weakest . |
| 27 | Rosa gently teased Erika about the vestigial romance but was serious about the advice she gave , that Erika was not , repeat not , to get involved with a boy-friend , especially with the Indoor Championships drawing nearer , and with the Ministry of Sport keeping an eye on her . |
| 28 | Shamed Souness said : ‘ I 'd rather not talk about the goals we gave away and concentrate instead on the pluses . ’ |
| 29 | Two kinds of caution are needed about the nature of the evidence , and about the people who gave it . |
| 30 | 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 . |