Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [pron] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I 've got yeah I know they did , but I think after a while they stopped doing that I think the latest ones you 'll find do n't , do n't do that , they gave , you know , after a while they gave that up , but I , I must check on that , I must check on . |
| 2 | After a while he gave up . |
| 3 | After a while he gave her a sidelong glance under his enviable black lashes . |
| 4 | Mrs Tremayne would try to persuade her to go into Penzance with her , but after a while she gave up . |
| 5 | After a while she gave up , and left him sitting there , staring blindly into an unimaginable future . |
| 6 | I asked him after a lecture he gave in Cambridge , and he looked at me in a vague way and said yes , he would . |
| 7 | One can only question the wisdom of a god who gave shelled creatures a sex life . |
| 8 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 9 | Chambers wrote of a mermaid who gave a lad medical advice for his sweetheart 's illness : |
| 10 | Another messenger tells of the death of a lord who gave a lot of money to the church . |
| 11 | Since his win in 1987 , Swindon has grown , changing the complexion of a town which gave him a majority ofjust 5,000 . |
| 12 | Tsitsi Vera and Noreen Welch , co-anchors of the main news , ‘ lost their composure ’ when Vera read a report of a woman who gave birth in the toilet of a train . |
| 13 | Let me give you the text of a talk I gave to the Bridport Women 's Institute , before the Scandal , and when Julian and I were still developing our blueprint for the world of the future . |
| 14 | There are though , records of a talk she gave to the Royal Photographic Society at Russell Square in London on October 28th 1913 . |
| 15 | There are though , records of a talk she gave to the Royal Photographic Society at Russell Square in London on October 28th 1913 . |
| 16 | I did n't go because I was suddenly seized by an overwhelming passion for him , we did n't make love on the tiger-skin rug in that little box of a room you gave him , his pear-shaped body pressed against my ageing but still voluptuous frame . ’ |
| 17 | I cherish the memory of a lecture he gave at MIT where I was a student in 1947 . |
| 18 | Because of a lecture I gave last weekend I 've to write a paper on how P R audits can be applied to the military which is great fun and an acknowledgement that people of a senior level were listening to my lecture but , um it 's put quite a bit of work on me . |
| 19 | ‘ But instead of a baby he gave me gonorrhoea . ’ |
| 20 | Many speakers highlighted the apparent paradox of a party which gave its blessing to separate internal organisations for both women and young people , but which denied the same privilege to its black members . |
| 21 | To the idea of a miscellany he gave a firm no . |
| 22 | With great trepidation and much backsliding the tsar eventually granted the serfs a sort of freedom , but if their interests had been dear to his heart he could have committed himself earlier and pressed harder for a settlement which gave them an economically viable future . |
| 23 | With College authorities he reached an unofficial arrangement whereby for a term he gave his salary to Francis Bacon whom he had asked to fill his place . |
| 24 | For a time he gave up drinking and smoking altogether . |
| 25 | When Elt , after a string of famous mistresses , including the doctor Joan Malleson , settled down with Jean Ashman , Minton designed the invitation for a party they gave and painted a dado to ornament the room . |
| 26 | He also struck me as a man who gave the most mature thought before uttering even one of these rare words ; and that if you said ‘ good morning ’ to him , he would reflect for some seconds while a number of questions passed through his mind . |
| 27 | They created this distressed finish by marking and denting the guitar all over with a tool which gave the instrument a used/vintage appearance . |
| 28 | Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney . |
| 29 | She smiled , shook her head , and in a voice which gave no room for argument said , ‘ Oh no . |
| 30 | In 1956 , the Soviet scientist , Ivor Kurchatov removed some of the secrecy surrounding research on fusion in a lecture he gave at Harwell . |