Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] [noun sg] [pers pn] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the second day they gave her a rubber ball attached on a long elastic thread to a wooden bat . |
| 2 | Or the second model they gave was the special constable either a newly recruited special or a person who is an existing special to work in the in the parish . |
| 3 | And anyway , the first day she gave me right enough , she came round every morning with my breakfast and brought it into the lift for me . |
| 4 | But , the first day she gave me bread with jam and butter on it . |
| 5 | On the first occasion he gave the King the result of the consultations with the Cabinet and the Dominions . |
| 6 | For the first time she gave vent to loud screams , which became her usual method of attracting attention from that time : ‘ this manner of crying endured many years after this time , for aught any man might do , and therefore , suffered she much despite and much reproof ’ . |
| 7 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 8 | The first declaration he gave to Pineau to take back to France would almost certainly have disappointed resisters : its denunciation of the Third Republic was a little too sweeping for Pineau 's taste ( one has to remember that by this stage the bitter experience of Vichyism and Nazism was beginning to rehabilitate the reputation of republicanism in France ) , and it had almost nothing to say about social or economic reform . |
| 9 | At the third attempt I gave up and hailed a taxi . |
| 10 | Because Mr Karajan told me he was a very great conductor — that was the last message he gave me . ’ |
| 11 | Sometimes you 're a week away from the last performance you gave and then find yourself out there — so that the voice and understanding of the part does need constant refreshing . |
| 12 | In the last interview he gave to a French journalist before the war began , Ho , in envisaging the way in which ‘ at all costs war must be averted ’ , seemed to accept independence within the French Union ; although unless this was based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of the French Union , which also seems unlikely , this was probably more of a smoke-screen than a smoke-signal . |
| 13 | The next day he gave himself up to police . |
| 14 | The calamity was discovered after he left , and the next morning he gave a totally different and even more eloquent record to Edison 's enterprising representative , Colonel Gouraud ’ . |