Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] gave [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an afternoon visit to the temples and a drive to the buried Buddhist city of Sarnath where Buddha gave his first sermon . |
| 2 | It is significant that Buchan gave his middle-aged hero , the Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn , a literary ancestry : . |
| 3 | In the end , Butterworth and Clibber gave their reluctant assent . |
| 4 | When they submitted their paper and Fleischmann gave his first public presentation on 28 March it was this peak alone that was exhibited ; it is shown enlarged in Figure 7 with the number of counts in the vertical axis and the energy scale along the bottom . |
| 5 | The numerous spidery capillaries scrawling their florid graffiti across her nose and cheeks gave their own silent clue as to her habits . |
| 6 | His eyes were closed and pallor gave his weathered tan a peculiar blotchy look . |
| 7 | She did n't like many of them , but she did n't want Oswin to be ashamed of her and Angela gave her scant chance to protest . |
| 8 | When Churchill gave his first broadcast , suggesting that the Labour Party might have to resort to ‘ some form of Gestapo , no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance ’ , the electors were bound to regard it as a gross exaggeration ; Attlee , following the next night , could readily ask his audience to distinguish between ‘ Winston Churchill , the great leader in war of a united nation , and Mr Churchill the party leader of the Conservatives ’ . |
| 9 | We were disappointed but we could still watch through the windows as Mum gave her final instructions to Mrs Taylor and Mrs Buckley . |