Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] [adv] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | The auditors say that the Treasury originally gave the go- ahead in 1982 , authorising £1.95 million on research . |
| 2 | I had no problem feeling the feeling that the dream always gave me . |
| 3 | That , however , did not mean that the clause necessarily gave the sellers a valid defence because the clause still had to satisfy the recent legislation on exemption clauses ( see further , paragraph 10–21 below ) . |
| 4 | It was at the beginning of May , some weeks after he first left , that the Zoo finally gave up hope of capturing the escaped golden eagle . |
| 5 | It is true that the paper still gave considerable emphasis to conventional forces . |
| 6 | Even if it were true that the Tsar was long dead , as people said , Abie knew that no army ever gave up the hunt for a deserter . |
| 7 | Jackson agreed , saying that a regulation only gave the illusion of application and that a directive ‘ gives national flexibility which is very necessary ’ . |
| 8 | If the West eventually gave the world the Enlightenment , it was Greeks who had provided much of the light . |
| 9 | The question may be raised as to what the position would be if the trust borrowed monies and the settlor simply gave a bank guarantee for the repayment of the borrowings by the trust . |
| 10 | They tormented her enough on the grounds of her pale skin , her thin body and her grandmother 's pretensions to gentility and the shoes only gave them another cause to tease . |
| 11 | Apparently uncertain as to camera angles , Witchell and the others frequently gave the impression of having spotted a lesbian stalking across the floor . |
| 12 | At the beginning of the war , parliament seized the remainder of the money which Laud had collected for the repair of old St Paul 's , and the MPs later gave the scaffolding being used to repair the tower to one of its army regiments in lieu of pay . |
| 13 | I was drawn lower and lower ; a wall of flesh surrounded me and hemmed me in on every side , yet the pressure was not painful and the flesh easily gave way like soft india-rubber before my slightest movement . |
| 14 | ‘ Then what are we waiting for ? ’ said Jimmy as thunder roared again , and the thing below gave an answering bellow of fury . |
| 15 | Catholic ritual was , of course , a central element of the major liturgical feasts of Easter and Christmas , but the church also gave its blessing to the festivities associated with other religious and civic holidays ; in Canterbury , for example , these included the Corpus Christi processions , the celebration of the translation of the relics of St Thomas à Becket , and the St George 's Day procession , which was headed by the mayor and aldermen of the town . |
| 16 | But the nights there gave me an idea later for a psychedelic light show , so they were n't all waste . |
| 17 | But the baby just gave her his toothless grin . |
| 18 | But the expedition also gave Gould a greater insight into the distribution of species over all Australia ; it suggested to him , in comparison with his recent knowledge of New South Wales and Van Diemen 's Land , which species might be stationary and which dispersed over a greater area . |
| 19 | Recent absurdities of the tort litigation system have included the parents ofa teenager who had committed suicide suing the Catholic church because a priest allegedly gave their son poor advice , and a series of bankrupt borrowers suing their banks for lending them too much money . |
| 20 | The lattice windows which Hazlitt remembered were replaced by sashes when the Coleridges finally gave up the cottage at the end of 1799 |