Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] who give " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about wee James who give you the wo ring ? |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm on the verge of being one meself , child , if I had the name of that person who gave Lizzy the drugs I 'd scalp the face off them . ’ |
| 3 | There are coats of arms all around the Chamber of hon. Members who gave their lives for peace in Europe . |
| 4 | Cissie Fairchild , through investigating the statements of French women who gave birth to illegitimate babies , has challenged Shorter on his own terms . |
| 5 | HUNDREDS of children enjoyed a sunny day out by the sea yesterday , thanks to the kindness of 300 drivers who gave their time to transport the youngsters . |
| 6 | Mr James ‘ Jimmy ’ Nail , the thespian of unrestricted growth who gives working people his Spender , has been generously delivering himself of his Weltschmerz . |
| 7 | The likelihood of influence by a husband over his wife and of reliance by a wife on her husband to make the business decisions for the family was the justification in the first place for the tenderness of equity towards married women who gave their property as security for their husband 's debts . |
| 8 | Led by Lola Hahn-Warburg , who herself was an indefatigable hospital visitor , the voluntary workers were supported by an impressive team of medical advisers who gave freely of their expertise . |
| 9 | Robert Grosvenor is one of those artists who give new meaning to the term ‘ raw material ’ , using as he has over the years wooden beams — stacked , splintered , split and variously arrayed over the floor . |
| 10 | When the British evacuation of Dunkirk came in May and June 1940 , Sgt Smith was one of those pilots who gave air cover to the boats ferrying Servicemen back from France . |
| 11 | This plaque , this memorial plaque , is in honour of those men who gave their lives during this memorial , memorable period of history . |
| 12 | In France the factionalism from which the country suffered was largely inspired by the nobility , so that command of the army , as the tragedy experienced at Agincourt in 1415 demonstrated , was chiefly in the hands of noble leaders who gave the army a character as noble as it had had in the 1330s . |
| 13 | The men of 602 were part of that group of young men who gave the greatest gift of all in 1941 , when the Battle of Britain stopped the Nazi war-machine over the fields of southern England , the Scots accounting for 130 of the 175 enemy aircraft downed . |
| 14 | Unfortunately despite this success I feel compelled to write this letter of complaint about certain aspects which undermine the efforts of managers , coaches and boys from this country who gave their all in this tournament . |
| 15 | The measures would come into force on the expiry of the two-month amnesty to suspected activists who gave themselves up [ see p. 39168 ] . |
| 16 | In fact , the final point on this graph is almost exclusively attributable to one subject who gave a rating of 17 or over on nine separate occasions during the drive . |
| 17 | More successful education about birth control measures and more approachable advisory services may be part of the answer , but many unwanted pregnancies seem to occur among experienced contraceptors who give up without specifically wishing to become pregnant ( Wells , 1983 ) . |
| 18 | Although by the turn of the century most of the food adulteration that had characterised the nineteenth century grocery trade had disappeared , customers were still cheated by unscrupulous retailers who gave short weight by including an excessive amount of packaging around products such as tea . |
| 19 | Lawrence Pearson was an outstanding man by any standards who gave prodigious service to the building industry , resulting in him being invested with the Order of the British Empire in 1976 . |