Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] give [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember the concert performances you gave in Berlin in December 1977 . |
| 2 | Such inverted commas are often called SCARE QUOTES , and are used especially in philosophically-inspired criticism which is sceptical about the customary senses we give to words . |
| 3 | It was written and circulated privately by Evelyn Underhill for the retreats she gave at Pleshey and elsewhere . |
| 4 | We saw in Chapter 8 that Garrett 's model of sentence production does contain these two components ; and the examples of spontaneous speech by aphasic patients we gave in sections 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 illustrate the two patterns which occur if one of the components is damaged and the other spared . |
| 5 | Given half a chance they would ‘ retrobolt ’ ( what curious technical names they give to hearsay these days ) everything we hold dear . |
| 6 | The tribunal also ruled that a 1982 McBride article in the Australian Journal of Biological Sciences was false and misleading in the details it gave about rabbits used in an experiment with another drug . |
| 7 | Most of his jewellery was taken , rings , bracelets , watches and cufflinks , plus items he gave to Jeanette . |
| 8 | This change in female initiation patterns is also reflected in the reasons they gave for experimentation with heroin in the first place . |
| 9 | The city suits and ivory silk dinner jackets she gave to Franky . |
| 10 | I was particularly pleased at the emphasis on investment in education and training , in science research and development and the commitments he gave on transport and health and community care . |
| 11 | In the hitherto unpublished Leeds University evaluation of the 1991 Key Stage One National Curriculum Assessment , teachers rated the tasks they gave to children as rather more challenging than did observers , and were rather more generous than the observers in their estimates both of the frequency of open questions and of the opportunities they gave pupils to volunteer opinions . |
| 12 | The counsellor , in a variety of ways , has to feed back to counsellees the impressions they give to others , and the way they ‘ come across ’ to other people . |
| 13 | The few brief interviews he gave to journalists were terse , and could be described as defensive . |
| 14 | He was challenged to come clean over personal assurances he gave in December 1990 that ministers were obeying a ban on selling defence equipment to Saddam Hussein . |