Example sentences of "and so gave " in BNC.

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1 Pompeii lay in verdant , wine-growing country and so gave special prominence to Venus , goddess of fecundity , Hercules and Bacchus .
2 Perhaps the terms of reference were slightly vague , but the NZRFU probably considered that their lads deserved a break , and so gave general permission for the expedition to Italy .
3 His family knew nothing of education and so gave him no support or encouragement , still less active aid .
4 In fact , Hunter saw Chaplin as ‘ the Dickens of the films ’ and so gave another reminder of how the whole world of silent movies was moulded in the idiom of the great Victorian writer .
5 Stephen Lazarević , Lazar 's successor , actually fought for Bayezid 's Turkish army at the battle of Ankara in 1402 when Timur defeated the Turks and so gave the Byzantines a half-century respite before the conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II in 1453 .
6 Aileen had read about multi-currency mortgages in the newspapers and so gave a specialist broker a call to find out more .
7 It was white , and so gave optimum visibility on the screen .
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