Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [conj] [pron] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | WITH the eradication of smallpox by WHO 's successful vaccination campaign , it may have seemed that vaccinia , the cowpox virus that is the basis for the vaccine and which gave vaccination its name , might at last be ready to bow out from its central role in world medicine . |
| 2 | For the reasons that I gave in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Bexleyheath ( Mr. Townsend ) , I believe that we are looking after the interests and future of the wood as thoroughly as any reasonable person could . |
| 3 | I am very grateful for the opportunity that you gave me to speak to the NFU Branch Committee on Thursday last . |
| 4 | Erm can we can you as part of the discussion , can you start off by saying well thank you very much for the call that you gave me last week but erm erm there 's there 's just a couple of sizes I 'd like to talk talk to you about . |
| 5 | We were told that this money was being collected for the families and we gave this money through the official trade union for that purpose . |
| 6 | The Government must have thought that he was worth the money when they gave him the job and they must value his advice . |
| 7 | I thank the Minister for delivering every one of the pledges that he gave us in Committee . |
| 8 | Even Sidney and Beatrice Webb , in their classic history of trade unionism , said of the Act that it gave trade unions ‘ an extra-ordinary and unlimited immunity , however great may be the damage caused , and however unwarranted the act , which most lawyers as well as all employers , regard as nothing less than monstrous ’ . |
| 9 | Well the aye , the quality of the cattle cos it gave you a better grass , better feeding before that you see they bought some clover . |
| 10 | Out of the money that we gave them . |
| 11 | Erm , funnily enough earlier on in August , erm , I rang you up about Yugoslavia , and er , I , one of the reasons that I gave for not , the Europeans , not intervening in Yugoslavia was my fear that it might lead to the Russian military unseating Gorbachev and my , er , discard that the , the sick man of Russia , so erm , sort of parallel I , well I would n't parallel it with Yugoslavia , my argument in Yugoslavia was that we should n't intervene because we do not have primary interests with , I mean , well we clearly have general interest but we do n't have primary interest , additionally in Russia is that everybody , in the world have interest but I would definitely here say that Britain should clearly do nothing per . |
| 12 | For many of the reasons that he gave , the contract for a Shell Sole Pit compression platform has been awarded to Highfab . |
| 13 | Erm at that time erm we did erm report at some length on the question of fostering and exactly what the commissioner 's asked for was the burden of the advice that we gave . |
| 14 | I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant . |
| 15 | And there was silence apart from the sounds of the operation itself and the clipped tones of the surgeon as he gave his orders . |
| 16 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 17 | I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting displayed the facts well , and it was perverse of Conservative Members to pick him up for a slip of the tongue when he gave an incorrect figure , which it is relatively easy to do . |
| 18 | ‘ It was the last Formula Three race of the season and we gave this Brazilian Ayrton Senna da Silva a drive , ’ he said . |
| 19 | It was one of the things that had disappeared from Renascia towards the end and it gave Fenella an odd , rather out-of-balance feeling to see dawn light again . |
| 20 | Th I , I thought I had it clear , and now I 'm slightly confused as a result of an answer that you gave , and I 'm not quite clear again . |
| 21 | I interspersed my self-portraits throughout the collection and they gave the whole thing a lot of impact if I do say so myself . |
| 22 | She squeezed his hand underneath the table and he gave her a darting smile in response . |
| 23 | Then I was in the hospital for a fortnight and they gave me Librium and I was really ill at that time . |
| 24 | Now what that 's saying is , today is the due date for a job that I gave Barbara . |
| 25 | She looked to him for a lead and he gave it to her . |
| 26 | He began to nibble the lobe of her ear and seemed lost for a moment until she gave him a little shake to encourage him to go on and explain . |
| 27 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 28 | Broad money was dropped as a target because it gave completely misleading signals during the 1979-81 recession . |
| 29 | ‘ They knew I had insurance because I took it out with the TSB when they gave me the loan . ’ |
| 30 | This design was not popular with the boatmen as it gave a less comfortable steering position — it was noisier and closer to the exhaust . |