Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This plaque , this memorial plaque , is in honour of those men who gave their lives during this memorial , memorable period of history . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The measures would come into force on the expiry of the two-month amnesty to suspected activists who gave themselves up [ see p. 39168 ] . |
| 7 | The Matra-Ford proved even more reliable the following season , as car and driver swept the board with six wins which gave Stewart the first of his three world titles , winning by 26 points from Jacky Ickx ( Bel ) . |
| 8 | There are coats of arms all around the Chamber of hon. Members who gave their lives for peace in Europe . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I still have that little book of selected poems you gave me on my twelfth birthday . |
| 11 | Gina nodded , remembering the empty bookshelves , the lack of individual touches which gave character to a house , the paucity of furniture , the lack of movable electronic equipment : no television or video , no state-of-the-art audio system . |
| 12 | 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 . |