Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [conj] [pron] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've always owned apartments because I was born in a tenement in Glasgow and I like flat-life. , If he has one regret it is that government never saw fit to offer him another major job as challenging as his chairmanship of British Steel when he gave it up in 1976 . |
| 2 | If the dieter feels she needs extra guidance or added structure to meal planning , she can always refer back to the suggested meals for good nutrition that we gave at the end of Chapter 4 . |
| 3 | Authorative first crime novel from a woman so obsessed with violent crime that she gave up crime reporting and got a job in the morgue |
| 4 | Primal Scream 's petty pilfering of dance rhythms turned into wholesale hijacking when they gave club deejay Andy Weatherall a cast-off riff to play with and he returned with the seductive bump and grind of ‘ Loaded ’ . |
| 5 | And he said , ‘ I asked the librarian if she had something with big print so she gave me your book . ’ |
| 6 | Would I one day show people this jacket and say that it had been a lovely afternoon in Central Park when he gave it to me and , in closing , would I say that as he disappeared into the trees , I never saw Oscar Wilde again ? |
| 7 | GREAT BRITAIN international Paul Cuskin was in sparkling form as he gave Valli Harriers a storming anchor-leg victory in the Ernie Thompson Memorial Road Relay at Gosforth Park on Saturday . |
| 8 | A surgeon , Helen Martini was specialising in paediatric surgery when she gave it all up to move with her husband to Orkney . |
| 9 | And the pensioners go down to this bungalow free , and it 's in lovely spot and we gave something like two thousand pound for it . |