Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] [vb past] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was helping Aunt Tone prepare stuff in the kitchen but had to give up when Lewis and Verity volunteered to assist as well , and then spent most of the time feeding one another little bits of food , goosing each other and going into sardinely-intimate huddles punctuated by low whispers , bursts of baboon-like giggles and convincingly porcine snorts . |
| 2 | The exercise had made the public familiar with the coalition and had given the local branches of the three parties experience in working together for a common purpose . |
| 3 | Dr John Nicholson , a committee member of the Section , stepped into the gap and started to give an impromptu lecture . |
| 4 | With entire self-assurance , greeting us all with a smile , he got into the car and began to give directions . |
| 5 | The mountains that had given the scene its depth and colour were now vague grey shapes , like the background of a Japanese print . |
| 6 | It had been Mme Guérigny 's and Montaine 's intimacy with the creatures of the forest that had given them the idea of hiding their deserter in the cave . |
| 7 | Spain was still deeply divided by the war and the choice of its commemorative dates ( such as " Victory Day " , or 18 July ) for the announcement of important political decisions was a tactic frequently used by Franco , reminding people that it was the outcome of the war that had given him the power to alter the country 's course as he thought fit . |
| 8 | Here , through the space of a breath or two , she could live for a moment in the rapturous evening when she and Lal had dressed for the Hunt Ball : the evening that had given her Andrew . |
| 9 | One had tried using a hand-held scanner for the job but had given up because it made too many mistakes . |
| 10 | ‘ The place that did give him a job was the Irish Catholic paper The Standard , which had a very funny editor who just liked to drink most of the day and was amused by Patrick and hired him as film critic . |
| 11 | Tudjman accepted the proposals " in principle " , but Milosevic rejected EC accusations that Serbia was the aggressor in the conflict and refused to give his endorsement to the plan . |
| 12 | During the later Middle Ages the turnover of names had been rapid , but afterwards an important group of middling farmers had put down roots in the parish and had given the community a sense of cohesiveness and continuity . |
| 13 | Full of interest and packed with information and statistics , it was a great performance , but the Dean frankly acknowledged that credit for it was due to Charles Gorham who had prepared the paper and had given it to him to read . |
| 14 | He was by no means unusual for his place and time : there were not a few London families in the mid-19th century who were busy accumulating all the paraphernalia that seemed to give them a gilt-edged claim to middle-class respectability — the portraits , the studio photographs , a family bible , ornate gravestones , even the odd crest and Latin motto . |
| 15 | These debates were eventually brought to a close by Williams , but by this time his fame had spread throughout the islands and had given him a mass following , especially among the lower Creole class . |
| 16 | Reckless driving , contrary to section 2 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 , is committed where D 's driving creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person or of doing substantial damage to property , and where D either saw the risk or failed to give any thought to the risk . |
| 17 | He betrayed no feelings to anyone in the country that had given him asylum . |
| 18 | To remove the distinction completely would seem to undermine the insights that had given force to Bakhtin 's earlier criticism . |
| 19 | Kit Everard was not a vain man , and he knew that even in the encounters that had given Ariel some pleasure ( later , when he 'd learned to check his premature excitement with her ) , she had not cared for him with her heart . |