Example sentences of "were [adj] [coord] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will return and tell Prince Rainbow that the lung 's guard were foolish and gave me such treatment as one might expect from a crowd of flea-bitten louts . " |
| 2 | Both , as it turns out , were wrong and gave ‘ invalid drive specification ’ messages when trying to change to drive C after booting from the A drive . |
| 3 | And our feeling , if if my memory serves me right , was that we felt that our site safety courses were adequate and gave |
| 4 | I wanted to say , as I believed , that the consul was an English person of good sense with a proper grasp of facts , but I was too well brought up to state unequivocally that all foreigners , including Nour , were superstitious and given to exaggeration and unnecessary alarms . |
| 5 | ‘ You were warm and giving in my arms until , in an understandable moment of shyness , you backed away . |
| 6 | There are good grounds for thinking that to a significant degree home and foreign capital markets were separate and gave rise to quite different levels of investment expectations . |
| 7 | Among those who were horrified and given great difficulty by the music were the players of the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra . |
| 8 | He disputed figures in The Northern Echo poll which said 15pc were undecided and gave Labour an 11pc lead . |
| 9 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |
| 10 | Eggs laid by hens during Lent were hard-boiled and given to children to play with . |