Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [pron] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are coats of arms all around the Chamber of hon. Members who gave their lives for peace in Europe . |
| 2 | Cissie Fairchild , through investigating the statements of French women who gave birth to illegitimate babies , has challenged Shorter on his own terms . |
| 3 | Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting . |
| 4 | The colonial period ushered in an era of foreign investment which gave the large scale trading houses of Europe a hold on the development of local economies allowing little room for Africa 's entrepreneurs to develop their skills . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Shirley gave Jenna the sort of suspicious look she gave her children when they sniffed with an approaching cold . |
| 7 | John Lehmann had such confidence in Minton 's design sense that when he handed to him the typescript of Elizabeth David 's A Book of Mediterranean Food he gave him carte blanche to do as he liked with it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In France the factionalism from which the country suffered was largely inspired by the nobility , so that command of the army , as the tragedy experienced at Agincourt in 1415 demonstrated , was chiefly in the hands of noble leaders who gave the army a character as noble as it had had in the 1330s . |
| 10 | The Secretary of State accepted the TGAT report as a basis for progress and commissioned further reports from the Group including one on the problems of practical implementation which gave a glimpse of the elaborate machinery that would be necessary . |
| 11 | The examples of external critique I gave earlier show how this works in practice , but other more pointed examples can easily be identified . |
| 12 | I still have that little book of selected poems you gave me on my twelfth birthday . |
| 13 | 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 . |