Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pron] gave " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was not long since every family of considerable substance was haunted by a spirit they called Browny , which did several sorts of work and this was the reason why they gave him offerings on what was called Browny 's stone . |
| 32 | That is the reason why I gave the Prime Minister prior notice of the question . |
| 33 | ‘ I started making hats when I gave up my job and needed something to do . |
| 34 | He had managed to haul himself into a position where he gave rather more and received rather fewer orders and proceeded to look around to see how he could get out of the insurance office where economic necessity had landed him and where he had learned only a flashy taste in clothes and stationery . |
| 35 | She had only been in office a fortnight when she gave a lecture on social services at the ICO . |
| 36 | It seemed perfectly natural that I should spend one evening being waited on by uniformed retainers at the home of an important industrialist whose son I taught , and the next in a seedy bar drinking beer with a group of workers from the factory where I gave private courses in technical English . |
| 37 | ‘ They wasted no time in getting me up to the theatre , and after making the General promise not to take my arm off I gave a running commentary as the ether took effect . |
| 38 | Hospital doctors said Rod was minutes from death when they gave him emergency injections . |
| 39 | The industrialist MP Samuel Morley and others persuaded him to stand down on the grounds that ministers should not directly enter the political arena and Morley paid all his expenses when he gave up the contest . |
| 40 | But his breakthrough came before Christmas when he gave paid performances to children at Middleton school and a Bishop Auckland primary school . |