Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March I gave the whole of the plot a dressing of blood , fish and bone fertiliser . |
| 2 | Secondly , we are told that David I gave the town the muir in 1128 , whereas to the best of our knowledge he did nothing of the sort . |
| 3 | And when I came back , Bobby I gave Grant they and erm he must 've been pretty desperate because he did a wee wee before we left and he did a wee wee before |
| 4 | It was the goals from McStay , McAllister and McClair which gave the Scots a stirring win in Norrkoping , and the bite of McCall which gave them a formidable balance . |
| 5 | The framework of support so established might well lead to a partnership between schools and LEAs which gives more effective support to those working within the institution . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , there are certainly lots of trees , including one known as the Major Oak which gives strength to the legend … |
| 7 | Introductory sales have been made to Poland and Hungary which gives us our first opening into Eastern Europe . |
| 8 | This means blanket testing , which was carried out by 52 of the 92 LEAs who gave information . |
| 9 | It was David who gave the grim reply to the secretary 's question . |
| 10 | From the beginning the audiences also included women , though no women held forth there in the Age of Science of the nineteenth century — when the Curies came to England in 1903 to talk about le radium , it was Pierre and not Marie who gave the Discourse . |
| 11 | For gradually over thousands of years , the Mother Goddess who gave birth to all things had lost her power as people realized that men had a role in procreation . |
| 12 | It was Riego who gave the revolution its programme by declaring on 1 January 1820 for the constitution of 1812 : thus a single man , acting on impulse and without consulting civilians , committed liberalism to the constitution that was to destroy it . |
| 13 | Lisa , her Mum gives her about every Saturday she gives her a tenner , but if she 's going out she gets a lot of money right . |
| 14 | None more so than for four of the oldest surviving players to win Cup medals in the thirties — the Belfast Celtic quartet Sid McIlroy , Norman Kernaghan , Jimmy McAlinden and Harry Walker who gave this appropriate advice to young players — enjoy your football and not make money their God . |
| 15 | We 've seen Turners opposing each other for Australia and New Zealand , Richardses for West Indies and England , Manns for England and South Africa ( they both dismissed each other during the 1948–49 series , but it was George catching Tufty which gave rise to John Arlott 's legendary comment about ‘ Mann 's inhumanity to Mann ’ ) , and yet more Smiths ( T.P.B. and F.B. ) for England and New Zealand and for England ( D.V. ) against West Indies ( O.G. ) . |
| 16 | In May 1412 a treaty ( that of Bourges ) was sealed between Henry IV and the dukes of Berry , Bourbon , and Orléans which gave the English king much of what his predecessors had spent years fighting for : a recognition that Aquitaine was rightfully English , and an undertaking to help the king defend it ; the cession of twenty important towns and castles ; and agreement that certain lands , notably Poitou , were to be held by them of the English crown , and would revert to it when the present holders died . |
| 17 | And Coppell himself gave the Roker manager further cause for relief when he stamped out speculation that he may quit Palace . |
| 18 | Bishop Burnet I gave up with even more regret than the ‘ place . ’ |
| 19 | It was a nice bit of play by Deane which gave Speed the opportunity to translate our complete domination into material advantage . |
| 20 | Of course the burning of one old man can not be described as persecution ; it was in no way a parallel to the persecution in England which gave an instinctively kindly woman the name of Bloody Mary . |
| 21 | Of course it was England which gave cricket toAustralia . |
| 22 | It isolates and ratifies the reason among so many reasons which Stavrogin himself gives : ‘ the disease of indifference ’ . |
| 23 | But it is the potent striking partnership of Dalian Atkinson , who scored Villa 's 11th-minute winner , and Dean Saunders which gives Villa real possibilities . |
| 24 | It is a curious joke of history that it was Stalin who gave Lithuania its capital city ( between the wars it was in Poland ) , and Tito who , in order to weaken great-Serbian chauvinism , created a much larger Croatia with a much larger Serbian minority . |
| 25 | Former Beirut hostage John McCarthy has paid tribute to the staff of RAF Lyneham who gave him help and support after his release . |
| 26 | Christie 's Martin Beisly bid successfully on behalf of a client for Lord Leighton 's ‘ The Bracelet ’ , which sold for £380,000 ( $570,000 ) against underbidding by David Mason of MacConnal-Mason on behalf of Andrew Lloyd Webber who gave the final shake of the head at his side . |
| 27 | I bought a little farm near Oakville some years ago at four thousand an acre … sold it two years ago at fifteen thousand an acre … was n't that lucky ! … after all the hard-up years I lived through … almost starving at times … it was Mr Workman who gave me your address for this letter … poor old Fred … he 's getting old like the rest of us … |
| 28 | When he turned his head to look at Turakina she gave a gasp of annoyance and let go of the half-plaited queue . |
| 29 | Even they could consider themselves lucky compared with the shackled Italians torpedoed on the Arandora Star on their way to Canada , or other internees beaten and robbed on their way to Australia by British officers and NCOs on the Dunera who gave a pretty good imitation of Hitler 's Stormtroopers . |
| 30 | It was Simon who gave that impression behind my back . |