Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pron] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two months later she gave birth to a female child who was born with club feet . |
| 2 | A FEW MONTHS AGO I GAVE MY IMPRESSIONS of the sort of thing a typical record critic tends to look for in putting together a review . |
| 3 | Eighteen months ago it gave up its monopoly of politics but it continued to exist and it continued really as a kind of dog in the manger to prevent the er establishment of normal multi-party politics . |
| 4 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 5 | Social ostracism followed outbursts of silliness , hubby drank a lot , did n't hit her often but did bad-mouth her excessively , and took up fishing ; went away for weekends with male friends she 'd never heard of , Claimed to be tackling rivers but kept bringing home filleted sea fish on the Sunday night , and was always suspiciously careful to empty his pockets when he gave her his clothes to wash . |
| 6 | The 26-year-old Owens has not fought since last May when he gave a brilliant display to out-point Middlesbrough 's Graham O'Malley . |
| 7 | I had er put a promotion together with a few travel agents in Scotland where I gave out holiday spending money . |
| 8 | A moment later she gave an exclamation of relief . |
| 9 | So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at |
| 10 | Four years later they gave the 368 children left in the study standard reading and spelling tests . |
| 11 | ‘ Seven years later they gave him a parish of his own . |
| 12 | Some years ago he gave a sequence of exciting and idiosyncratic lectures on physics to students at Caltech . |
| 13 | ‘ A few years ago I gave a lecture at Preston Polytechnic and afterwards nine black girls , some of them with toddlers , stayed behind and we began to talk . |
| 14 | Len was silent for a moment then he gave a huge sigh and when he spoke again there was a note of hopelessness in his voice and no sign of the bravado he had shown only moments earlier . |
| 15 | If their memories dwelt on the pains , they would quickly push themselves to a point where they gave up running altogether . |
| 16 | as a follow up to the statement that was made on the evening , on the Sunday evening when you gave your explanation when made the point about the visit for a weekend away , or a day away , and to involve the parishioners . |
| 17 | So I forgot about him , at least until that evening when I gave Ellen some practice with the sextant . |
| 18 | You 've been there quite a whi well yes you 'd been there seven years when you gave up had n't you ? |
| 19 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 20 | A little while later he gave his horses a rest , and returned to the spot they had refused to pass . |
| 21 | Fraser Digby was trying to save the day when he gave away a penalty … |
| 22 | Fraser Digby was trying to save the day when he gave away a penalty … |
| 23 | When we were seated facing each other again she gave me a ball of pink wool and a pair of knitting needles and I had my first lesson in how to knit properly without dropping stitches . |
| 24 | His face was infuriatingly bland as he answered , ‘ Did n't you tell me that night when I gave you a lift home that your life fairly buzzed with — shall we say — events ? ’ |
| 25 | JUNIOR education minister William Shelton did not know whether he was coming or going last week when he gave an experimental communications system known as Project Universe its first public airing . |
| 26 | The probe was announced by Mr Lamont last month when he gave evidence to the Commons Treasury Select Committee . |
| 27 | Oh yes , they were a bit pleased but straight away they started getting , you know Alex was getting tired so we were getting can I get it out , can I get this out , can I get that and it were half open and I was frightened of losing the bits so I gave him one and he said no he did n't want that one he wanted the other one , so I give him another one and then I nearly gave him a clout . |
| 28 | We talked a bit then I gave him a lift back to his hotel . |
| 29 | Bucknor came under fire on Thursday when he gave Jonty Rhodes not out without consulting a third umpire with access to television replays — which clearly showed the South African had been run out . |
| 30 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |