Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] gave they " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the process of sexual selection , certain males were said to develop characteristics that gave them the edge over other males in the competition for females . |
| 2 | All of the walking species had the widely-splayed legs that gave them a slow and lumbering gait , but , in the absence of more streamlined animals , they prospered . |
| 3 | In short Moses Moses revealed to that like the Egyptians each generation of Jews that gave them their character in general which is that today |
| 4 | They recorded the usual four songs and gave them both English and Ukrainian names . |
| 5 | The city , he continues , was a ‘ sign of capital ’ ; it ‘ took up and eviscerated the varieties of social practice and gave them back with ventriloqual precision ’ . |
| 6 | He terrified the inhabitants of Staufen Swabia , confiscated fiefs which had been conferred on ecclesiastics and gave them to his Saxon and English supporters . |
| 7 | Tom picked up Willie 's three books and gave them to him to carry . |
| 8 | If they had difficulties then I broke each stage down into small steps and gave them repeated practice . |
| 9 | The girl singer was in good voice by the pool , singing some sentimental Spanish favourites , with that wistful lilt that gave them their distinctive charm . |
| 10 | The residents complain to the city council that gave them the land — and discover that it has now designated the area as a garbage dump . |
| 11 | She wrapped up the clogs and gave them back to me with the instruction that I was only to wear the shoes when I came to call . |
| 12 | Mr Taylor travelled back to Aberdeen and gave them to Murray . |
| 13 | I found the main control lines and gave them to Esmerelda , showing her how to hold them , and where . |
| 14 | If you struggled with rollers and gave them up as a bad job about ten years ago , you 'll be surprised at the simplicity of the latest setting appliances . |
| 15 | I hired a karaoke machine , went down the pub and gave 'em a few numbers ; ‘ Girl From Ipanema ’ , ‘ I Write The Songs ’ . |
| 16 | A couple of hours earlier , on a hunch , Hermann Goering rang down to his main office in Carinhall and gave them a Stockholm number to obtain . |
| 17 | Then , since the fisherman did not come home , every morning she took his supper to the cliff-side and fed it to the wild snakes ; every noon she took the hempen nets and gave them to the sea-birds to build their nests . |
| 18 | They began a long march back to Capel Curig with no hope of making closing time — when a touring couple took pity and gave them a lift straight to the pub . |
| 19 | It was the young Scots ' first win in four outings and gave them an outside chance of qualifying for the latter stages of the championship . |
| 20 | Pieces of pine from apple cases became cricket bats , tennis rackets or hockey sticks and gave them endless hours of pleasure . |
| 21 | Flaubert delighted in their presence and gave them money . |
| 22 | There was no one in the office , the entire sales team having discovered important appointments that gave them excuses to sneak off home and start the weekend early . |
| 23 | Eileen 's commanding officer took them to a room and gave them tea , and tried to explain to them that it was better for her to remain . |
| 24 | Thus the ‘ qualities ’ covered a wider range of sports but gave them proportionately much less space overall than the populars . |
| 25 | What is interesting about them is that while the development corporations acquired powers that gave them a great deal of autonomy within their own territories , there is today a variety of questions to be raised about the extent to which their ‘ success ’ was secured at the expense of other policies to which they ‘ ought ’ to have related . |
| 26 | Capitalist economic relations were established in the countryside through the ‘ enclosures ’ , where land became the private property of landowners and the rural work-force was stripped of the land-use rights that gave them an independent source of subsistence . |
| 27 | When he was out of danger and questioned about relatives , he told them , somewhat reluctantly , that he had a sister living in South Africa and gave them Pat 's married name and address . |
| 28 | before he was married his employer pictures off the wall and gave them to him |
| 29 | The single median fins down the mid-line of their backs or undersides prevented them from spinning in the water and gave them a degree of stability , but none had paired lateral fins . |
| 30 | Philpott lowered the newspaper and gave them a wry smile . |