Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] gave [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The title ‘ administrative criminology ’ is of significance in that it is the title that Vold gave to the classical criminology of Beccaria and Bentham ( as we saw in Chapter 1 ) . |
| 2 | A somewhat different tone began to emerge relatively quickly , particularly in an address that Gorbachev gave to British members of parliament later the same month . |
| 3 | His conversation had the inconsequence that Chekhov gave to his older characters and it was larded with Russian proverbs , many of which he was suspected of having invented himself . |
| 4 | The spectre of quotas was the reason that businessmen gave for opposing the civil-rights bill the president vetoed last October . |
| 5 | No one can fault the absolute loyalty that Willie gave to Ted and then Margaret . |
| 6 | ‘ This is a promise that God gave to Abraham , ’ North said Reagan had told him , in the slightly hectoring tone he always had in the North dreams ; ‘ Who am I to say that we should not do this ? ’ |
| 7 | This er , although it 's not on your reading list , erm , the reading list that Bob gave to you , er , it , it should be . |
| 8 | This is one of the few indications that Eliot gave of the fact that , in the periods between illness when he carried on with his ordinary duties in London ( as much as anyone 's life was " ordinary " then ) , he experienced the horror of the German raids : the nightly bombings , the streets blocked with rubble , the glow in the evening as fires burned throughout the city , and the peculiarly dank smell of ruined buildings : it was this which provoked fear , precluded concentration on other things , and destroyed the will to work . |
| 9 | Therefore I have taken the different topics in the order that my sources thought appropriate and provided references to at least some of the specific instances of those problems that Howard gave in his text . |
| 10 | And Thorfinn gave to them his considered answers , as ever . |
| 11 | Similarly , Cnut and Emma gave to Abingdon a reliquary for the remains of St Vincent which bore upon it the inscription " King Cnut and Queen Ælfgifu commanded the making of this reliquary from 230 gold mancuses , refined by fire , and two pounds of silver of great weight " . |
| 12 | Nora did not say it but she and John gave between three and four thousand pounds a year to these various causes . |
| 13 | I hope you 're not going to give me as much trouble as Puck gave to the lovers in the play , ’ Lucenzo murmured , a sliver of steel-tipped menace in his tone . |