Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [adv] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's good news for hunting , although I never gave much for Mr Kinnock 's observations in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | But it was only when I punched through the thick , creamy crest and the rainbow mist cleared from my eyes that I finally gave up all hope . |
| 3 | Well they 're probably just asking you , asking for the answer that I just gave you . |
| 4 | So when my parent says to me , give those two units of parental investment that I just gave you , to , to offspring B I do n't want to , because the benefit to offspring B , or rather the genes I share with offspring B , does n't compensate sate me for the , for the sacrifice . |
| 5 | The reason that I just gave , which is the experience of recession . |
| 6 | Locke does suggest , indeed , erm and erm the example that , the rather silly example that I just gave is meant to bring this out , erm that of course those who have only given tacit consent are not full members of that civil society . |
| 7 | I think it 's very hard to separate the two , but it 's a big chicken and egg , to say which came first , the social conditions or the furnishings is erm is very hard to say , but they are , I mean like in that example that I just gave , they 're very strongly tied up . |
| 8 | I was so relieved that I even gave them time to finish their ice creams . |
| 9 | An hour , in which , knowing full well that I never gave interviews , she wrote to your sister , giving her an appointment . ’ |
| 10 | The waves of protest were so strong that I almost gave up there and then . |
| 11 | It seems odd , but I was enjoying myself so much that I hardly gave a thought to the fact that we were alone , miles away from anyone , and that the average man in such a situation … |
| 12 | By the way , I really must correct a false impression that I inadvertently gave just now ; I said you would be permitted to observe our sacred and ancient rites . |
| 13 | Death — she had so longed for it that she hardly gave it a second thought . |
| 14 | In place of these two extremes , we need to be like Mary , Jesus ' mother , who received the word within her , so that she actually gave birth to the Word of God . |
| 15 | Now I 'd hate to think that anybody got the impression that we actually gave them instructions . |
| 16 | The sight of all which struck them with consternation or a kind of horror that they incontinently gave over search and with the utmost hurry and dread , throwing earth and turf to fill up the pit they made , they departed , having neither of them the courage to enter or even inspect into the further circumstances of the place ’ . |
| 17 | Some 400 million years ago , they found ways of surviving out of water and made such a success of life in their new surroundings that they ultimately gave rise to the most numerous and diverse group of all land animals , the insects . |
| 18 | Regrettably for the Palace , Alan found it difficult to adjust to 2nd and then 3rd Division football , where his undoubted skills were given short shrift by our opponents and , although he always gave of his best , he was equally always a heavily marked man . |
| 19 | The last time he called on us after his exhibition at Keighley he seemed a new man , with a delight in having found himself in his painting and amazement that it also gave pleasure to so many others . |
| 20 | that he finally gave way to the tears that had been building up inside him since Michael 's visit . |
| 21 | At golf he was a natural , though conversely his struggles to become a tournament player were such that he nearly gave up to take a club job . |
| 22 | Little wonder that he sometimes gave the impression of inattentiveness in class ; he was inebriated in a world of letters , engulfed by an avalanche of ideas and images , forms and metres , essays and critiques : a fast-changing , provocative kaleidoscope which took his already well-stocked and fertile mind to fresh heights . |
| 23 | But such is his love for the game he has adorned for close on a decade that he never gave up hope of a return to the big time . |
| 24 | Then Ruth saw that he deliberately gave the man who had asked the question only half the bacon ration he was entitled to . |
| 25 | ( So committed has Kandel been to reductionism as philosophy as well as methodology that he once gave a talk to an audience of psychiatrists with the theme of ‘ Psychotherapy and the single synapse ’ . ) |
| 26 | He gave me more more decisions against the workers than he ever gave for them . |
| 27 | Nothing went right and I nearly gave up . |
| 28 | And I just gave you two , two are n't I ? |
| 29 | Periodic relapse occurred over the next 4 months and I then gave Lyc LM1 . |
| 30 | I , I , I 'm , I am absolutely mortified , because , I have to say I think that erm , I got in the car , I do n't have very far to drive from the N E C , erm , twenty minutes and I 'm home , but I go on the M 1 motorway and er , and I never gave it very much thought , and on Monday when I was told Dave , what had happened , erm , there but for the grace of God . |