Example sentences of "[pron] give birth [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the night of 20–21 April 1808 I gave birth to a son . |
| 2 | She did n't tell me what I was doing , so all right , I pushed , and I gave birth to the afterbirth and thought , Oh , that 's why she wanted me to push . |
| 3 | Every little thing concerning Jacob turned into a private battle between Rachel and I. When I gave birth to Reuben , I believed that my husband must love me for giving him a son . |
| 4 | I gave birth at the University Hospital . |
| 5 | This development of a character style happened after Napoleon 's campaigns which gave birth to the so-called National movements . |
| 6 | The diversity of papers produced for the conference in November 1988 which gave birth to the association , as well as the enthusiastic reception accorded to the novelist and film maker Sembene Ousmane when he addressed the participants , suggest that the teaching of African literature in French has not involved the depoliticisation of its content that often occurs when works of art become the object of academic study . |
| 7 | The Entwined Serpents which gave birth to the symbol of the medical profession , the Caduceus , later became in Greek mythology the Staff of Hermes , the Messenger of the Gods . |
| 8 | Wonderfully intense , concentrated in feeling , this performance brings one closer than almost any rival to the awesome times which gave birth to this extraordinary work . |
| 9 | He created the conferences which gave birth to the International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies and was the leading figure in the postwar rise of those studies outside the Anglo-Saxon world . |
| 10 | It was the wind tunnel which gave birth to the characteristic shape of the Boeing 747 . |
| 11 | The occupation at Nanterre which gave birth to the 22 Mars movement was to protest against this proposal . |
| 12 | One thing all the writers share is an agreement that the progress to the special knowledge in the game of faith involves a reordering and an integration of the personality which gives birth to an essential lightness of spirit within man . |
| 13 | Not only may she give birth to as many as nine babies at a time , but she may have as many as seventeen litters in a breeding season and she is thus capable of producing a hundred and fifty young a year . |
| 14 | And one of this year 's vice-presidents of the association is a farmer 's daughter who became a farmer 's wife who gave birth to three sons , and whose special interests include farming . |
| 15 | This trial was repeated in the life of one of her daughters , Mary , who gave birth to a son a week after being widowed in 1737 . |
| 16 | Much more recently , in 1981 , there was a newspaper report of a Chinese she-mule who gave birth to a foal in Honan Province ; the sire was a donkey and the offspring a mule like its mother . |
| 17 | The most significant thing about each phenomenon presented in the previous pages is not the nature of the phenomenon itself , but the underpinning — the workings of the consciousness of those who gave birth to such realities and their regard for consciousness as the primary concern in the adventure of life itself , as everything proceeds from it . |
| 18 | Indeed , industry observers say it was the swingers who gave birth to the home porn video in the early-Eighties . |
| 19 | It is people like him who gave birth to people like Adolf Hitler . |
| 20 | The human mother who gave birth to a deformed , bestial hybrid would dote on it blindly , as protective as a tiger of her cub , and as cunning . |
| 21 | Cissie Fairchild , through investigating the statements of French women who gave birth to illegitimate babies , has challenged Shorter on his own terms . |
| 22 | ‘ In this same room I once helped a pretty young woman who came in with cut and bleeding feet , who gave birth to a boy and then died . ’ |
| 23 | Happy is the mother who gave birth to you , and happy the uncle who has such a courageous nephew ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm looking for someone who gave birth to a baby at Thorn House . ’ |
| 26 | His wife Tracey , who gave birth to their daughter Charlotte only last year , is said to be devastated and is being comforted by family and friends today . |
| 27 | His daughter Amanda Hill , 22 , who gave birth to Lee Michael at Darlington Memorial Hospital , has worked in the family business for five years . |
| 28 | Tsitsi Vera and Noreen Welch , co-anchors of the main news , ‘ lost their composure ’ when Vera read a report of a woman who gave birth in the toilet of a train . |
| 29 | Their mothers , who gave birth in the same delivery room , were in separate wards . |
| 30 | Now researchers think that the sudden drop in oestrogen-type hormones after she gives birth to her baby may spark off rheumatoid arthritis |