Example sentences of "[conj] gave [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Societies would like to express their thanks to the many people who loaned exhibits or gave their time helping to organise the events and providing refreshments . |
| 2 | On two days , since the sun had abandoned the East , we fled to the West Coast ( Scotland is very narrow just there ) where is shone magnificently , & gave our egos a boost by some moderated , strenuous hill-climbing . |
| 3 | Some of the smokers were aware of his campaign against passive smoking — the kind that gave him cancer in smoke-tarred clubs . |
| 4 | Belonging here defined him , made him free to wander , because here he had roots to return to , an anchor that gave him stability and a sense of permanence . |
| 5 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 6 | There was a purposeful look now in her eyes that gave him pause . |
| 7 | In the end it was the regular-footer Elkerton 's ability to hit for six every type of wave — leg-breaks , off-breaks , googlies , head-severing bouncers — that the Pacific could bowl at him that gave him supremacy . |
| 8 | It drifted and swirled about him , making him peaceful and tired , until his sense of loss began to go and the night was no longer awesome , for he had the protection of a Callanish eagle near him , and that gave him peace to rest and sleep at last … |
| 9 | There must have been something about Sir Paul that gave him confidence . |
| 10 | One member , Bill Corless , particularly liked the exercises that gave him suppleness and flow . |
| 11 | His talents were demonstrated through a system that gave him opportunities and brought out the best in him . |
| 12 | What else could lead researchers to test the ultimate laws of nature with machines bigger than the ancient state of Athens , or to seek to live in space , cast adrift from the world that gave them birth ? |
| 13 | The will that gave them title had been written on a torn-out page of a 1938 diary , the only paper available when the family learnt of their imminent fate in the gas chamber . |
| 14 | You remember those things : they littered the creeks and bywaters of harbours , slowly returning to nature , back to the trees and minerals that gave them life . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This is the daddy of all geysirs , the one that gave its name to the ( now better-known ) hot-water spouts elsewhere in the world . |
| 17 | If there was a choice of department within a region , we chose the one that gave its nurse practitioners most responsibility as we assumed that its nurse practitioners would fulfil the role most completely , enabling us to examine the role more effectively . |
| 18 | The Jesuits were expelled ( 1767 ) from both Spain and Spanish America — a measure that gave its author , Aranda , a European reputation as an esprit fort — and the reformers attempted to turn the universities into state-controlled educational institutions teaching useful knowledge instead of Aristotelean ‘ words ’ . |
| 19 | There was something in his voice that gave her hope . |
| 20 | Ironically , it was Artemesia 's horrendous experience that gave her talent focus , strength and direction — hence her paintings of heroic women and paintings that capture the disturbing sense of sexual threat and graphic display of woman 's vengence — voicing Artemesia Gentileschi 's own anger and rage . ’ |
| 21 | Her face was rather pinched , tapering to a pointed chin that gave her features a look of severity not mirrored in her voice . |
| 22 | She had dabbed powder over her lipstick to rob it of its bright crimson lustre , and she had forgotten the little pink patches of rouge that gave her cheeks their rosy healthy glow . |
| 23 | That was another thing that gave her pleasure ; to listen to Ben playing his whistle . |
| 24 | Oh , yes , she 'd had relationships — light , amiable things that gave her pleasure while they lasted , and no pain when they ended . |
| 25 | Prior to getting around to the job I have to do , and that is to honour those men that gave their lives so that we could be free , I 'd like to just share a few things with you as we return to this wonderful country . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , help , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I suppose that gave 'er ideas . ’ |
| 27 | It was not Billingsley 's physical size that provoked that fear , for I was of a size with him , nor was it his profession that gave me pause , but rather the aura of incipient violence that he radiated like a blast furnace . |
| 28 | In France , Joffre , though discredited , was appointed Chief Military Adviser to the Government , a titular post that gave his incompetence less scope . |
| 29 | With a slow smile that gave his face quite extraordinary charm , he picked up his bowl , waved a languid hand , then turned and ambled back across the garden , his borrowings clutched ridiculously to his large chest . |
| 30 | And it was surely not merely over-confidence of his good usage here that gave his eyes that insolent green blaze , and his voice the sharp , clear edge of defiance . |