Example sentences of "[conj] gave [pron] [noun sg] " 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 | Some of the smokers were aware of his campaign against passive smoking — the kind that gave him cancer in smoke-tarred clubs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There was a purposeful look now in her eyes that gave him pause . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | There must have been something about Sir Paul that gave him confidence . |
| 9 | One member , Bill Corless , particularly liked the exercises that gave him suppleness and flow . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | There was something in his voice that gave her hope . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | That was another thing that gave her pleasure ; to listen to Ben playing his whistle . |
| 19 | Oh , yes , she 'd had relationships — light , amiable things that gave her pleasure while they lasted , and no pain when they ended . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In France , Joffre , though discredited , was appointed Chief Military Adviser to the Government , a titular post that gave his incompetence less scope . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But the electron carries a high energy transverse to the direction of the collision , and thus bears the signature of the W particle that gave it birth . |
| 24 | Still lacking is the 625 MMU/cache , a redesign of an older model that gave it trouble and caused delays in the past . |
| 25 | The environment that gave us opportunity was so dissimilar from that of the present as to seem more remote in time than it is . |
| 26 | he never made any thing else in his image , but he made you to be created in his image and with that there 's that status , were not just a more intelligent animal , were not just something else that God made even , but were that , that peak of his creative genius , the peak of it , the very pinnacle of it , not because of what we are , but because of the image , the pattern that he was using , his own self , created us in his image , so that gave us status but it gives us responsibility . |
| 27 | Worked himself into a frenzy and gave himself indigestion . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus . |
| 29 | ‘ Ah , well , be fair — my mother got me up and gave me breakfast , ’ Mitch said bravely . |
| 30 | She 's lonely and she plied me with tea and scones and the rest , and gave me information about her neighbours , whom she seems to like quite a bit . |