Example sentences of "[conj] gave [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had a pale beauty in the moonlight that gave him more unexpected enchantment . |
| 2 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
| 3 | The gentle , careful , intelligent eyes that gave nothing away while leaving you with the impression that you and what you were saying were the most intelligent things she had ever beheld and heard . |
| 4 | But , as she looked up into his dark eyes that gave nothing away , and battled furiously against the pride that would have held her back from pressing her question , suddenly the sun came out . |
| 5 | ‘ Well … it was her feet that gave her away . ’ |
| 6 | Shiona watched it , reflecting that the reason for her sensitivity was that her private life was the only area of her existence that gave her absolutely no satisfaction at all . |
| 7 | The throw took her by surprise , was sharp and strong , and went a little wide , so that it was only the experience of three younger brothers that gave her quick enough reflexes to shoot an arm out sideways to take the catch . |
| 8 | FRANKMOBILE : A certain tour van that gave us so much pleasure and pain during the first six months of this year . |
| 9 | They inhabited their silence and gave nothing away . |
| 10 | Back into the cottage he showed her the way and gave her so |
| 11 | Diana said I looked ill , and needed a holiday at the seaside , but St John thought I ought to concentrate on more serious work , and gave me even more Hindustani exercises to do . |
| 12 | One simple word , and his voice caught on it and gave him away . |
| 13 | He invested £60,000 in his obsession with a venture which broke his health and gave him only £12,000 back . |
| 14 | That , I believe , was because we moved him a bit upmarket in his packaging , and gave him more thriller-style covers . |
| 15 | She made him take tap classes to loosen his ankles and gave him daily exercises to do under her assistant 's instruction . |
| 16 | The studio thinks Vic 's a genius and gave him as much as they could until the insurance boys dug their heels in over big-name leads falling out of a canoe and then they went down the list and found a couple of guys the industry could afford to lose . |
| 17 | When we got there one o one of the other boys was was already there with him and he was covered from about his waist down with coal and er we uncovered him and gave him as comfortable as we could get him until we got the stretchers and everything mobilize him and get him out . |
| 18 | Sometimes he forgot and gave them again , which she took to be a good sign . |
| 19 | The new conditions offered no incentive payment to encourage banks to sign early , and gave them only two choices : ( i ) to exchange their loans for 30-year bonds with a discounted face value of 35 per cent ; or ( ii ) to exchange loans for " par " bonds , denominated in either US dollars or German marks , which carried pre-set concessional interest rates . |
| 20 | This freed the geologists from this task and gave them more time to write memoirs . |
| 21 | County and district councillors came along and after searching questions , agreed with our plan wholeheartedly and gave us very good advice . |
| 22 | I think the US is in trouble and gave us too much credit . |
| 23 | We had the match in our grasp and gave it away , ’ he said . |
| 24 | We read the , read the agreements differently to what they did but he 'd lean towards the drivers , conductors and he gave away a lot of what had tried to erm stop them from having because they were n't really entitled to it but he saw differently and gave it away and course once you 've given it away you , no way of retracting it , but then came in and , well , I mean he was a real transport man , his , his vision and his ideas were really good and he made it what it is today . |
| 25 | Thus the ‘ qualities ’ covered a wider range of sports but gave them proportionately much less space overall than the populars . |
| 26 | The discussion of this chapter so far might perhaps be summed up by noting that Lakatos aimed to give a rationalist account of science but failed , whilst Kuhn denied that he aimed to give a relativist account of science but gave one nevertheless . |
| 27 | As in the past , James 's smile promised everything but gave nothing away . |