Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] gave [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reg Akehurst 's charge was a firm favourite for that contest and gave his backers not the slightest hint of a scare when leading at the furlong pole to score by a length-and-a-half. way off the pace makes an accurate assessment of his progress very difficult for the handicapper , but this observer is convinced there is significant improvement still to come . |
| 2 | This production , which updates the play and sets it in the sixties , toured the Continent and gave our company the reputation it now enjoys there . |
| 3 | One of Charles Tennant 's business partners was a young Glasgow chemist called Charles Mackintosh , the man who later gained world-wide recognition for his invention of a waterproof fabric and gave his name to a raincoat made of the material . |
| 4 | Angela stripe , co-owner of Clayton-Stripe International and a former member of Britain 's World Cup team , took one Madonna look-alike and gave her five fab hairstyles ! |
| 5 | He balanced the empty whisky glass on the window-sill and gave his nose a last wipe , pocketing his hanky . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | In France , Joffre , though discredited , was appointed Chief Military Adviser to the Government , a titular post that gave his incompetence less scope . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But Bugatti was an innovator and it was his work at suspension development that gave his cars the edge over his rivals . |
| 11 | Robyn thought as she glanced out of the window , re-reading the sign that gave her enormous satisfaction every time she had occasion to see it . |
| 12 | He admitted his real name and gave his address as Randolph Terrace , Evenwood . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ If she took her poor child back to his father and gave her husband a second chance , she would n't need money . ’ |
| 15 | On a celebrated occasion in Wales a county court judge sitting in a civil case in Bridgend had not completed the case when the train was due to leave , so he continued it on the train and gave his final judgement in the station-master 's office at Llantrisant . |
| 16 | She washed swiftly , brushed her drying hair into softer curls , then flicked on some mascara and gave her lips a touch of colour before bearding the lion in his den . |
| 17 | She went to the counter and gave her order , then as she sat down again , she said , ‘ I mean it , Sophie . |
| 18 | When the sales were on , ‘ he 'd put his hand in his pocket and gave my mother sovereigns — ‘ Go and get them all something . ’ |
| 19 | Anselm , glad to escape from the secular snares into a world he understood , refused the king 's demand and gave his proffered £500 to the poor . |
| 20 | It was his sense of history , part romantic , part Christian , and his sense of American society that gave his films their dramatic and visual power . |
| 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 | There was something in his voice that gave her hope . |
| 23 | Camille fell to her knees from the sofa and gave her mother 's leg a patronizing pat . |
| 24 | He was offered a test drive and gave his verdict ; a big thumbs up , before he even left the gate . |
| 25 | He turned up his coat collar and gave his eyes time to adjust to the thickness of the night fog . |
| 26 | Apparently , a Polish scientist analysed a meteorite and gave its composition , which including undetermined material added up to 100 000 . |
| 27 | That was another thing that gave her pleasure ; to listen to Ben playing his whistle . |
| 28 | He was not wise in the affairs of the world , nor did he wish to be : he simply challenged the normal assumptions of the world and gave his attention to eternal truths and individual souls . |
| 29 | She came to the hospital and gave her details . |
| 30 | But Felix Road was n't in the main town , nor yet on the outskirts ; it was situated to the north of the city and gave its name to the acres of housing that was home to the poor , the destitute , and the dregs of humanity . |