Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] gave [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ensuing exchange over the months turned the whole cast of Balzac 's Comédie Humaine into Katherine 's familiars and gave her an awareness of greed and ambition , love and betrayal far beyond her years . |
| 2 | They recorded the usual four songs and gave them both English and Ukrainian names . |
| 3 | The woman at the door raised weary , gold-lidded eyes and gave her an anonymous welcoming smile . |
| 4 | I opened my eyes and gave him a puzzled look . |
| 5 | It was alleged by his widow that Thomas Flete , as agent of Clemens , ‘ … him feloniously slew and murdered and clove his head in four parties and gave him ten deadly wounds in his body and when he was dead they cut off one of his legs and one of his arms and his head from his body to make him sure ’ . |
| 6 | Mum came in from the shops and gave us the news that , starting from September , we are to have 2 morning services . |
| 7 | He shrugged his broad shoulders and gave her a warm smile . |
| 8 | They shared a commiserating smile , and Mick put his arm around her shoulders and gave her a friendly hug . |
| 9 | He terrified the inhabitants of Staufen Swabia , confiscated fiefs which had been conferred on ecclesiastics and gave them to his Saxon and English supporters . |
| 10 | Tom picked up Willie 's three books and gave them to him to carry . |
| 11 | If they had difficulties then I broke each stage down into small steps and gave them repeated practice . |
| 12 | Thacker put his hands back in his pockets and gave her a pitying look . |
| 13 | She wrapped up the clogs and gave them back to me with the instruction that I was only to wear the shoes when I came to call . |
| 14 | I found the main control lines and gave them to Esmerelda , showing her how to hold them , and where . |
| 15 | If you struggled with rollers and gave them up as a bad job about ten years ago , you 'll be surprised at the simplicity of the latest setting appliances . |
| 16 | He stared back and , blushing with confusion , she rose to her feet and gave him a little bob . |
| 17 | Then , since the fisherman did not come home , every morning she took his supper to the cliff-side and fed it to the wild snakes ; every noon she took the hempen nets and gave them to the sea-birds to build their nests . |
| 18 | I said , I said we 've been doing boundaries for the trial park today and they ran out of passes and gave us these and said they 'd be alright . |
| 19 | Any account of English book illustration would be inadequate without a tribute to Edmund Evans ( 1826–1905 ) who brought to a wonderful peak of success the revival of the art of colour printing from wood blocks and gave us the delightful colour plate books of Kate Greenaway , ’ Richard E. Doyle , Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane . |
| 20 | It was the young Scots ' first win in four outings and gave them an outside chance of qualifying for the latter stages of the championship . |
| 21 | She made him take tap classes to loosen his ankles and gave him daily exercises to do under her assistant 's instruction . |
| 22 | He smoothed the paper with his fingers and gave it to her . |
| 23 | Pieces of pine from apple cases became cricket bats , tennis rackets or hockey sticks and gave them endless hours of pleasure . |
| 24 | Chris Renninson set Hibberd away down the right and his excellent control took him past two defenders and gave him the time and space to send over a pinpoint cross to O'Shea , who rose unchallenged to head home from close range . |
| 25 | The man wiped his hands ineffectually on his hips and gave her a limp handshake . |
| 26 | He put his hands on his hips and gave me a kind of larky look . |
| 27 | I wrote to him every few days and gave him the details of everything that happened and everyone I met . |
| 28 | Thus the ‘ qualities ’ covered a wider range of sports but gave them proportionately much less space overall than the populars . |
| 29 | He was a taxi driver in Newton Aycliffe for two years but gave it up as it was ‘ soul-destroying ’ . |
| 30 | The stoma care nurse arranged that she would visit Mr Reynolds when he had been home 48 hours but gave him her telephone number in case he needed help before then . |