Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father paid for my digs in Paddington and gave me a pound a week pocket money , together with what he called ‘ travelling expenses ’ for my regular visit home ( home and a good , square meal ) , and to spend some time with Clare who was fifteen and slowly , very slowly , improving . |
| 2 | I went to see Suor Eusebia and gave her a message to deliver to Eric when the attention of the carabinieri was else where . |
| 3 | It was the Royal College for the Blind at Hereford that gave him new inspiration by teaching him how to sculpt . |
| 4 | He looked back at Kim and gave him a small bow . |
| 5 | She did , however , slip next door to May and gave her a rough sketch of what had happened , right up to the Syrup of Figs . |
| 6 | Mr Taylor travelled back to Aberdeen and gave them to Murray . |
| 7 | A couple of hours earlier , on a hunch , Hermann Goering rang down to his main office in Carinhall and gave them a Stockholm number to obtain . |
| 8 | He was buried the following day under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard , an Austrian Nazi who befriended him in Brazil and gave him his identity papers before returning to Vienna . |
| 9 | They are the first known lords of the manor of Cosmeston and gave their name to the village , Costentinstune ( the place of the Costentins ) . |
| 10 | He kissed Amelia and gave her a Christmas card . |
| 11 | However , he and Earl Tostig Godwinsson [ q.v. ] were robbed by brigands on their way home , and forced to return to Rome , where Nicholas reinstated Ealdred and gave him the pallium , while insisting that he give up Worcester . |
| 12 | That very same evening he appeared on the bandstand in Woodford Square and gave his first speech under the auspices of the P.E.M. The speech turned out to be nothing less than a vitriolic attack on the Commission , which he portrayed as an organisation run by ‘ hide- bound conservatives in the British Colonial service ’ . |
| 13 | To choose one of many examples , I can point to the case of Nottingham-born Herol Graham , whose parents came from Jamaica and gave him no support in his sporting endeavours , at first in sprinting and then in boxing where he made his mark as a light-middleweight . |
| 14 | Bob Eaton , the man who brought Lotus to GM and gave us the Calibra , is about to become chairman of Chrysler . |
| 15 | When he was out of danger and questioned about relatives , he told them , somewhat reluctantly , that he had a sister living in South Africa and gave them Pat 's married name and address . |
| 16 | The boss went to Calgary and gave me the day off . ’ |
| 17 | Some time later Mehmed II repented of his action , invited Molla Husrev back to Istanbul and gave him the office of Mufti . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's a shame , ’ said Miranda and gave her hair three strokes backwards with her brush to make it puff . |
| 19 | She went over to Shelley and gave him a book , telling him that Claire Claremont was sitting by little William — ‘ Willmouse ’ , she called him — and writing letters home . |
| 20 | In setting himself such a standard , Herbert sought to fulfil the ambition expressed when he was ordained : ‘ Though the iniquity of the late times have made clergymen meanly valued and the sacred name of priest contemptible ; yet I will labour to make it honourable , by consecrating all my learning and all my poor abilities to advance the glory of God that gave them . ’ |
| 21 | Donald , alas , had been dead for thirty years when Hilary Spurling published her admirable biography Ivy when Young and gave us the answers to our questions . |
| 22 | And , on the other side , one outcome of the Truce of Orléans was that Charles took the abbacy of Ferrières away from Odo and gave it to a member of the community whose chief recommendation ( with still more pull than his fine scholarship ) was a readiness to commit himself to Charles . |
| 23 | Meanwhile in August 1982 , Clark visited Allison and gave him a copy of his paper for Infection and Immunity . |
| 24 | Radio controller John Fletcher grabbed four-month-old Lauren McNamara and gave her the kiss of life as her face turned blue from lack of oxygen . |
| 25 | Met Stetson and gave him an earful . |
| 26 | Somebody told me we were halfway to Maun and gave me some water which I was too thirsty to sterilise . |
| 27 | So the man who unified Italy and gave his name to a biscuit bought his shirts in Aysgarth . |
| 28 | He looked at Caroline and gave her a smile that never reached his eyes . |
| 29 | As Countess of Glencairn , Elizabeth remembered her old friend and employer , John Tennant ; she appointed him Factor of her estate at Ochiltree and gave him tenancy of Glenconner Farm on the estate . |
| 30 | He played a leading role in the $5m deal with Morrow that gave his novel Whirlwind a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the recipient of the highest ever advance for a single work of fiction . |