Example sentences of "the [noun pl] gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an 11-handicapper who does not play quite as often as she would like , I found the clubs gave me more consistency and greater ‘ feel ’ . |
| 2 | Hire-purchase was used in England for pianos , furniture , and sewing machines ; after a slight hiccup , the courts gave their imprimatur . |
| 3 | The court therefore has to approach its construction on the footing that the new Act may exhibit policies and intentions which are not necessarily the same as those in the earlier Act , and which require similar words to be given different meanings from those which the courts gave them under the earlier legislation . |
| 4 | One of the reasons why pressure from reform-minded people outside the ranks of the government intensified in 1858 derived from the fact that , up to a point , the authorities gave it their blessing . |
| 5 | The parentheses gave her a sense of not existing , un-being perhaps was not too strong a word . |
| 6 | ‘ I found the last 20 minutes extremely hard but the lads gave me every encouragement and I am delighted , ’ he said . |
| 7 | A board on the outskirts gave its name as Sècheron and listed times of Holy Mass . |
| 8 | The guards gave us a cigarette each and then left . |
| 9 | All the authors gave their manuscripts free , to help make Burma and its people better known , not only to the men of the forces , but more widely . |
| 10 | It scarcely mattered , since only one of the passers-by gave them anything . |
| 11 | ( Act 1 scene 3 ) And , only three lines after this , the theme of belief in the power of evil is shown by Macbeth when he says that the witches gave him the Thanehood when it was actually the king . |
| 12 | ‘ Poor Mangan , ’ Father Poole would sigh , ‘ the street-arabs gave him an awful time — and I was one of them , God forgive me . ’ |
| 13 | The hijackers gave themselves up after receiving assurances that they could seek asylum elsewhere . |
| 14 | The participants gave their informed consent before participation . |
| 15 | Results indicated that the ‘ houseplant group ’ lived significantly longer than a matched control group , perhaps simply because the plants gave them some extra purpose in life . |
| 16 | The rebels gave themselves up to loyal officers later that day . |
| 17 | He wanted more time and the rebels gave him it . |
| 18 | Polly Peck got credit unsecured but the banks gave it without a term , that was Nadir 's ( above ) biggest Mistake ’ . |
| 19 | The comments and questions with which Ace and Daak interrupted the Professor 's story did n't annoy Defries : she found that the breaks gave her the time she needed to stretch her credulity . |
| 20 | I 've heard them say if the owners gave them their fare home from Lowestoft to Darsham , that 's all they had . |
| 21 | One day at rehearsal , to cheer up Dame Edith , the producers gave her £1,000 to go to Hardy Amies so that he could design a new wardrobe for her . |
| 22 | It was published in 1959 and the trustees gave their consent . |
| 23 | Re-stowing the rest of the sails gave him time to get the details straight in his head . |
| 24 | When the forwards gave them the ball in the opening four tour wins they proved that with 13 tries . |
| 25 | The rabbits gave them a wide berth and came through by another gap farther up , close to the gnarled trunk of an old crabapple tree . |
| 26 | He spent his nights with Taheb , but these days he had begun to notice the glances the servants gave him , and made excuses when she wanted him to join her dinner guests . |
| 27 | The teachers gave me a rough time for a couple of years because my student and acting image did n't fit . |
| 28 | It was doubtful whether his preaching saved many souls , but enough of the navvies gave him a polite hearing to satisfy his missionary urges . |
| 29 | Our morning walk along the cliffs gave us terrific views of the secluded white sand bays dotted along the coastline followed by a few hours on Pompièrre beach where the locals meet to picnic . |
| 30 | City start Manchester derby week with Reid threatening to make life lively on the training ground because of this failure — but the fact is , the players gave everything they had . |