Example sentences of "[Wh pn] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it would have been too easy : they 'd made love the first night they met , both involved with women who gave them pain . |
| 2 | A professional cavalier , who enjoyed excelling at the game of soldiering , who gave his orders with the perfect authority of a corps whose drills have been tempered by a score of successful wars , a hundred victories , a million unsung deaths . |
| 3 | It was n't the nuns , Harriet , who gave me my guilt , my conscience ( do you have a conscience , Harriet ? ) . |
| 4 | The former was derived from traditional sources but stylised by Saint-Léon , who gave much thought to the theatrical presentation of such material . |
| 5 | By Monday , Ben was terribly ill and , once more , we took him to our vet , who gave him an antihistamine injection . |
| 6 | Speaking as the operation began , Mr Barnett thanked the person who gave permission for the donation : ‘ I know that Aisling , even if she does not survive , would want me to express my eternal gratitude to them for giving her the chance to live . ’ |
| 7 | He had been runner-up on several occasions during his 20 years with Smith , but it was Sheelagh Boon 's six-year-old Smart Move who gave him his first win when taking the Senior Newcomers Championship . |
| 8 | The person preparing to slam the door is Walter ( charming Gregory Floy ) , a landscape gardener who gave up his job to look after his GP wife Vivien ( Morag Hood ) and their ( inevitably ) stripped-floor , stripped-pine flat . |
| 9 | Many of the ordinary Panamanians who gave the general such a stinging defeat in May 's annulled elections were astonished that the US allowed the coup to collapse when it had 12,000 troops stationed around the canal . |
| 10 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 11 | Just inside the front porch , a handwritten book is prefaced with the words ‘ This book has been compiled that something , more than their mere names , may be known of the Lavenham men who gave their lives for their country in the Great War . ’ |
| 12 | It was Mayer who gave the experienced Michael York a torrid afternoon and created a string of opportunities with penetrating crosses . |
| 13 | Curiously , Abbado is succeeding the man who gave him his first big break . |
| 14 | And one of this year 's vice-presidents of the association is a farmer 's daughter who became a farmer 's wife who gave birth to three sons , and whose special interests include farming . |
| 15 | It finished ( as a bowler ) the former Derbyshire player , Fred Swarbrook , who gave up the unequal struggle when , peering frantically around to see where a delivery had gone , he found out only when the ball dropped out of the stratosphere and hit him on top of the head . |
| 16 | Eltis linked this with the basic errors he detected in Keynesian ideas , as propounded by such recent disciples as Harrod or Kaldor , who gave full employment and job creation the priority over price stability . |
| 17 | The Anniversary also served as a reminder of the sacrifices made during the wartime years by those who gave unstintingly to preserve the freedom we now enjoy . |
| 18 | Books of Remembrance record the names of over 125,000 and women who gave their lives in the Service , and Roll of Honour commemorates over 19,000 US airmen who died on active service while serving in the UK . |
| 19 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 20 | He went to see the Bishop of Durham , who gave him tea . |
| 21 | It passed ‘ into great peace with the help of Father Horner an old and saintly monk who gave me absolution and good counsel ’ . |
| 22 | It was another medievalist , under Tolkien 's influence , who gave utterance to the view that ‘ Literature stops in 1100 ; after that there 's only books , ’ but they were sentiments which in a crude way echoed Tolkien 's own position . |
| 23 | Who gave these patients permission to have alcohol ? |
| 24 | However , Sir Anthony stresses that , almost without exception , those who gave their evidence to the investigation did so with ‘ conscientiousness , care , dignity and with a measure of frankness wholly to be admired ’ . |
| 25 | Dr Kellett , who gave evidence of his post-mortem examination , said most of the injuries were consistent with blows from the flex , either looped or in a straight line . |
| 26 | AJOURNALIST was yesterday ordered by the High Court to identify a source who gave him commercially sensitive information . |
| 27 | After the initial shock and disbelief , the Tysons grew angry — at the advisers who convinced them about Barlow Clowes , at the Midland bank manager who gave verbal assurances of its security , at the regulatory authorities responsible for the investment community and at the Department of Trade and Industry which allowed the company to trade . |
| 28 | Valdano , who gave up playing after struggling to throw off a viral-hepatitis problem , has agreed to attempt the unlikely come-back . |
| 29 | Valdano , who gave up playing after struggling to throw off a viral-hepatitis problem , has agreed to attempt the unlikely come-back . |
| 30 | Even they could consider themselves lucky compared with the shackled Italians torpedoed on the Arandora Star on their way to Canada , or other internees beaten and robbed on their way to Australia by British officers and NCOs on the Dunera who gave a pretty good imitation of Hitler 's Stormtroopers . |