Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | John carved his puppets himself from wood , sewed the dresses for them , wrote verses to accompany the shows and ( with his aunt Kay as assistant ) manipulated the strings to give performances for his friends and relations . |
| 2 | However , on their first night she felt like a patient strapped to an operating table without the benefit of an anaesthetic ; and the surgeon was not only blind but expected the patient to give him directions . |
| 3 | In a modest attempt to amend the damage accumulated over centuries by this pernicious little fiction , I asked the children to give me the Other Version , particularly Eve 's , but Adam 's or God 's as well if they preferred . |
| 4 | Recently , the Parking Section identified a particular problem in Thistle Street and asked the Police to give the area as much attention as possible . |
| 5 | When they had passed under the Ponte di Rialto , with a disappointing view of the backs of its double row of shops , she checked the directions given to her by the hotel clerk , and , along with a jostling crowd of people , some tourists , some locals , disembarked at Sant'Angelo . |
| 6 | He requested the judge to give Adams credit for having pleaded guilty , together with the fact that he had lost his job and because his marriage had broken up . |
| 7 | Candidates may use calculators provided the calculators give no printout , have no word display facilities , are silent and cordless . |
| 8 | On the evening that his election to the Royal Society was announced , he entered the theatre to give his lecture to be greeted by a standing ovation . |
| 9 | Here 's how the paper described the welcome given to Austin Currie who attended the conference as a fraternal delegate from Fine Gael : |
| 10 | Several trials reported the reason given by patients for dropping out from treatment . |
| 11 | Sally-Anne approached the cubbyhole giving admission to the building with some trepidation , rightly so when the commissionaire had sniffed at her , and demanded to know why she sought admission — her clothing and general appearance were not those worn by other visitors to the editor . |
| 12 | Tuesday 15 April 1746 was Cumberland 's twenty-fifth birthday and he used the occasion to give his troops a rest . |
| 13 | As part of the process of opening up to the West , Kim used the occasion to give an interview to the Washington Times in which he called for improved relations with the USA and said that he wished to see a US embassy established in the capital , Pyongyang , " as quickly as possible " . |
| 14 | She used the training given by her mother 's Suzy Lamplugh Trust — which gives women advice about safety — to reason with her attacker and offer him her car . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Goebbels visited the city to give the campaign a boost , and toured around in a series of noisy , impressive and carefully stage-managed motorcades complete with motorcycle outriders . |
| 17 | His duties with the Friends ' Ambulance Unit in the Western Desert reinforced a desire to give service . |
| 18 | After all , if you 're a superstar , it 's no good admitting that you found a route given three grades easier than your latest creation anything but a path ! |
| 19 | Moreover , since , under section 6(4) all those who had applied for admission to the school had expressed a statutory preference for that school , the rejection of any one of those applicants involved a failure to give effect to the preference of one or more parents . |
| 20 | Mannheim compared the meanings given to social being to the givenness of language and it is difficult to imagine the individual ‘ affiliating ’ to their first language , exactly because of its givenness to the individual as part of social being . |
| 21 | This was a two-seat reconnaissance fighter which adopted the name given to an earlier Fairey fighter , the single-seat Firefly biplane of the mid-1920s . |
| 22 | The leader of the UNC , Basdeo Panday , who condemned the support given by the PNM for the government 's extension of the state of emergency was on Sept. 10 confirmed by President Noor Hassanali as the official Leader of the Opposition , a post he had held between 1976 and 1986 , as leader of the United Labour Front ( ULF ) , the then leading opposition party . |
| 23 | Richardson said : ‘ Stuart has demanded a steely band of professionalism from the squad and told the players to give everything . |
| 24 | Fujimori also attracted the votes given to the ruling APRA and other left-wing parties in the first round . |
| 25 | The supreme quality of marine pearls which caused the Romans to give them priority among all other materials for jewellery is their lustre or ‘ orient ’ , counterpart of the ‘ fire ’ of diamonds . |
| 26 | threatened and awed the jurors to give a verdict for the King , and by unlawful means did surprize the county , that they might not make defence , and did use several menacing wicked speeches and actions to the jury and others , for obtaining his unjust purpose aforesaid . |
| 27 | They surveyed the menu given to them by madam , and with a loud guffaw chose the room of golden showers . |
| 28 | A staunch Tory , Shrewsbury was distressed to find himself at odds with some of his fellow Catholics over Ireland and deplored the support given to Daniel O'Connell [ q.v. ] |
| 29 | This lunchtime , the South African Embassy in London 's Trafalgar Square hosted a reception to give the Worcester party a suitable send off . |
| 30 | Token economy was used whenever Chris obeyed an instruction given in a situation ( such as playing by himself ) where he was inclined to have a tantrum rather than comply . |