Example sentences of "gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked and walked , up Shaftesbury Avenue , Holborn Viaduct , she gave nothing to buskers , veterans of the Great War , gassed blind , missing limbs , clinking cups , Cheapside , Threadneedle , Bishopsgate to Spitalfields . |
| 2 | Tyson , two of whose penalty decisions contributed to the recent battle of Highbury between Arsenal and Norwich , this time gave nothing , but by half-time he had cautioned Sheedy and Pearce for fouls . |
| 3 | Jane gave nothing away . |
| 4 | I was once or twice approached by stony-faced nuns begging for charities , but I gave nothing because I felt sure that some of those nuns were fakes , possibly men in drag , for their big , dark , hollow eyes , dyspeptic noses bright red in chalk-white faces , compressed , colourless lips and faint moustaches were hardly the signs of religious penance , and they were all wearing rather large boots . |
| 5 | Within the agency , too , Casey gave nothing away . |
| 6 | The man 's face gave nothing away . |
| 7 | Bill 's voice gave nothing away but Kelly noticed that he avoided looking at her as he gave them their orders . |
| 8 | As in the past , James 's smile promised everything but gave nothing away . |
| 9 | About 9% of the economics professors gave nothing ; the proportion of professors in other disciplines giving nothing ranged between 1.1% and 4.2% ( despite generally lower incomes than the economists ) . |
| 10 | If she does have a lot to tell , she gave nothing away during the course of the murder and subsequent fraud trials . |
| 11 | The Prime Minister bristled and gave nothing . |
| 12 | They inhabited their silence and gave nothing away . |
| 13 | She studied his face a moment longer but it gave nothing away . |
| 14 | Alina looked at him , but his face gave nothing away . |
| 15 | Our eyes met , but hers gave nothing away . |
| 16 | He flicked up his eyes , small and blank , holes that sucked in everything around him , but gave nothing back . |
| 17 | But Blanche gave nothing away . |
| 18 | It had only a very small , hardly noticeable brass plate outside which gave nothing away . |
| 19 | He gave nothing . |
| 20 | The solicitor 's face gave nothing away . |
| 21 | Iris 's expression gave nothing away and Melissa could only guess how she was feeling . |
| 22 | Though his expression gave nothing away a muscle flickered at the point of his jaw . |
| 23 | The gentle , careful , intelligent eyes that gave nothing away while leaving you with the impression that you and what you were saying were the most intelligent things she had ever beheld and heard . |
| 24 | In spite of an onslaught by Inspector Paul Lane , she gave nothing away . |
| 25 | But his face , in icy profile , gave nothing away . |
| 26 | That inscrutable face gave nothing away . |
| 27 | The bland tone gave nothing away . |
| 28 | She glanced surreptitiously downward , wondering if he 'd felt it too , but his expression gave nothing away . |
| 29 | Loathing for the other woman rose in Shae 's chest like an icy-cold wave , but she resolutely contained the feeling , staring back at her with a bland expression that gave nothing of her inner turmoil away . |
| 30 | One day in September , Flora 's doctor received a call from someone who claimed to be from the Family Health Services Authority , asking for details from his files , suspicious , he gave nothing away . |