Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] gave [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that he 'd telephoned every gallery I gave him the name of . |
| 2 | You 're being asked erm you told us you rang up the Assistant Chief Constable who gave you the authority to carry out the armed operation . |
| 3 | ‘ The girl who gave you the message from Richter . |
| 4 | The solicitors who gave him the court order for them to release all the details on that . |
| 5 | John was a catalyst who gave them the exposure . |
| 6 | Hailed as the troubled comic genius who gave us the manic hotel-keeper Basil Fawlty and the Ministry of Silly Walks , he 's also the kingpin of the enduring Pythons and a multi-millionaire businessman . |
| 7 | FURIOUS Nigel Mansell ended his Formula One career yesterday with a blast at the team which gave him the World Drivers ' Championship . |
| 8 | He heard the calm voice , but could feel the trembling body which gave it the lie . |
| 9 | But it was the patronage of Sir John Coke [ q.v. ] , one of the principal secretaries of state from 1625 to 1639 , which lay behind his rise to complete control of foreign and domestic posts in the 1630s ; and it was that achievement which gave him the opportunity both to create a new postal service and to acquire an estate in Essex worth £800 a year . |
| 10 | But then there was that day she gave me the brooch what she said I was n't never to forget . |
| 11 | Indeed , it was the Moors who gave him the title by which he is best known , a contraction of the Arabic sid-y , meaning ‘ my lord ’ . |
| 12 | THE grandfather of Cadbury Flake girl Rachel Brown last night hit out at the ‘ evil ’ person who gave her the designer drug Ecstasy . |
| 13 | He had been given curious looks by the person who gave him the directions which show that he was a stranger as he was not recognised . |
| 14 | In response to this request he gave them the Lord 's Prayer , in which we pray first of all for God Himself , that all may know him and revere Him , that his mile may be extended over all , and that his will , so right and good and loving , may be done on earth , as it is by angels , prophets and saints in heaven . |
| 15 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 16 | Beside giving them access to a number of secret SimFic files — files which gave them the location of several special projects Berdichev had instigated — they had also contained several items of particular interest . |
| 17 | Her Black Sea fleet had by this time been destroyed , the allies had landed not only in the Crimea but also at Nikolaev to the west and Novorossiisk to the east , and the Turks retained a position at Sukhumi which gave them the chance of counter-attacking in the direction of Tiflis . |
| 18 | The Royal Africa Company had to provide slaves for English colonists as a condition of keeping the charter which gave it the monopoly of the trade , and the colonists added to the injury of leaving their debts unpaid the insult of complaining that too few slaves were being delivered . |
| 19 | She may be 82 , but the woman who gave us the breathalyser is still going strong . |
| 20 | FERGIE is throwing a Christmas party for the people who gave her the courage to get over her fall from grace in the Royal Family . |
| 21 | See the towels she gave me the last time . |
| 22 | Evelyn took up the pen and wrote her name quickly , then looked up at Miss Harker who gave her the briefest of nods and immediately turned her attention back to the rest of the company . |
| 23 | gets past but he ca n't get past and Shrewsbury are breaking with it but they 're still inside their own half at the moment with Kevin who gave them the fighting chance with the original equalizer inside the first half . |
| 24 | It was Virginia who gave me the clue . |
| 25 | Fabbio did his homework among the downsizing-bent corporates which gave him the idea for Dazel : exploit the need for managing information in the network environment and give them instantaneous links to fax , printers , voice and E-mail . |
| 26 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 27 | The man who gave us The Romans in Britain still knows how to make an audience feel uncomfortable . |
| 28 | The man who gave us the meson |
| 29 | Phrasal verbs come in for more attention with Phrasal Verbs Organiser from LTP ( by the man who gave us the First Certificate Organiser ) , while HarperCollins is publishing a Phrasal Verbs Workbook to accompany its dictionary . |
| 30 | It was the capitalist who gave us the steam engine . |