Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We arrived at a Roman Catholic church where kind ladies gave us food and blankets , and soon we were all cosily asleep on the hard church floor . |
| 2 | You do n't seem to realise the difficulties that confronted us when facing the problems that this site gave us . ’ |
| 3 | In that too , they were alike : both of them had thoughts and feelings that few people gave them credit for or even suspected . |
| 4 | My sister and me are very close , so this woman gave me a giro to go to my sister 's — they took me to the station and put me on the train . |
| 5 | More than 700 farmers gave their backing to the Carlisle mart firm Harrison & Hetherington which had called the meeting because it believes the new system could paralyse cattle marketing . |
| 6 | However , other chip makers , in producing work-alike processors , decided that more speed gave them a selling point over Intels , and thus 20 and 25MHz 286 chips became common , as did 25 , 33 , and 40MHz 386 units . |
| 7 | As Geoffrey Gorer has remarked , their books for a lay public implied that psychoanalytic theory gave them an insight into matters of general concern of a depth and quality simply not available to the uninitiated , to people without qualifications . |
| 8 | This was especially so at Birmingham , where at 6.00 a.m. on Friday an ‘ End of Stage 2 ’ banner was erected and more than twenty insomniacs gave us a great breakfast and a marvellous reception that we will not forget , thanks to everyone who turned up , you certainly made us feel very welcome . |
| 9 | We knew he 'd taken a survival kit and space blanket on his trip , and that knowledge gave us hope . |
| 10 | But once it was asked , his whole character and political stance gave him little alternative but to say ‘ yes ’ . |
| 11 | Pushing my bike up those long hills and dry valleys gave me an intimate understanding of the nature of the chalk landscape . |
| 12 | Banks and securities firms lag behind their rivals elsewhere in innovation , and have lost what competitive edge Japan 's relatively low interest rates and strong currency gave them abroad a few years ago . |
| 13 | He has been accused of being an agent of the CIA , and Ethiopian security gave him 48 hours to leave the country in August 1978 , but no one has found any evidence to confirm these rumours , ‘ I think it 's very unlikely that Ethiopian security would expel somebody on the basis of baseless rumours , ’ White says . |
| 14 | Mrs Van Smirren , the County Commissioner for Lincolnshire South , also came and Brown Owl gave her a phonetic alphabet worksheet . |
| 15 | At the same time Diana 's healthy lifestyle of regular exercise , little alcohol and early nights gave her the energy to carry on with her royal duties . |
| 16 | An apricot cave of pastel carpet and toning walls , soft lights , Mozart and easy chairs gave it a ‘ late evening lounge ’ feel , at odds with a white-capped staff bristling with efficiency behind the computerised reception . |
| 17 | And personal poetry gave him the icks He could n't |
| 18 | It protected their backs , and protruding flanges gave them some cover on both sides . |
| 19 | That new and unfair pain gave her a new savage thirst for proper revenge . |
| 20 | In each of the participating hospitals , Ethical Committee permission was obtained for the study and all patients gave their informed consent . |
| 21 | He wore no tie , but the effect of his neat sleeked-back hair and thick-framed spectacles gave him the look of a rather stern and learned professor . |
| 22 | Inside the kitchen it was warm , and smiling Scandinavians gave him hot blankets and drinks to revive him . |
| 23 | In April Thai and Indonesian leaders gave their formal blessing to the idea of the triangle . |
| 24 | It took 54.03 per cent of the vote , which under a mixed system of direct elections and proportional representation gave it 114 of the 181 seats decided ; the Georgian CP took 24.42 per cent and 60 seats . |
| 25 | Cos one Tricia gave me an extra , extra er payment . |
| 26 | their high tea , were n't bothered about high tea , but still , er then , they 'd have , they might have a supper because she ai n't been a work , their elderly , they perhaps have a good tea , the they , they went to bed at nine and they said if I was reading something , they said , you know turn the gas out when you come up and , there you are well you can see , if one landlady gave me egg for me lunch that I had n't had , they not , they were n't gon na feed you up at supper time were they ? |
| 27 | The sharp nose and thin lips gave his angular face a harshness which was softened by the neatly trimmed black moustache he had worn since his early twenties . |
| 28 | Between 1341 and 1343 Dušan gave his support to a claimant to the Byzantine throne , John Cantacuzenus , whose daughter married the Ottoman ruler Orhan . |
| 29 | So people gave us money for the stamps that we put on and other people gave us donations . |
| 30 | His strong dialect and ungrammatical turns of phrase often made him unintentionally amusing , but his dark and ruddy complexion , coarse features , and shabby clothes gave him a hold over the type of working man the total abstainers sought to reach . |