Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [noun] gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dare n't wear that nice fur coat that cousin Freda gave me in case I get bombed by the Animal Liberation Front . |
| 2 | The ‘ Cornish Times ’ reported that ‘ the twin towns of East and West Looe gave themselves up to celebrating the auspicious event with popular rejoicing . |
| 3 | There was no Honey Bee or Gas Guzzler to replicate the sea route for me , so buses and hitches and foot slog gave me more time on Mull than was strictly accurate . |
| 4 | At that conference John the director general of the Health and Safety Executive gave his views on why certain regulations appear to be weaker than the actual European directives on which they were based . |
| 5 | Five and even ten years ago academic librarians were generally aware of the demands and problems of user education in their sector , and the research and development projects gave them little reason to change the fundamentals of their approach . |
| 6 | Evening and weekend papers gave lots of space to programme schedules . |
| 7 | Fully 77 per cent of our panel throughout the campaign rated these issues as ‘ extremely important ’ for their voting choice , but television news gave them less coverage than defence , though more than unemployment and inflation . |
| 8 | His thoughts were brought back to the present when Nanny Fanny gave him a sandwich of buttered bread thickly spread with strawberry jam . |