Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Here 's how the paper described the welcome given to Austin Currie who attended the conference as a fraternal delegate from Fine Gael : |
| 3 | Several trials reported the reason given by patients for dropping out from treatment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Fujimori also attracted the votes given to the ruling APRA and other left-wing parties in the first round . |
| 9 | They surveyed the menu given to them by madam , and with a loud guffaw chose the room of golden showers . |
| 10 | 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. ] |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | John Redding , 21 , picked up a trophy donated by former Teesside County Borough engineer Jim Radcliffe , while 18-year-old John McGuckin received an award given by Garth Drabble , retired county surveyor and engineer . |
| 13 | The former Conservative Cabinet minister , John Biffen , welcomed the priority given to the industrial sector but voiced the concerns of a number of Tory MPs over the size of the public sector borrowing requirement , which is expected to rise to £50 billion in 1993/4 . |
| 14 | Our investigations of casual working in the catering industry confirmed the impressions given by the data from the LFS that most casual workers did not want to work on a regular , continuous basis . |
| 15 | He acknowledged the encouragement given by Peter Cassells and Kevin Duffy of Congress . |
| 16 | The 12th NST round opened on Sept. 28 , 1989 , and ended on Dec. 8 , when Burt and Yuri Nazarkin ( who replaced Alexei Obukhov as the Soviet delegation leader in November 1988 ) held an unprecedented joint press conference at which they reaffirmed the undertaking given at the Malta summit meeting on Dec. 2-3 between President Bush of the USA and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union ( see p. 37111 ) that they would aim to conclude a START treaty by the time of the scheduled Washington summit of June 1990 . |
| 17 | We got a donation given to us . |
| 18 | The Fenari clan seem 's not to have forgiven or forgotten this slight , for Molla Fenari 's sons later challenged a decision given by Molla Yegan as kadi of Bursa and caused him to be examined by a of the ulema . |
| 19 | The institute also enjoyed a talk given by a member of the Durham Wildlife Trust . |
| 20 | The move followed an assurance given by Yeltsin during a visit to the USA in June [ see pp. 38985-86 ] . |
| 21 | Leo Abse commented on the effects this legislation had on kinship ties when he recorded the support given by people in South Wales to his efforts to reform the divorce law during the 1960s : ‘ Welshmen who had endured the depression had no time for the unctuous pleas for the need at all costs to maintain the unity of family life ’ . |
| 22 | It was a great experience to visit the Medau School in Coburg , where we watched a class given by Bedu . |
| 23 | He questioned the evidence given by Professor Austin Gresham , a Home Office pathologist and Professor of Morbid Anatomy at Cambridge University , who conducted a second post-mortem examination on Miss Ward 's remains after they had been flown to Britain by her father , John Ward . |
| 24 | Out of 467 lots offered , few reached the estimates given in the catalogue . |
| 25 | I mean that I attended the lectures given at Cambridge by Dirac . |
| 26 | Fortunately , however , a few weeks before I found it I attended a lecture given by a Dr Peter Herring , of an oceanographic research institute based in Godalming , on the subject of marine bioluminescence . |
| 27 | Subsequently Her Royal Highness , Patron , Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts , attended a concert given by the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the Brangwyn Hall , Swansea . |
| 28 | The Princess Royal , President , Riding for the Disabled Association , later attended a show given by the Dunoon and Cowal Branch of the Association at Dunnon . |
| 29 | What words of greeting did the angel give to Mary when he visited her in Nazareth ? |
| 30 | How many bags of gold did the master give to each of his three servants ? |