Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will return and tell Prince Rainbow that the lung 's guard were foolish and gave me such treatment as one might expect from a crowd of flea-bitten louts . " |
| 2 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |
| 3 | The hull was presumably steel ; it was this that gave her a rust-streaked look under the dirty coating of ice and snow . |
| 4 | We knew he was hungry and gave him our leftovers . |
| 5 | Fortunately , from the point of view of the tsar , the Khan of Bukhara was pro-Russian and gave him the chance to threaten Khiva from the rear . |