Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] gave [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has he forgotten , in just an hour and a half , the pleasure that he gave to his own backwoodsmen by telling stories about multiple applications ? |
| 2 | I remembered that German lad at er sat at side and I gave of one my gun buttons and he gave me this postcard . |
| 3 | If the dieter feels she needs extra guidance or added structure to meal planning , she can always refer back to the suggested meals for good nutrition that we gave at the end of Chapter 4 . |
| 4 | Instead their lasting legacy and major influence was the legitimacy that they gave for local politics to be reduced to urban politics , which in turn consisted solely of issues concerning collective consumption . |
| 5 | I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his welcome for President Yeltsin 's visit , and for the broad welcome that he gave to the outcome of last week 's United Nations meeting . |
| 6 | In a lecture that I gave in Rome I tried to show that in spite of what Thomas Kuhn says ( which has been much exaggerated by his followers ) , you can not write the history of any branch of knowledge , whatever it may be , from a completely relativist point of view . |
| 7 | If he had done a little more research and had seen the evidence that I gave to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee in 1987 , he would have seen then — when we had a fiscal surplus of many billions — that I indicated that it would be right , in a downturn , to borrow money in a recession . |
| 8 | The prosecution finally dropped its charges when Robert McFarlane , National Security Adviser in 1983-85 and thus North 's superior , who was brought before Gesell on Sept. 11 as a test case to decide whether proceedings should continue , declared that North 's congressional testimony had a " very powerful impact " on him and " coloured " evidence that he gave at the original trial . |
| 9 | We are following the commitment that we gave in 1973 to ever closer union , so why are we now beginning to get cold feet ? |
| 10 | Great praise has been given to Mr. Baker , the United States Secretary of State , for arranging that conference and so fulfilling the commitment that he gave at the time of the Gulf war , when he said that he and President Bush would do all that they could to bring the parties to the negotiating table . |
| 11 | The answer on this subject that I gave in November made it perfectly clear that the decision is mine and nobody else 's . |
| 12 | The issue centres upon the response to an order made by Mr. Justice Garland in the early hours of 2 May and the consideration that I gave to that order at a meeting at 4 pm on the same day . |
| 13 | In one way or another a great many people owed much to this benevolent physician and he gave to Philip Miller an opportunity which would ultimately benefit botany and horticulture throughout the world . |
| 14 | Er my Lord , the added bit of information that was , that erm was then passed to me was that when the man rang the police station the information that he gave to the telephonist included the fact that the occupants of the flat were frightened . |
| 15 | I refer my hon. Friend to the answer that I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Gravesham ( Mr. Arnold ) some moments ago . |
| 16 | Again , I respect my hon. Friend 's strongly held personal views , but Parliament has expressed its views and I can not add anything to the answer that I gave to the two previous questions . |
| 17 | I refer to the answer that I gave to the hon. Member for Hemsworth ( Mr. Enright ) some moments ago . |
| 18 | If I may hark back to the answer that I gave to the right hon. Member for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) , one of the areas on which there has been a significant concentration by the Government and the security forces in recent years is the financial resources available to terrorists — I hasten to say on both sides of the community . |
| 19 | Does my right hon. Friend recall the answer that he gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Saffron Walden ( Mr. Haselhurst ) on Tuesday about monetary union ? |
| 20 | Is he able to elaborate on the answer that he gave to the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East ? |
| 21 | As the Prime Minister savours one of his last few busy days before the deluge , will he think back to the dinner that he gave at No. 10 Downing street last November on behalf of the Tory party for what The Sun — I must quote it accurately because it is from The Sun — |
| 22 | If he had given the speech that he gave at Bayeux in June 1946 a year earlier , he could have turned the October 1945 referendum and elections into a referendum on his own views . |
| 23 | I re-read the speech that I gave in this full council chamber on November the twentieth nineteen ninety one nothing has changed except possibly it has got worse . |
| 24 | I repeat the undertaking that I gave to the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East ( Mr. Campbell ) a moment ago . |
| 25 | That is the undertaking that I gave to the Select Committee . |
| 26 | However , Proust 's real originality , on this point , springs from the fact that he gave to the phenomenon of involuntary memory an aesthetic application . |
| 27 | I was quite surprised that there was some sort of strength of feeling , that the balance between providing security , and the impression that we gave to visitors , although it was acknowledged we did n't have a lot of visitors coming in , there was a feeling |