Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] and gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRESIDENT Yeltsin neutralised the Russian opposition yesterday and gave his government several months ' leeway to press ahead with radical economic reforms . |
| 2 | Then he found her mouth again and gave her another of those butterfly-light kisses . |
| 3 | County and district councillors came along and after searching questions , agreed with our plan wholeheartedly and gave us very good advice . |
| 4 | For example , a boy under 10 years , the age of criminal responsibility , took his friend 's bicycle home and gave it to his father . |
| 5 | Through the first course , clear soup so strong that it almost jellied in an empty soup plate , he talked to Aunt Tossie while she supped up her soup delightedly and gave him gardening secrets for his mother . |
| 6 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
| 7 | Mornings had indeed developed into quite a happy routine of little errands and duties for Aunt Emily , the hens and the sea ; and if she felt now , as quite often she did , an incomprehensible longing for something wilder and freer and more satisfying than this domestic round , she put it down to needing to be in the open air more and gave herself , next morning , a longer spell on the smooth buff sands of the bay . |
| 8 | Then the wind rose , fanning the few sparks left alive in the brushwood ; the fire flared into life again and gave them light to see by , and they broke apart from their terrible embraces and sprang off to blade-length and lance-length . |
| 9 | He ran down the corridor to fetch his own letter home and gave it to Murray , taking this small offer of service as a token that their friendship would continue . |