Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | We never sold anything of course but it gave me a sort of status plus it was a very interesting time to be around the art world . |
| 2 | That is what the greenbelt is actually there for , and if you have it there for that purpose , as I said yesterday , the necessary corollary is that you have additional provision beyond it , and I ca n't resist to offer Mr Wincup some support , I 'm sure one piece of evidence that he gave you about the letter from the Parish Council , he 's probably already replied to that Parish Council saying , as you 're in the York greenbelt have no fear , all the Selby needs will pass straight across your heads and land somewhere else . |
| 3 | He claimed the housing market was showing signs of revival but he gave it a prod anyway by raising the threshold on stamp duty from £30,000 to £60,000 , move that will help mainly first-time buyers . |
| 4 | ‘ I took a bowl of water and I gave it hirin , as if it was my father , or my brother , ’ said Kalchu . |
| 5 | When he says of Bilbo that he gave up the Ring ‘ of his own accord : an important point ’ , he may be saying only that Bilbo ca n't have become too badly addicted , or more moralistically that Bilbo 's good impulse will help his cure . |
| 6 | I just remember the all-pervading feeling of reassurance that they gave me throughout . |
| 7 | Lord Scarman was a judge in the Court of Appeal when he gave and published the Hamlyn lectures in 1974 , which were controversial , as was the Dimbleby lecture given by Lord Denning in 1980 . |
| 8 | Nothing was worth doing unless it gave pleasure , he had argued in Ink . |
| 9 | my holiday was later as usual and longer so , you know and there was a couple of other things not related to this which I 'd thought of doing and it 's sort of they evaporated , but erm , we did spend time talking to Ingy earlier in the year , you know , about publicity and I gave her lists of well such as things obvious things like Playback and Newsbeat |
| 10 | Roger Davis fell in love with photography when his gave him a box camera nearly 50 years ago . |
| 11 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 12 | His appearance in the Toyota World Match Play at Wentworth in October was his 17th in succession and it gave him the chance of winning the title for a record sixth time . |
| 13 | ‘ Bear in mind that I gave my evidence after Blissett had been charged by the FA for a serious breach of the laws of the game — and the experienced commission of inquiry , which conducted a rigorous investigation into the incident , cleared him . |
| 14 | There was an icy contempt in her voice , and his face darkened in anger before he gave a faint dismissive shrug of his broad shoulders . |
| 15 | A year ago , the Commons listened in silence as she gave a graphic eyewitness account of the suffering of Kurdish refugees on the Iran-Iraq border in the aftermath of the Gulf War . |
| 16 | A clinical smell like solvent that reminded her instantly of the time in hospital when she gave birth to Sousan . |
| 17 | It was not Diana 's day to lunch so they gave me her secluded table from which to view the proceedings . |
| 18 | He quickly brought himself back to earth before she gave him another dizzy spell . |
| 19 | We met them face to face and he gave his full backing . |
| 20 | I remembered that German lad at er sat at side and I gave of one my gun buttons and he gave me this postcard . |
| 21 | In view of his experience at Highgate School , he had always been interested in the life and tribulations of schools teachers ; and in any case he held strong views about education , about which he lacked an opportunity to state his ideas at length until he gave some lectures in Chicago in 1950 . |
| 22 | She had no need for speech for she gave birth to — she uttered — The Word … ’ and , standing before the icon , so perfect in its gilded stillness , I had thought of the bodies of men , land-locked and mute , and I had felt sorry for them . |