Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
| 2 | There is an afternoon visit to the temples and a drive to the buried Buddhist city of Sarnath where Buddha gave his first sermon . |
| 3 | The journey culminated in a Friday night debate where Patten gave a lecture on proper posture . |
| 4 | Boulton & Watt gave up the gas side of their business in 1814 , and the development of more efficient gas apparatus passed into other hands . |
| 5 | What is tolerably certain is that he was still alive when he either entered into confraternity with Christ Church or Cnut gave them his name , and that when Cnut himself sailed for Denmark in 1019 it was to suppress trouble . |
| 6 | The man with golden goal touch at the County Ground is still Craig Maskell … the two hundred and fifty thousand pounds that Swindon gave Reading for him is beginning to look chicken feed … 15 goals this season … the last two came last week against Southend … tomorrow he 's off to Ashton gate to shoot Bristol City down … |
| 7 | It was in this spirit that Bernard gave Jane , at eighteen , a professional 's Hasselblad camera and appointed her company photographer , the first of their children to work for the company . |
| 8 | No one denied that ICI gave them first-class products . |
| 9 | It was quite a performance that Twomey gave every evening . |
| 10 | The title ‘ administrative criminology ’ is of significance in that it is the title that Vold gave to the classical criminology of Beccaria and Bentham ( as we saw in Chapter 1 ) . |
| 11 | But the almost perverse acceptance of this backwardness began to wilt before the spirit of improvement which gripped much of English society after mid-century , although Sussex gave up its secrets only with a hard battle . |
| 12 | Oh , here we got the the lists that Connie gave me , |
| 13 | the lists that Connie gave me , |
| 14 | The injunction that Churchill gave Hugh Dalton , in asking him to oversee the Special Operations Executive , was ‘ to set Europe ablaze ’ . |
| 15 | A somewhat different tone began to emerge relatively quickly , particularly in an address that Gorbachev gave to British members of parliament later the same month . |
| 16 | Neither Bream nor O'Leary gave evidence . |
| 17 | It was at last year 's parade that Elham gave him the idea when she said : ‘ I wish I could enjoy what I am experiencing here , but back in my mind there are too many innocent children left with no hopes and no future . |
| 18 | Ewen obviously knew his way , but although Neil gave him room he made no further attempt to break free , or even to reach open water . |
| 19 | I 'd like to ask you to er , read it through , and the application form that Jeff gave you yesterday , yes ? |
| 20 | The opening in Paris at the Grand Palais is scheduled to take place on the centenary of the one-man show that Vollard gave Cezanne in September 1895 , the only major exhibition of his work during the artist 's lifetime . |
| 21 | ‘ I did not want things that Picasso gave Douglas and me coming on the market , and Billy very decently gave me the drawing ’ . |
| 22 | Zambia , more astute than Tammuz gave hir credit for , knelt against the side of his chair : ‘ You reckon the cocktail will give you gut-ache , its taste is questionable , yet it looks beautiful , glowing there in the glass , smells divine , and the buzz it can give you is a temptation beyond endurance . |
| 23 | His conversation had the inconsequence that Chekhov gave to his older characters and it was larded with Russian proverbs , many of which he was suspected of having invented himself . |
| 24 | ‘ Talking of addresses , you mentioned that Angy gave hers to Delia . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Can you remember when it was that Angy gave Delia her address ? ’ |
| 26 | In spite of what Eddie said , it 's possible that Angy gave it to Delia but if Eddie 's right , then it looks very much as if Delia — or someone else — took it . |
| 27 | I walk with a frame so Karen gave me a hand and took me round and introduced me to people . ’ |
| 28 | I am , however , inclined to believe that the authentic Hecataeus could not have stated , as Josephus makes him state , that Alexander gave the Samaritan territory free of tax to the Jews . |
| 29 | It was said that Gertrude gave him the final result . |
| 30 | Kim and Pak visited Moscow in March 1949 for discussions with Stalin and it was evidently on this occasion — if Nikita Khrushchev 's recollections are reliable — that Stalin gave somewhat grudging approval to a future North Korean attack , on the assumption that there would be a significant rebellion in the south . |