Example sentences of "[conj] he gave " in BNC.

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1 But he could and did hold a fringe meeting with the Bow Group , where he gave the becoming speech of a statesman .
2 Then , leaving his sobbing family at home , he dashed to a soccer match , where he gave away a penalty and cheated his team of a victory .
3 Those that he produced for sale through the Redfern Gallery were usually printed in editions of fifty and include Thames-side , Bull Fight , Spain , Tropical Landscape , Horse Guards in their Dressing Rooms at Whitehall and Working Men 's College , this last relating to his association with the Working Men 's College in Crowndale Road , Mornington Crescent , where he gave a lecture , ‘ The Painter 's Intention ’ , in 1952 , taught lithography and also acted as Art Adviser .
4 By 1578 he was town clerk of Colchester , a puritan borough , where he gave the address welcoming the queen in 1579 .
5 Or he gave them the impression that he wrestled , with limbs contorted , in the effort to seize hold of what truth could be found .
6 Does the Secretary of State recall that although he gave an account of meetings with the Japanese , the question asked specifically what representations he had received from business men ?
7 Walsh announced his decision to retire from the government on April 2 ; although he gave no reasons , he had earlier suggested that the government lacked sufficient political will to confront the country 's grave economic problems .
8 Once in front Dunlop never really looked like being beaten , although he gave his supporters plenty to worry about in the middle of the 30-lap race .
9 Once in front Dunlop never really looked like being beaten , although he gave his supporters plenty to worry about in the middle of the 30-lap race .
10 The other members began to find that he gave the faculty coherence and a sense of purpose .
11 He thought the lectures far too many and that he gave too many lectures for his own good .
12 Legend has it that the mandarin was so grateful to Earl Grey for services rendered that he gave him his secret tea recipe , to keep mind , body and spirit together in perfect harmony .
13 ‘ God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life ’ ( John 3.16 ) .
14 ‘ God so loved the world that he gave
15 It is in holy love that we glimpse the meaning of the cross because ‘ God so loved the world that he gave his only Son ’ ( John 3.16 ) .
16 The terrorist might say that he gave sufficient warning of the bomb for the area to be cleared , and that it was unforeseeable that a deaf person should remain on the premises and be killed in the explosion , which was intended only to cause damage .
17 He puts himself in good light by adding that he gripped me tightly round the shoulders in reassurance , that he gave me brandy , that we talked long after the starlings had ceased their chatter , that we walked down into the street and discussed in jogging stride what guilt or shame or desire could do to the human soul .
18 He was ‘ permitted to put in a long day 's work for his Master , and it can be truly said that he gave his best ’ .
19 Only the historic fact that he gave the Irish capital the first public performance of what would become the most popular of all oratorios .
20 Anyway , there is no hint that he gave her any encouragement at all .
21 He considered that he gave Modigliani a fair deal : ‘ He came to my shop about ten o'clock in the morning .
22 A tangerine that Modigliani gave me — we were in front of a fruit-shop — and another that he gave to his wife : that is my last memory of them . ’
23 Encouraged by the views of our solicitor , David Cooper of Gouldens , Robert Carnwath , QC appeared on SAVE 's behalf seeking to quash Ridley 's decision on the grounds that he gave insufficient and unclear reasons for granting consent .
24 Alternatively , the doctor may argue that he gave the pills to ease pain or for sleeping , and invite the court to believe him .
25 Coleridge 's improbably romantic explanation and evident intelligence so impressed the man that he gave the remarkable child a subscription to the circulating library in Cheapside , where he began , according to his own not unlikely account , to read every book it contained .
26 It has been said that he gave too much of himself in his idealistic way , and that the ‘ political football ’ aspects of the CBC in eastern Canada , where he was finally transferred , caused a breakdown in health and his early retirement .
27 In his memoirs , ‘ My Web of Time ’ , the Reverend R H Gallagher notes that he gave up his car in 1939 on the outbreak of war and never had another afterwards .
28 It was as an administrator that he gave immense service .
29 John wrote these words : ‘ God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son , so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life . ’
30 He did NOT write these words : ‘ God loved the brainy people and attractive people in the world so much that he gave his only Son , so that anyone with 8 GCSEs , 3 A-Levels and loads of friends may not die but have eternal life ’ ! !
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