Example sentences of "[conj] gave [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the big news of the day that gave everyone sleepless nights was the Cuba Missile Crisis . |
| 2 | The gentle , careful , intelligent eyes that gave nothing away while leaving you with the impression that you and what you were saying were the most intelligent things she had ever beheld and heard . |
| 3 | Loathing for the other woman rose in Shae 's chest like an icy-cold wave , but she resolutely contained the feeling , staring back at her with a bland expression that gave nothing of her inner turmoil away . |
| 4 | But , as she looked up into his dark eyes that gave nothing away , and battled furiously against the pride that would have held her back from pressing her question , suddenly the sun came out . |
| 5 | There was loads of levers and , and er er crossheads and , and different things that gave plenty of work to our colleagues er including the housing you know , which was a huge er er piece of er welded equipment you know , built into the side of the ship . |
| 6 | Beccaria uses just such an argument against capital punishment ( in addition to his rational , effectiveness arguments ) ; we simply would not enter into a social contract that gave someone the right to kill us . |
| 7 | Hereford battled on … they were down but not out … and gave everything they 'd got … skipper Derek Hall struck them a goal midway through the second half … |
| 8 | The Prime Minister bristled and gave nothing . |
| 9 | They inhabited their silence and gave nothing away . |
| 10 | So it was that , at a highly important summit in the Hague in December 1969 , several major decisions were taken which breathed new life into the Community and gave something to both France and her partners . |
| 11 | Accompanied by Manuel Garcia Morante , she sang superbly for over an hour , and gave everyone the greatest joy . |
| 12 | We took them down to Max 's Kansas City and gave one to Micky Ruskin the owner , we gave one to the DJ ; and we gave one to Lisa Robinson , the reporter . |
| 13 | She lifted a large saucepan of eggs from on top of the hot range and gave one to each person . |
| 14 | He peered up into the mass of wires again , and gave one a poke . |
| 15 | Northampton asked for no quarter and gave none . |
| 16 | The discussion of this chapter so far might perhaps be summed up by noting that Lakatos aimed to give a rationalist account of science but failed , whilst Kuhn denied that he aimed to give a relativist account of science but gave one nevertheless . |
| 17 | As in the past , James 's smile promised everything but gave nothing away . |
| 18 | He flicked up his eyes , small and blank , holes that sucked in everything around him , but gave nothing back . |