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

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1 And she loved his body , the astringent unsweaty cleverness of it , that gave with delight and asked for so little back .
2 He opened the door that gave into the extended cupboard under the roof .
3 Sorry , the only one I eh , I eh got this idea was when I first took this up I went into the hut in the town , and I picked up the booklets , you know that they have on the counter , and in one of these booklets it had that the vet 's were now I do n't know what I 'm , I 'm very lost for everything like this , but they 've kept and therefore if your animal needed , your pet needed treatment it would be done by the private vet 's and eh , mon the money would be re would be reclaimed by the vet from the R S P C A , and I think that gave to erm .
4 Was Sony that gave to the world transistor radios …
5 Aye everything was gi really fantastic the people that helped the people that gave to the strike , out of this world I know the help they had was really fantastic .
6 The ones that gave of carbon dioxide when we put an acid to them .
7 He led her in through yet another heavy door : they entered a wide , tiled hallway that gave onto wide , tiled rooms .
8 He drew himself upright and walked confidently through the bit of the lobby that gave onto the Cocktail Lounge , where ruddy-faced men stood panting and laughing , sleeves rolled up , ties loose , queuing for drinks or holding trays of them , laughing loudly in deep voices .
9 There was a further period of tussles for power until the ageing grandson of Bruce and son of Walter and Marjory at last reached the throne in his own right as Robert II , and gave to the royal house the name which would remain as Stewart until Mary , Queen of Scots , altered its spelling to Stuart .
10 The rest of the pistols he bundled into a towel and gave to one of his daughters to carry to the banqueting hall .
11 And then I realized that the little cup she 'd brought with her out of the sea , and gave to me for Adam — that little cup could be none other than Undry . ’
12 He fumbled in his jacket pocket , took out a notebook and wrote a few lines on a page which he tore out and gave to Rain .
13 Such competitions kept the country stations on their toes , provided the service with valuable publicity , and gave to the travelling public a pleasing and uplifting sight to welcome them to their rural destination , the ideal blending of technology and nature .
14 On the contrary , they began soon after birth and gave to mothers in particular and to child-rearing in general an importance and profundity that was fully reflected in the latent content of the myth and ritual of primitive agricultural peoples but was not in the least consciously understood until the coming of psychoanalysis in the twentieth century .
15 Norman Lamont declined the Prime Minister 's offer of a move to Environment Secretary and gave in his resignation .
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