Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelly sat in the jockeys ' stand at Sandown and gave a quiet laugh . |
| 2 | Malcolm 's return brought him a straight push for three and a ninth Test hundred , but he immediately drove half-heartedly at Hemmings and gave Gooch a simple catch at mid-on . |
| 3 | He attended two performances of Figaro and gave a concert at the opera house , which included the première of a new symphony he had written specially ( K.504 , known afterwards as the ‘ Prague ’ ) . |
| 4 | My father paid for my digs in Paddington and gave me a pound a week pocket money , together with what he called ‘ travelling expenses ’ for my regular visit home ( home and a good , square meal ) , and to spend some time with Clare who was fifteen and slowly , very slowly , improving . |
| 5 | England were able to start with their captain Richard Leman and gave an outing to Don Williams . |
| 6 | It was held the following April against Arsenal and gave Croot £250 . |
| 7 | IF HE is really so crafty , how come he blundered into Kuwait and gave the Americans a reason to hammer him ? |
| 8 | I went to see Suor Eusebia and gave her a message to deliver to Eric when the attention of the carabinieri was else where . |
| 9 | It was the Royal College for the Blind at Hereford that gave him new inspiration by teaching him how to sculpt . |
| 10 | He looked back at Kim and gave him a small bow . |
| 11 | She did , however , slip next door to May and gave her a rough sketch of what had happened , right up to the Syrup of Figs . |
| 12 | Turning to face front , she suddenly saw Ellie and gave a little screech of alarm . |
| 13 | Mr Taylor travelled back to Aberdeen and gave them to Murray . |
| 14 | In only his third full senior game , he produced a creative , mature performance that was too much for Liverpool at Anfield — where Parlour made his League debut last January and gave away a penalty . |
| 15 | A couple of hours earlier , on a hunch , Hermann Goering rang down to his main office in Carinhall and gave them a Stockholm number to obtain . |
| 16 | He was buried the following day under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard , an Austrian Nazi who befriended him in Brazil and gave him his identity papers before returning to Vienna . |
| 17 | He shot a very cross look at Maggie but gave in almost at once . |
| 18 | They are the first known lords of the manor of Cosmeston and gave their name to the village , Costentinstune ( the place of the Costentins ) . |
| 19 | For safety , I dismantled the link to Kirov and gave the final go-ahead . |
| 20 | He kissed Amelia and gave her a Christmas card . |
| 21 | Five miles down the road two other officers , Pc Mark Whitehouse and WPc Susan Larkin spotted the Sierra and gave chase . |
| 22 | However , he and Earl Tostig Godwinsson [ q.v. ] were robbed by brigands on their way home , and forced to return to Rome , where Nicholas reinstated Ealdred and gave him the pallium , while insisting that he give up Worcester . |
| 23 | That very same evening he appeared on the bandstand in Woodford Square and gave his first speech under the auspices of the P.E.M. The speech turned out to be nothing less than a vitriolic attack on the Commission , which he portrayed as an organisation run by ‘ hide- bound conservatives in the British Colonial service ’ . |
| 24 | To choose one of many examples , I can point to the case of Nottingham-born Herol Graham , whose parents came from Jamaica and gave him no support in his sporting endeavours , at first in sprinting and then in boxing where he made his mark as a light-middleweight . |
| 25 | All had been recruited by Elaine and gave up one Sunday afternoon to complete the circular route around Kilmarnock for which they were sponsored . |
| 26 | Bob Eaton , the man who brought Lotus to GM and gave us the Calibra , is about to become chairman of Chrysler . |
| 27 | As reported exclusively in Angler 's Mail , Kent-based Ashford AS gave up 12 miles of the canal after 88 years tenancy because of a long-running row with the National Rivers Authority 's Southern region . |
| 28 | When he was out of danger and questioned about relatives , he told them , somewhat reluctantly , that he had a sister living in South Africa and gave them Pat 's married name and address . |
| 29 | The boss went to Calgary and gave me the day off . ’ |
| 30 | The Honorary Secretary read the Minutes of the previous BGM and gave a report of the Committee 's activities over the past two years . |