Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shipping and construction group P & O gave a hundred thousand pounds to the Tory election fund . |
| 2 | However , in the case of transactions before the making of the bankruptcy order , if the transferee or recipient gave value , was in good faith and without notice that the petition had been presented , he will be protected ( s 284(4) ) . |
| 3 | Boulton & Watt gave up the gas side of their business in 1814 , and the development of more efficient gas apparatus passed into other hands . |
| 4 | He was the last of the non-juror bishops to die , and his acceptance that cession or death gave legitimacy to the new bishops enabled most of the non-jurors to return to communion with the Church , though the extreme minority continued in schism . |
| 5 | A local authority , once satisfied that an odour amounts to a statutory nuisance is under a duty to serve an abatement notice in accordance with s.93 of the Public Health Act 1936 on the person whose act , default or sufferance gave rise to the nuisance or caused it to continue , requiring that person , in a specified time , usually two to six months , to abate the nuisance and to execute such remedial works and take such steps as may be necessary for that purpose . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We recruited a team of twenty-five young executives whose firms or colleagues gave them three weeks paid leave for the election campaign . |
| 8 | Neither Bream nor O'Leary gave evidence . |
| 9 | Neither the General nor Bill gave me any hint of lolly . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ What comes up , ’ said Rory , and Jessica gave a dirty laugh . |
| 11 | In the 1970s optimism and faith gave way to disillusion and doubt as medical costs soared with little apparent benefit . |
| 12 | Sainsbury 's sponsored the grape-treading stage and Faith gave a bare-footed demonstration before the Prince . |
| 13 | In the end , Butterworth and Clibber gave their reluctant assent . |
| 14 | Katy and Jamie got ready very quickly and Mum gave each of them two wee spoons . |
| 15 | It found support in the professional and middle classes , and Treitschke gave it intellectual respectability . |
| 16 | Parisian cultural life between the wars was close-knit ; writers and artists gave each other mutual support . |
| 17 | Silhouetted by the blaze , the jeeps frantically reversed still firing , and Stirling gave the order to withdraw . |
| 18 | He flew slowly and high , watching the land unfold beneath him as buildings and roads gave way to brief outcrops of country followed by more towns . |
| 19 | Then Maeve hugged their surviving son , five-year-old John , and Garry gave him three loving kisses . |
| 20 | Nottm Forest 0 , Sheff W 2 FIRST-HALF goals by Williams and Hirst gave Sheffield Wednesday a notable victory over a Nottingham Forest side buckling under the strain of playing four matches in a week , writes Don Hardisty . |
| 21 | Anarchy was over and there now began the reign of one of the strongest kings ever to rule England , one whose territories and titles gave him authority over a great part of north-western Europe . |
| 22 | He opened the boomgate and Whitlock gave him a friendly wave as he drove past on his way to the visitors ' car park . |
| 23 | ‘ I came from a poor family in the countryside and communism gave me a chance for a better life . |
| 24 | A 1903 treaty between the US and Panama gave the US the right to build and open a waterway . |
| 25 | A friend said both Jamie and Gary gave statements to police . |
| 26 | Ana started to laugh and Mitch gave her a startled glance and then laughed ruefully too , giving her a hug . |
| 27 | When they submitted their paper and Fleischmann gave his first public presentation on 28 March it was this peak alone that was exhibited ; it is shown enlarged in Figure 7 with the number of counts in the vertical axis and the energy scale along the bottom . |
| 28 | The alienation of king and archbishop gave added significance to long-standing grievances at a time when by protecting Eardwulf 's enemies the archbishop was allying himself against the king . |
| 29 | Going in to yesterday 's third round , Ian Baker-Finch , Greg Norman and Elkington gave Australia four in the top 13 , only one of whom — Woosnam — was European and seven of whom were American . |
| 30 | The rescue helicopter still had n't arrived when we were fifteen miles from the coast and Warton gave me Blackpool 's frequency and wished me good day ’ . |