Example sentences of "[vb past] give [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I , well I got given orders . |
| 2 | During the war the Cubist concept of the work of art as an autonomous , constructed object became more and more widespread and was to have a profound effect on the emergence of Purism , one of the pictorial styles to which Cubism helped give birth . |
| 3 | If liberalism was a spent political force in Britain by 1930 , the kind of social survey to which it helped give rise was not . |
| 4 | They helped give Vauxhall its best share of the UK market in 1992 at 16.7 per cent . |
| 5 | AT&T Co says it is confident of winning at least $30m in orders for digital switching equipment from South Korea next month , after the government promised to give US firms a fair shot at its telecommunications market in the face of threats of retaliation by the US . |
| 6 | I was numb , but it was a numbness that promised to give way to an agonizing pain quite soon . |
| 7 | Mr Ashdown promised to give priority to ending the recession , with more investment in schools , hospitals , housing and transport . |
| 8 | What he himself claimed was that he wished to enfranchise the Tibbu : he proposed to give land to Tibbu from the expropriated endowments of the Sanusi order . |
| 9 | He proposed to give wives a separate insurance status and spoke of the recognition that was due to their ‘ vital work in ensuring the adequate continuance of the British race and British ideals in the world ’ . |
| 10 | The sun rose to give sparkle to a beautiful frosty morning as we puffed steadily into the country and soon we were rolling past the delightful wooded hills and lochs of the West Highlands . |
| 11 | He rose to give thanks for the thanks . |
| 12 | It helped to give Hartlepool the lead , with the move begun in their own area and completed by Paul Baker 's firm header on Paul Dalton 's cross . |
| 13 | English ports and the Bayonnais together provided ships in which Bordeaux 's wine was carried , and England 's reliance on Aquitaine for wine — for both liturgical and secular consumption — helped to give birth to an English mercantile marine . |
| 14 | If the political reality has always been one of conflict and disunity , the construction of an imaginary Orient helped to give unity and coherence to the idea of the West . |
| 15 | The latter is a good example of his more extended type of cantata with fewer but longer sections than Rossi 's : The opening of the duet will also illustrate one of Carissimi 's most striking characteristics , his genuine sense of key : The slow , uncertain supersession of mode by key had not yet generally revealed the possibilities of tonality for variety and dynamic structure ; composers still treated a key very much as a mode , a tonal area within which they could move and from which they wandered uncertainly , and which helped to give unity to a composition . |
| 16 | The buying of a teapot was part of the Burton ritual that helped to give variety to the East Anglian 's stay in the Midlands . |
| 17 | OLYMPIC ace David Grindley helped to give Shaun Edwards the perfect lift-off to his benefit season at Central Park last night . |
| 18 | The blue vein in Davide 's temple beside the scar where the bullet had entered throbbed and swelled to give warning when one of his bone crunchers was on its way ; lying quietly stretched out in the shuttered bedroom of their apartment , he was able to defend himself , as it readied to pounce , testing its grip on his nerves as a cat tests its claws on the obliging furniture ; he could slip under the velvet cloth of numb unconsciousness , without plunging his family into squalor and even starvation and illness as he had risked doing-as he had done — on Crosby Street near the Bend in Little Italy . |
| 19 | Charles offered himself as a donor and sat with his arm ready bared to give blood , but the unfortunate patient had died by the time the messenger returned . |
| 20 | Discover the wonderful Ionian Islands on one of our flotillas tailored to give confidence to the inexperienced and freedom to the expert . |
| 21 | His wallet was stolen and he was dragged to the ground and kicked about the head and body before a passing motorist stopped to give assistance . |
| 22 | He tried to give talks on how he had prepared the plan , captured the Bookman and what he hoped to learn from him , but nobody paid any attention . |
| 23 | Rachaela tried to give Ruth what she had had with Emma , things she liked or which would be good for her : sausages and chips , chicken and broccoli , real carrots , grilled fish with cheese and baked beans . |
| 24 | What he said was very significant — that the ANC wanted to encourage any film-maker , black or white , who tried to put on the screen images of black people that were recognisably human , and who also tried to give employment and encouragement to black technicians . |
| 25 | These hijras are very bad and very dirty ladies , ’ he had said the first time I tried to give Razia a lift in his car . |
| 26 | We tried to give examples of the ways we could try to direct finance to help these sort of things happen . |
| 27 | However , the government 's spokesman on the Bill in its passage through the House of Lords , Lord Caithness , tried to give assurances that there was virtually no possibility that a local authority nor its librarians were in danger of falling foul of the Act by simply stocking homosexual material as part of the library service to the public . |
| 28 | He tried to give Sacco a cheerful look . |
| 29 | He tried to give comfort but it was difficult to find words after such a bizarre accident , except to explain what had happened . |
| 30 | Slowly Troy knelt to give Fanny Robin a gentle kiss . |