Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] gave this " in BNC.
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| 1 | None more so than for four of the oldest surviving players to win Cup medals in the thirties — the Belfast Celtic quartet Sid McIlroy , Norman Kernaghan , Jimmy McAlinden and Harry Walker who gave this appropriate advice to young players — enjoy your football and not make money their God . |
| 2 | By happy chance I gave this a backdrop of an old hardy-hybrid rhododendron with mauve flowers , and underplanted it with ground-covering , spotted-leafed pulmonarias ( lungworts ) . |
| 3 | In the event it was not going to be Auguste who gave this information but Naseby 's own sergeant , who burst in with the news that the Cowes harbour master had telephoned to announce the arrival of the yacht Osborne with the Prince of Wales aboard . |
| 4 | The woman who gave this account thereafter changed her established way of life to become an activist in the Greenham Common protest against the siting there of cruise missiles . |
| 5 | This was only part of a general sort of pattern as it were , where people were beginning to impinge on their lives , there was another well-known local alcoholic there who was knocking on doors trying to get money off people , and there 's several elderly people who gave this woman money , because they were frightened that if they did n't something would happen to them . |
| 6 | That was quite a performance you gave this evening . ’ |
| 7 | They come into the theatre , it 's like our home , and they sit there saying , ‘ Oh , she 's absolutely not a Tatyana ’ , or ‘ Can you imagine what kind of leadership is in our theatre — who is the idiot who gave this lady the role of Aida ? ’ . |
| 8 | He was the only subject who gave this pattern of judgments . |
| 9 | for example , the Act says that governors are to be responsible for disciplinary procedures for staff , and a collective agreement which gave this function to the LEA could therefore not apply . |
| 10 | The next extracts provide some explanation of the social context which gave this distinction such a high profile . |
| 11 | After rubbing down and applying a one-step primer and undercoat we gave this set of drawers a modernist look by painting different sections in a variety of bright , matt colours . |