Example sentences of "[adv] gave [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This finding naturally gave the RTO some confidence in dealing with the arguments of the Claybury and Friern districts that they needed very large increases in revenue to fund community replacement services . |
| 2 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 3 | Jenna began awkwardly , and he suddenly gave a shout of laughter , vaulting the fence and then reaching to lift her over as if she weighed nothing at all . |
| 4 | But Malcolm suddenly gave the job to Chrissie instead Because , I suppose , she was older and more rock ‘ n ’ roll with her leather jackets , whereas I was still at school and pretty straight . |
| 5 | Aileen had read about multi-currency mortgages in the newspapers and so gave a specialist broker a call to find out more . |
| 6 | A ‘ penny wedding ’ was a marriage celebration , the equivalent of a modern wedding reception , at which the guests who could afford to do so gave a penny or other coin towards employing a fiddler to provide music for dancing . |
| 7 | Stephen Lazarević , Lazar 's successor , actually fought for Bayezid 's Turkish army at the battle of Ankara in 1402 when Timur defeated the Turks and so gave the Byzantines a half-century respite before the conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II in 1453 . |
| 8 | Sting and Peter Gabriel had committed themselves to the Amnesty world tour later that year so gave the June concerts a miss , and Simple Minds had already said yes to the Nelson Mandela birthday celebration the week before . |
| 9 | There was much to be said in favour of the view that it did , in respect that doing so gave the shopper control of the article and the capacity to exclude any other shopper from taking it . |
| 10 | He swore viciously , turned the mare a touch westward again , but that merely gave the pursuers a better angle to close on him . |
| 11 | This not only gave the masters an extra hour 's work but saved them having to pay the breakfast allowance of 1½d ( 0.6p ) . |
| 12 | Which only gave the Duchess a new detail to worry over : how would the orchestra leader know when to stop his men playing so that the pipers could begin ? |
| 13 | The language of the letter itself made her shiver — the ‘ we hereby , being the parents of one Oreste Romagnoli ’ , seemed so important and the ending , though it only gave the date of the document and names of the witnesses , truly portentous . |
| 14 | One possible explanation for China 's changed attitude is that previous protests only gave the Dalai publicity and made it look silly . |
| 15 | Jackson agreed , saying that a regulation only gave the illusion of application and that a directive ‘ gives national flexibility which is very necessary ’ . |
| 16 | Being made of metal obviously gave the designers a problem , how to isolate the Spectrum 's PCB from the case . |
| 17 | London Irish thought they 'd scored a try here … the ref tho rightly gave a knock on … and the cherry and whites rolled on to take the lead with a penalty from Martin Roberts … another penalty apiece made it six three to Gloucester at half-time … but they deserved more … the forwards were fired up but so too was the exiles defence which took a fair old hammering … the turning point came at the start of the second half when referee David Matthews awarded Gloucester a penalty try … |
| 18 | That , however , did not mean that the clause necessarily gave the sellers a valid defence because the clause still had to satisfy the recent legislation on exemption clauses ( see further , paragraph 10–21 below ) . |
| 19 | He appealed to most New Zealand judges simply because he made good use of the blindside , mixed up his passes and kicks and generally gave the impression that he could play the percentages very much in the New Zealand fashion . |
| 20 | Her dedicated persistence finally gave a delegation of East End working women the opportunity of themselves demanding the vote from the prime minister , H. H. Asquith ( later first Earl of Oxford and Asquith ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Sara finally gave the game away when she sat in front of her make-up mirror and started singing her own version of that song from Oklahoma ! — ‘ I 've got the dad in the morning and the son at night … ‘ . ’ |
| 22 | It somehow gave the impression that the fowl had led such a delightful and pleasurable existence that it was a positive act of virtue to eat it . |
| 23 | Beside her hovered Legion , in a multiplicity of bodies , all of which somehow gave the impression of looking directly at her . |
| 24 | Lepine had accompanied the cai who had lured him and his brother to the plantation eighteen months earlier , but despite the feeling of hatred the sight of him inspired Dong scarcely gave the recruiter a second glance . |
| 25 | It thus gave a framework for developing a system of accountability and for monitoring and reviewing the service provided to individual clients . |
| 26 | Sinclair thus gave an undertaking that his papers would always remain Unionist , but Steel-Maitland doubted if such a promise had any value . |
| 27 | Peter just gave a shrug . |
| 28 | I got married twenty three years ago in China , well , we just invite er , invited er our friends , and er former school mates to ma , to my home and we did n't make any vow , er we just gave a banquet to the friends , and er , in China people now can get married in many ways and er some foreigners have come to China to get married in a traditional Chinese way , and they have to er , carry their bride in a sedan chair . |
| 29 | They chopped a lot of cable into one inch pieces you see and just gave a bit of this out . |
| 30 | He said he just gave the driver an ‘ actor 's slap ’ to the face . |