Example sentences of "gave [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He gave me £50 for my wages . |
| 2 | But he gave me money for my boat , and for Xury , too . |
| 3 | Their sparring for position of least-favoured son gave me pause for thought . |
| 4 | When your editor asked what kind of tank I would set up if he gave me £250 for Christmas , it was , unfortunately , only a hypothetical question . |
| 5 | ‘ They gave me sandwiches for the journey , but I left them on my bunk . ’ |
| 6 | THE recent statement made by junior minister Baroness Cumberlege , implying that the Government would not object should doctors decide to withhold treatment from patients who refuse to stop smoking , gave me food for thought . |
| 7 | Allowing the 1 cm of fish per 3.5 litres of water ( 1″ of fish to 2 imperial gallons ) rule to apply gave me room for five small fish . |
| 8 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 9 | This gave them sympathy for the victims of the slave trade and slavery and , as the abolitionist John Bowring stressed , formed a strong bond of union between them . |
| 10 | These changes gave museums the right to retain what they earned , to privatise some of their services such as restaurants , publishing etc , and also gave them responsibility for the maintenance of their buildings . |
| 11 | In that too , they were alike : both of them had thoughts and feelings that few people gave them credit for or even suspected . |
| 12 | No satisfactory answer to this problem was forthcoming meantime , but at least the situation gave them time for the main Scots foot army to come up . |
| 13 | Just inside the front porch , a handwritten book is prefaced with the words ‘ This book has been compiled that something , more than their mere names , may be known of the Lavenham men who gave their lives for their country in the Great War . ’ |
| 14 | Some sort of stone memorial , at the place where they fell , to heroes who gave their lives for France , yes , the Bishop thinks that may be in order . |
| 15 | There are coats of arms all around the Chamber of hon. Members who gave their lives for peace in Europe . |
| 16 | That reconciliation was not Franco 's guiding principle was clear from the decree he had issued on 1 April 1939 ( the same day he had signed the final war bulletin ) , ordering that a monument be built " to perpetuate the memory of those who fell in the Crusade of Liberation " and to honour " those who gave their lives for God and the Fatherland " . |
| 17 | They gave their permission for his appointment at Huddersfield Town . |
| 18 | The Wessex Regional Transfusion Centre wishes to thank those members of the staff of AEA Technology who gave their blood for the benefit of others on Tuesday , 12 and Wednesday , 13 January 1993 . |
| 19 | ‘ She gave her life for her faith , ’ Mary said . |
| 20 | It gave her meat for now and to smoke for the winter , and a jacket , stinking but warm . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , if it 's sexual she has less discrimination than I gave her credit for . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I always thought Rose was deeper than you gave her credit for , ’ she says . |
| 23 | And she had obviously been right to guess that her assistant possessed more initiative than her current employer gave her credit for . |
| 24 | She had not had as many men as Karen gave her credit for , there was an element of blarney in all that , but there 'd been quite a number , had n't there ? |
| 25 | IRA bomber Rosena Brown was a better actress than anyone gave her credit for . |
| 26 | She is a keen skier and wears a jacket with skiers on the back which gave her inspiration for her design . |
| 27 | Jean also gave her thanks for generous donations to Leslie 's favourite charity , the Lord 's Taverners . |
| 28 | She gave her orders for the next week 's farm work and then turned to one of the men . |
| 29 | She gladly gave her blood for a substantial blood transfusion , and the patient was told after-wards by the doctor , ‘ You owe the fact that you are alive today to the crossing sweeper who first detected a movement in you when you were in the mortuary and then gave her blood for you . ’ |
| 30 | She gladly gave her blood for a substantial blood transfusion , and the patient was told after-wards by the doctor , ‘ You owe the fact that you are alive today to the crossing sweeper who first detected a movement in you when you were in the mortuary and then gave her blood for you . ’ |