Example sentences of "gave [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an interview which he gave in this year , he expressed his disappointment at the recent development of English poetry and suggested that any " creative advance " would come in prose fiction or in poetic drama : this is clearly what he himself was aiming at , as if he felt he could achieve in drama what he had already achieved in poetry . |
| 2 | In an interview which he gave in this year , the reporter noted how he seemed much " heartier , more unworried and more unafraid of the world than he did … five years ago " . |
| 3 | We thank Ilana Machover , one of our qualified teachers , who is also qualified in the Alexander Technique , for the most interesting session she gave on this subject . |
| 4 | We thank Ilana Machover , one of our qualified teachers , who is also qualified in the Alexander Technique , for the most interesting session she gave on this subject . |
| 5 | What is most remarkable about the talks and lectures he gave on this trip is the extent to which America now revived in him the memories of his childhood . |
| 6 | The answer which Marx gave to this problem resembles that given later by Durkheim . |
| 7 | That eighteenth-century generals and governments were justified in the attention they gave to this problem is clear . |
| 8 | Doubtless the slow ‘ stately ’ motion of Jupiter in its orbit and its brightness were some of the reasons for which the Romans gave to this planet the name Jupiter , the Roman king of the gods . |
| 9 | The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published . |