Example sentences of "gave [noun prp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford old boy John Aldridge was looking for his 40th goal of the season … it came just two minutes after Durnin 's … and gave Aldridge the eclub record he was looking for . |
| 2 | What Scunthorpe managed last season Scarborough achieved despite the disappointment of seeing one of their most sustained periods of pressure relieved with the Steve Clarke goal which gave Chelsea the lead . |
| 3 | Jack Charlton gave Stewart the chance to star alongside Gazza and Peter Beardsley when he signed him for Newcastle from QPR . |
| 4 | This French visit gave Webb the idea of growing rape-seed for oil to dress cloth . |
| 5 | Germany 's position on the developmental ‘ gap ’ between East and West Europe , between the feudal and industrial worlds , meant that Germany was subject to fear of Western competition and envy of Western colonial markets ; the proximity of poorly developed lands to the East gave Germany the opportunity to rectify its lack of colonial holdings and to sink its internal problems in external conquest . |
| 6 | It gave Scarlet the impression that she had grown very old and from now on might just as well go round in her shroud . |
| 7 | He gave Kellerman the location . |
| 8 | Kilmarnock were unlucky in the first half when Gus McPherson hit the crossbar , but goals from Paul Harvey and Craig Flannigan after the break gave Clydebank the points . |
| 9 | He gave Stieber the number he was calling from , told him to call him back from outside . |
| 10 | This gave Ian the idea of setting up a similar , small-scale , homely establishment in the Highlands . |
| 11 | Neither writer gave McQueen the credit of his own history ; neither enquired into , or assessed , the status he might have had before the ‘ 45 Rebellion , in which he had participated , and by which he had most likely been reduced to keeping this crude but hospitable inn . |
| 12 | Armstrong gave Sunderland the lead after twelve minutes and Gabiadini increased their lead five minutes later . |
| 13 | Grimes 's pass gave Neal the opening goal with a remarkable reverse-stick shot . |
| 14 | It gave Patrick the feeling that their every move had been planned for them by Comrade Ceauŝescu himself . |
| 15 | ’ Its success gave Hardy the confidence to revive the manuscript of A Pair of Blue Eyes , put aside after the failure of Desperate Remedies , and embark on his first attempt at a serial , the form in which many 19th century novels originally appeared . |
| 16 | She said , " I gave Bert the money he gave you for your fine . " |
| 17 | Edward IV made a first attempt to remedy the situation within weeks of his brother 's sixteenth birthday , when he gave Richard the land of Robert lord Hungerford , lying mainly in Somerset and Wiltshire . |
| 18 | Edward IV made a first attempt to remedy the situation within weeks of his brother 's sixteenth birthday , when he gave Richard the land of Robert lord Hungerford , lying mainly in Somerset and Wiltshire . |
| 19 | Rather than punish him for the attempted rebellion , Henry gave Richard the task of quelling the very Aquitainian rebels from whom he had so recently looked for support . |
| 20 | That gave Arsenal the initiative and within seven minutes they went further ahead . |
| 21 | Paul Thorburn made it 8–10 with a penalty but two pieces of indiscipline gave Kelahar the chance to kick two more penalties . |
| 22 | a Scottish sailor marooned on the island of Juan Fernandez from 1704 until he was picked up by Captain Woodes Rogers 52 months later ; Woodes 's account of him gave Defoe the idea of Robinson Crusoe , and Cowper wrote a poem entitled ‘ Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk ’ , beginning ‘ I am monarch of all I survey ’ . |
| 23 | More important , it gave Mexico the breathing space it needed to tempt back flight capital and boost GDP growth . |
| 24 | I gave Rex the kind of nod you could tell your grandchildren about . |
| 25 | The expedition was a military failure , but it led to the treaty of Brétigny of May 1360 , which gave Edward the lands ceded to him in 1358 with a ransom reduced to 3,000,000 gold crowns . |
| 26 | The serious business of gaining an Oxford scholarship and some measure of financial independence had begun and , for a time , gave Edward the drive necessary to matriculate easily as a non-collegiate student at Oxford , to live in lodgings there , and to attend a full course of lectures to prepare himself for an entrance scholarship to Balliol , Merton , or Lincoln . |
| 27 | The 102nd Russian submarine fleet at Petropavlovsk has been alert ever since the international courts overruled the Soviet appeals and gave GenTech the right to conduct its surveys in the area . |
| 28 | The 1944 Education Act gave LEAs the right to inspect schools , indeed , some LEAs inherited inspectorates from the School Boards which preceded them . |
| 29 | Bitter anger gave Ruth the strength to speak . |
| 30 | The black-eyebrowed albatross was a frequent visitor to the Parsee , and gave Gould the chance to try out a crude but innovative experiment — one of the first attempts to tag and monitor a live sea bird . |