Example sentences of "gave the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixsmith 's late strike gave the women 's side their first-ever Olympic medal . |
| 2 | He then gave the man 's name and address , the date of his arrest and details of the weapon ( a Schmeisser ) , including its serial number . |
| 3 | Doc Threadneedle stepped in , and gave the cowboy 's arm a wrench , setting the joint back in true . |
| 4 | Then an extraordinary chance gave the barber 's son the connections which he needed for preferment . |
| 5 | He suggested she should contact the father , Boyd Stych , and he gave the parents ' home telephone number , feeling that she would soon trace it anyway . |
| 6 | Rosheen gave the motorspeeder 's controls one last thump and gave up . |
| 7 | Edward IV now gave the girls ' wardship to the Stanleys , a family powerful enough to resist the Harringtons ' claims . |
| 8 | Edward IV now gave the girls ' wardship to the Stanleys , a family powerful enough to resist the Harringtons ' claims . |
| 9 | Exactly how many ‘ teeth ’ such a fish has to ‘ sink into the mild mannered moggy ’ is doubtful , but we bet it gave the cat 's foot a nasty suck … |
| 10 | Charles gave the girl 's name . |
| 11 | She gave the king 's son honey to eat , and played to him on a golden zither , whose strings she brushed with a silver feather . |
| 12 | And Hurworth 's Bay Horse pub landlord Ian Leonard gave the ship 's captain a photograph of the first HMS Hurworth , a destroyer sunk after striking a mine off Crete in 1943 . |
| 13 | In Sounds , the final round-up of the indie singles chart gave the band 's number one and two with ‘ What Difference Does It Make ’ and ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ respectively with three other singles ( if you count Sandie Shaw 's little effort ) in the top thirty . |
| 14 | The organ contributes for approximately half the orchestra in this work , which appropriately gave the RLPO 's wind section a deserved break . |
| 15 | In Quebec itself , the Liberal Party administration of Robert Bourassa on June 21 approved a bill which gave the province 's government the right to call an independence referendum if an acceptable constitutional reform offer was not devised by October 1992 . |
| 16 | It gave the infant 's presence the power of some furious Ancient Briton lying in the crib . |
| 17 | To ensure their proper fullness they are first blocked in with a broad contour-band ( the ‘ eighth-of-an-inch stripe ’ ) which gave the painter 's eye the sense of the background to come . |
| 18 | Rule 2(a) of the authority 's Rules of Management gave the schools ' Managers ( now , since the 1980 Education Act , called ‘ governors ’ ) responsibility for the ‘ oversight of the conduct of the curriculum of the school , in consultation with the headteacher ’ . |
| 19 | Handlebar 's bird , which was the lighter of the two , gave the Muslim 's bird a vicious switch across its forehead ; the darker bird responded by ripping at its rival 's throat . |
| 20 | But he gave the lion 's share of the credit for the victory to Snodin , playing his first full 90 minutes for two and a half years after a series of hamstring and knee injuries put his career in doubt . |