Example sentences of "to [pron] [pron] give [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To them he gave detailed care now as always : most had been with him for many years . |
| 2 | Thankfully , he found St Erconwald 's fairly deserted except for Watkin to whom he gave strict instructions about the custody of the church , and Ranulf the rat-catcher who had come to remind him of his promise that if a Guild of Rat-Catchers were founded , St Erconwald 's could be their chantry church . |
| 3 | It was this biotic aspect of human behaviour to which they gave special attention in trying to understand how populations and individuals adapted to one another and how this sorting process resulted in spatial distributions of social groups . |
| 4 | For it often happens that the things we take for granted are the very things that need most explaining , but to which we give least attention because we are barely conscious of them ourselves . |
| 5 | He considers that many occurrences of phenomena to which we give diverse names like UFOs , ghosts , will-o-the-wisps , and apparitions of various sorts , may all be manifestations of earth lights . |
| 6 | The central drives are those to which we gave considerable prominence at the start of this book , and are those associated with survival and identity , as well as with the preservation and expansion of family , kin and blood relations . |
| 7 | Bray now became a locally celebrated revivalist on his own account , labouring outside as well as within the Bible Christian denomination to which he gave lifelong allegiance , and built many chapels with his own hands . |
| 8 | As Derek caught her up , a possibility came into his mind to which he gave immediate voice . |
| 9 | And Balbindor , never having seen any movie , with the solitary exception of The Sound of Music ( to which he gave three stars ) , lacked a sense of drama . |
| 10 | They sent Respighi 's music , Pines of the Appian Way , marching through my head , to which I gave bass accompaniment with my hat . |
| 11 | We might find an account of what knowledge is which would suffice to undermine crucial sceptical moves , and hence confirm the possibility that some of our beliefs are justified ; the account to which I give tentative support in chapter 3 has pretensions in this direction . |