Example sentences of "[vb past] give [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aimar promised to give no more help to his half-brothers of Angoulême and handed over his first — and third-born sons as hostages . |
| 2 | When the lone passenger rose to give a Scots woman his seat her husband pulled her back saying , ‘ Do n't you know who he is ? |
| 3 | Kevin Grogan and Sean Healy helped to give the young ‘ Cats ’ the midfield cream but their forwards were forced to work hard for their scores . |
| 4 | The dormer windows faced a high wall which hid railway storerooms and repair sheds , but the absence of dwellings on that side of Celtic Crescent helped to give the wider roadway an open aspect . |
| 5 | It was a small room , full of photographs , many in silver frames , which helped to give an Edwardian flavour to the general appearance . |
| 6 | In the light of the excessive technicality seen here , it is little wonder that Lord Wilberforce in Reardon Smith Line Ltd , and the House of Lords in Ashington Piggeries proposed giving a narrower scope to s13 , confining it to matters of identification . |
| 7 | A call yesterday involved giving the chatty female at the other end one 's address . |
| 8 | She 'd given a false name so he could n't trace her . |
| 9 | Driving on , he told Paula that Harry Butler was on the way , that he 'd given a brief description of Evelyn so Butler would recognize her , plus her address . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd given the best years of my life to television . |
| 11 | And you know , you always you er give , gave your number you see and er course some people I believe had an a I believe in later days they 'd given the older numbers out again , I do n't know wh you know , because some people that 've joined since me have got an older number , so I do n't know whether they 've given the ol they were sort of long since run out , you know . |
| 12 | Individual B -factors were then refined and 509 water molecules added to give a final R -factor of 15.7% for all data between 20Å and 2.8Å ( 32,020 reflections ) . |
| 13 | Juliet 's heart seemed to give a little flutter as she answered , ‘ Half-day . |
| 14 | This augmentation seemed to give the right behaviour on the texts that SPAR processed . |
| 15 | The meeting adjourned to give the 10-member planning committee time to consider Inkatha 's request , which was then rejected by the majority of negotiators . |
| 16 | At times he advised reverting to a lower potency if the higher potency aggravated ; at other times he advised giving a few doses of a partially similar remedy if any aggravation should occur ; he also suggested administering the remedy in liquid form , giving a few succussions before repeating ( the plus system ) . |
| 17 | Coolly Bunty turned to give a final look in the mirror ; then put her fingers to her lips and , as she passed Conroy , pressed them against his . |
| 18 | When he laughed , she turned to give a small smile . |
| 19 | I turned to give the small lady an outsize in winks , as though the whole thing was a conspiracy , which it was , and she was n't included , which she was n't . |
| 20 | One day he arrived to give a new-born filly post-foaling antibiotic and tetanus cover . |
| 21 | Nothing came of it in 1545 , though in June French troops arrived to give the Scots temporary assistance against the English . |
| 22 | I regret to say that I forgot to give the Vice Chairman 's apologies for non-attendance . |
| 23 | The most convenient needles for flushing oviducts are 30 gauge metal ones which have been cut and polished to give a straight ( not bevelled ) and smooth end . |
| 24 | The relatively cheap and rapid transportation it provided and the elasticity of capacity the companies boasted gave a powerful boost to the mass holiday-making industry . |
| 25 | When in January 1645 the French agreed to give the Dutch representatives the coveted title of " Excellency " this at once led to demands from the imperial electors that theirs must be given it also . |
| 26 | But the Panel seems to have concluded that it failed to give a true and fair view . |
| 27 | The Review Panel would have had to try to persuade the court that complying with FRED 1 failed to give a true and fair view , and it would have been presenting this argument at the same time that companies generally were being compelled to comply with FRS 3 ( a not fundamentally revised version of FRED 1 ) in order to give a true and fair view . |
| 28 | I enjoyed my politico-legal activities and sought to give the best service I could . |
| 29 | Each writer sought to give an overall biblical interpretation of his subject , but to do so in such a way as to be of practical value to modern Christians who found themselves perplexed by controversy on the subject . |
| 30 | Actually if you 've a complete number of repeats , it does n't matter too much whether it a full repeat or a half repeat at the edges , as both can be mattress stitched to give a continuous unbroken pattern effect . |