Example sentences of "gave all " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered that at his formal entry ( matriculation ) the praelector of the college gave all the new undergraduates advice on their deportment : ‘ If a Fellow asks you to lunch , leave at 2.15 p.m. ; unless the general conversation is particularly interesting when you may leave at 2.25 p.m . ’ |
| 2 | Rising share prices gave all shareholders a common interest ; now their interests have , to an extent , diverged . |
| 3 | ‘ And you did n't know he gave all her housekeeping money to the Druids — ‘ |
| 4 | After dinner the Colonel gave all the officers tasks , such as playing bridge , winding up the gramophone or reading suitable books . |
| 5 | Unfortunately all this marvellous technology was wasted because not long afterwards Boyce and Lee at TRW and Prime at GCHQ gave all the details to the Russians ( see Chapter 4 ) who , as happened with the 1955 Berlin Tunnel ( see Chapter 2 ) , proceeded to spoof Western intelligence for several years with false information . |
| 6 | She was now manager of Explorers Inn and gave all the new arrivals the same breezy , Californian smile of welcome . |
| 7 | Our negativity may have sent the fire brigade on strike , or even made them uncouple their hoses from that hydrant that gave all that lovely , cool life-giving water that would have quenched the fire and instead couple them to the nearest petrol tank . |
| 8 | In a long feature by its news editor , it gave all the facts about the neutron bomb and the conclusions to be drawn from them . |
| 9 | Charlemagne 's throne , which may still be seen in the basilica at Aachen , gave all the kings of western Europe sooner or later the idea of regarding a throne as an essential symbol of royal greatness . |
| 10 | Next day she gave the bag to the City Mission who gave all the clothes away ! |
| 11 | Jitters knew she was doing two people a favour , because Fat Juanita got depressed when the johnny-passing-throughs left her downstairs in the parlour with her knitting and gave all the custom to Gretchen , Connie Calzone , Margaret Running Deer and the Games Mistress . |
| 12 | BILLY RAY CYRUS : Some Gave All |
| 13 | I resisted the urge to retort with his curtness , ‘ Because he 's not sleepy ’ , and gave all the medical reasons I could think of . |
| 14 | Margaret gave all the credit to her Mr MacQueen . |
| 15 | Juan Atkins gave all the major Motor City movers their initial recording breaks — Anderson , May and Fowlkes were all released first on Metroplex . |
| 16 | In order that I could test a number of hypotheses , I gave all the British ( and a considerable number of other European and North American ) Moonies a 41-page questionnaire , and then I reproduced many of the questions in a 36-page questionnaire that was distributed to non-Moonies who were matched for age and social background with the Unification membership . |
| 17 | These include the abolition of selection at 12 years ( the age of transfer from primary to secondary in Scotland ) which gave all pupils formal access to certificate courses , and the raising of the school leaving age to 16 , which prevented pupils leaving school before the stage of first public examinations . |
| 18 | And more to the point he did n't disappear on a massive binge , and he gave all that money to his sister . |
| 19 | The two-parter was also fun as it gave all of us a chance to act in conflict and be a bit more expansive , because otherwise , if you think about it , all we were doing most of the time was feeding lines to other people . ’ |
| 20 | These women gave all their money they ha , they made , till the day they were married , they handed it over to their mothers . |
| 21 | You gave all the money to your mother , then , did you ? |
| 22 | You gave all this up to stay with me ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Look how I gave all that up for Bernard ! |
| 24 | In view of the level of initial interest shown in the Programme , a series of regional meetings was held ( in Spring 1985 ) which gave all those involved in locality research an opportunity to present papers based on their work . |
| 25 | But only one , the Jubilee Maternity Hospital in Belfast , gave all that was asked for willingly and promptly . |
| 26 | The new measures gave all shares equal rights , thus transferring control of the banks to the government . |
| 27 | A Kazakh government commission was sent to Leninsk , and gave all conscripts 10 days ' leave and extra food and cigarettes . |
| 28 | Matisse gave all his will |
| 29 | This shows an irony that although Saint Francis gave all he had to the needy , the church is spending its money on building magnificent and expensive structures instead of giving it to the poor . |
| 30 | You see , I gave all this information on disk . |