Example sentences of "[pron] gave the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as I gave the final push , my hand found a rope over the end of the ship . |
| 2 | That is the reason why I gave the Prime Minister prior notice of the question . |
| 3 | I gave the old trenchcoat a tap or two . |
| 4 | I gave the old man a tip , and soon Mrs M. and I were speeding back to Ballina . |
| 5 | I gave the old bag an ultimatum , either I picked the team or I would quit . |
| 6 | I gave the next sentence a great deal of lip and tongue work . |
| 7 | I gave the same seminar about the problems of the inflationary universe , just as in Moscow . |
| 8 | I think it was on that Sunday , but it may have been on the Sunday before , that I gave the last message from the Burma Broadcasting Service . |
| 9 | The Indian in charge of it had to do all the technical work himself , and I gave the short address that had been scheduled . |
| 10 | I can not really add to the answer that I gave the hon. Member for Birmingham , Erdington ( Mr. Corbett ) . |
| 11 | However , I gave the hon. Member a very good run yesterday , and the day before . |
| 12 | I withdraw the commendation that I gave the hon. Gentleman , but only because that is damaging his political career . |
| 13 | I gave the Select Committee an undertaking that I would consider the Hydrotechnica studies and the commentary produced by Cardiff Bay development corporation , and I shall do so . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's my own fault because I gave the main character the same birthday as me , so I 'd know how much he would be able to remember of his past . |
| 15 | I gave the pompous statuary a flick of the pink feathers as I went past . |
| 16 | Funnily enough , the one I gave the biggest chance to was Heist in the Festival Bumper but he finished second . |
| 17 | In serving this ideal , one feature which gave the new English its peculiar potency was the cultural mystique endowed upon it by a vision of the qualities seen as inherent in the national literature . |
| 18 | The country 's political atmosphere had become embittered as a result of the creation of the DLP , in January 1990 , through a merger of the then minority governing party and two of the three main opposition groups , which gave the new formation control of more than two-thirds of the seats in the 299-member National Assembly . |
| 19 | He took what comfort he could from France 's declaration of war on England on 4 March , followed by George II 's counter-declaration on the 29th , which gave the attempted invasion of his kingdom , not unreasonably , as a casus belli . |
| 20 | The process is simply to find the combination of variables which gave the best fit in the past and then to extrapolate the equation to make predictions . |
| 21 | It was Boyer who helped Coleridge to understand the subtle logic and ‘ fugitive causes ’ which gave the greatest poetry its power , and who taught the lesson , not immediately applied in Coleridge 's teenage work , that conventional metaphors and needless elaboration seldom made good verse : |
| 22 | In general , the area which gave the greatest cause for concern for its relative lack of attention to language issues was secondary PGCE courses at university level . |
| 23 | Prevalent among the emotions on view were : self-satisfaction amongst those who had received their C'est la Vie gift box , which included a baroque heart-shaped brooch estimated to be worth about £120 and , amongst those whose boxes had gone astray , resentment ( which gave the first group an opportunity for a bit of schadenfreude , which , emotionally speaking , is always a big hit ) . |
| 24 | In May 1412 a treaty ( that of Bourges ) was sealed between Henry IV and the dukes of Berry , Bourbon , and Orléans which gave the English king much of what his predecessors had spent years fighting for : a recognition that Aquitaine was rightfully English , and an undertaking to help the king defend it ; the cession of twenty important towns and castles ; and agreement that certain lands , notably Poitou , were to be held by them of the English crown , and would revert to it when the present holders died . |
| 25 | In many respects this was a return to the position of the very last years of the fourth century ; the establishment of arian kingdoms on Gallic soil had removed from the catholic bishops sole authority over the definition of the Christian community , and it was only the conversion of Clovis and the expansion of the Frankish kingdom which gave the ecclesiastical hierarchy the authority once more to define the Christian life for all the members of the State . |
| 26 | In the case of socialist parties , which gave the original impetus , the party was very largely an extension of an existing mass movement into the sphere of electoral politics , whereas conservative and liberal parties , which already had a strong representation in parliament and government , created their mass organization mainly from above , under the control of the parliamentary leaders . |
| 27 | In more recent times Sturridge was an innovator of the ‘ Jumbo bat ’ , a much heavier range of bat , which gave the stronger player the ability to hit the ball much further . |
| 28 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 29 | Violence erupted after Jonas Savimbi , leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( Unita ) , rejected the results of UN-supervised elections in September which gave the ruling MPLA party a victory . |
| 30 | So we used to sit and listen and try to work out what was going on , which gave the Lone Ranger even more mystery . |