Example sentences of "[conj] gave [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the Royal College for the Blind at Hereford that gave him new inspiration by teaching him how to sculpt . |
| 2 | Though the business was thriving , there was one aspect that gave him great concern and over which he was powerless to exercise any sort of control . |
| 3 | Recently , TCS entered into an agreement with Lotus Development Corporation that gave them exclusive distribution rights for the whole range of Recently there was uproar in India following ‘ body shopping ’ by American software firms . |
| 4 | Before entering battle , the warriors stripped to breech-cloth and moccasins , some donning war-bonnets , then prepared their medicine bundles and applied sacred body paint to invoke the Wyakin medicine powers that gave them supernatural protection . |
| 5 | Poor dear Hugh 's face was somehow much less vivid than the tall hennins a married lady could wear , that gave her extra height . |
| 6 | Robyn thought as she glanced out of the window , re-reading the sign that gave her enormous satisfaction every time she had occasion to see it . |
| 7 | But the big news of the day that gave everyone sleepless nights was the Cuba Missile Crisis . |
| 8 | He played a leading role in the $5m deal with Morrow that gave his novel Whirlwind a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the recipient of the highest ever advance for a single work of fiction . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , it was British fears that began the process of creating a political group ( rather than a religious one ) , and British political tactics to safeguard their continued power that gave it national significance . |
| 10 | I recently had some bad news and everyone helped me through it and gave me great support . |
| 11 | ‘ At the hospital , the registrar said , ‘ No , it 's a sebaceous cyst , and we would n't normally operate , but since you are worried we 'll cut it out , ’ and gave me local anaesthetic . |
| 12 | Altogether , the tour gave the Indians maximum exposure to me and gave me maximum exposure to the ELT situation in India . |
| 13 | Sergeant licked Master 's face and hands and gave him playful nips on the arms . |
| 14 | Certain shareholders sold their shares to a take-over bidder , received the purchase price and gave him irrevocable proxies to vote on their behalf , but , in the light of the articles , transfers were not to be lodged for registration . |
| 15 | Even in Britain in the last years of the nineteenth century a high foreign office official had fairly frequent interviews , on the instructions of Lord Salisbury , the prime minister and foreign secretary , with Reuter 's agent in London and gave him selected information considered helpful to British policy . |
| 16 | The first gave him a degree of control over appointment to benefices in the Church ; the second referred certain cases to his court and gave him certain prerogative powers . |
| 17 | He did n't go to Mass , but it was said that the priests came down to him once a month and heard his confession and gave him Holy Communion . |
| 18 | There was little delegation of authority , but Di Tella 's personal participation enhanced his authority and gave him considerable control . |
| 19 | Maybe she tied him up and gave him soft whip . |
| 20 | When a boy arrived at Eton he was allocated to a " classical tutor " who oversaw his work and gave him special tuition . |
| 21 | The grandparents completely dominated the boy and gave him high levels of attention for his difficult behaviour . |
| 22 | The injury temporarily blinded one eye and gave him double vision in the other , but is now no more than a bruise , said his wife . |
| 23 | Leicester solved it just in time and produced a town that spilled widely across the surrounding fields and gave its working class bigger and better houses , and wider streets , than almost anywhere else in industrial England . |
| 24 | I then took all the cabinets and gave them deep-dish handles , plus I used the old logo from the early '50s and expanded it length-wise on a computer , to see how it looked . |
| 25 | Pieces of pine from apple cases became cricket bats , tennis rackets or hockey sticks and gave them endless hours of pleasure . |
| 26 | On the Etive slabs Rab and Chris Anderson climbed three lines on the section of slab some 70m right of the Coffin Stone , and gave them punny names as usual . |
| 27 | It was considered a treat to perform in Nehushtah 's chambers , despite her peculiar foreign ways , because she always showered the Ixmaritians with gifts and gave them delicious food and wine for refreshment . |
| 28 | When they returned to the centre Rachel and Nina applied light dressings to the scalds , then took the two ladies into the rest-room and gave them sweet tea to help them recover from shock . |
| 29 | He gathered his own men into a little bunch and gave them careful instructions . |
| 30 | The British Medical Association was founded in 1832 and the Medical Registration Act of 1858 granted doctors a monopoly on the practice of medicine and gave them important powers of self-government . |